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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)
Catalogue entry
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
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Josse and Gaston Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (1912);
Jean and Henry Dauberville, Paris;
Sotheby's, London, April 7, 1976, no. 110, ill.
Private collection, Japan;
Christie's, New York, November 13, 2021, no. 505
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
Exhibition History
1956 Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cezanne Aquarelliste, October 13–November 8, 1956.1960 Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune-Dauberville, Paris, Cézanne – Aquarelliste et Peintre, May–July 1960, no. 10, as Le vieux château, c. 1888.1966e Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cent ans d'aquarelle, 1860-1960, June–July 1966, no. 14, as Le château de Montgeroult, dated c. 1888.1971 Paris
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, 1899.1999–2000 Yokohama and traveling
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, 2000.2002 Rome
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni, March 7–July 7, 2002, listed p. 178, ill. lent by Private collection, Tokyo.2021–22 Budapest
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 919, ill. vol. II, as Église de village.Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 345, ill.Hurtu 2013
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 2020
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.
Vintage postcard. The site was identified by Raymond Hurtu
Postcard view of Colombier. Courtesy Alain Mothe.
Related work
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 April 25, 2024).
