The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
(Formerly directed by Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash)
FWN 1254
Vue du château Colombier
1890
Alternate titles: Église de village; La Château de Colombier (Suisse); Le château de Montgeroult; Le Château de Montgeroult or Le vieux château; Le vieux château
Rewald (W345); Venturi revised: c.1898; Venturi (919): c.1888
Graphite and watercolor on paper
13 9/16 x 20 1/4 in. (34.5 x 51.5 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cezanne Aquarelliste, October 13–November 8, 1956.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune-Dauberville, Paris, Cézanne – Aquarelliste et Peintre, May–July 1960, no. 10, as Le vieux château, c. 1888.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cent ans d'aquarelle, 1860-1960, June–July 1966, no. 14, as Le château de Montgeroult, dated c. 1888.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Aquarelles de Cézanne: au profit de la fondation des journalistes, January 12–March 13, 1971, no. 16, as Le vieux château, 1899.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 43, ill., as Le vieux château. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni, March 7–July 7, 2002, listed p. 178, ill. lent by Private collection, Tokyo.
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary, Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction, October 28, 2021–February 13, 2022, hors catalogue, shown in February 2022.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 919, ill. vol. II, as Église de village.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 345, ill.
Hurtu, Raymond. "Quand Cézanne vient peindre au pays de Courbet." In Courbet/Cézanne: La vérité en peinture. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 114, fig. 5, as Vue du château Colombier (with vintage postcard of motif).
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 306, ill., as Le Château de Montgeroult or Le vieux château.
Record last updated August 18, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Vue du château Colombier, 1890 (FWN 1254)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1326 (accessed on May 21, 2025).
