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 1368
La Citerne au parc de Château Noir
1895–1900
Alternate titles: Citerne au parc de Château Noir; La citerne au parc du Château Noir; Sous-bois; Zisterne im Park des Château Noir (Citerne dans le parc de Château Noir)
Rewald (W425); Venturi revised: 1895–1900; Venturi (1546): 1895–1900
Graphite and watercolor on wove paper
19 15/16 x 17 1/16 in. (50.6 x 43.4 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Fine Arts Associates [Otto Gerson], New York, Cézanne: Rarely Shown Works, November 10–29, 1952, [W] 10, ill. formerly Ambroise Vollard, Paris; lent by Mr. Henry Pearlman.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 4–August 4, 1953, no. 44, as La citerne au parc du Château Noir, 1895-1900, lent by Henry Pearlman, New York. Traveled to: Musée Masséna, Nice, France, August 8–September 12, 1953; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble, France, September 15–October 18, 1953.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 76.
Fine Arts Associates [Otto Gerson], New York, Cezanne Watercolors, January 30–February 18, 1956, no. 19, ill. lent by Henry Pearlman collection.
The Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, Anonymous Collection [Pearlman Collection], July–September 1958, no. 22 (exhibition titled Anonymous Collection).
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Drawings, Watercolors and Oils by Paul Cézanne, Lent by an Anonymous Collector, July 1–September 1, 1959, no. 11.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, A loan exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors and Sculpture from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman for the benefit of Greenwich House, January 27–February 21, 1959, no. 26, ill. in b/w, as Citerne au parc de Château Noir, 1895-1900.
University of Minnesota Gallery, Minneapolis, The Nineteenth Century: One Hundred Twenty-five Master Drawings, March 26–April 23, 1962, no. 16. Traveled to: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, May 15–July 1, 1962.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, April 2–20, 1963, no. 45, pl. XXXVI, as Citerne au parc de Château Noir, 1895-1900, lent by mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, New York.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Cézanne and Structure in Modern Painting, June–August 1963, no no.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, The Pearlman Collection, May 22–October 15, 1964, no. 8.
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York, Watercolors by Paul Cézanne from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, 1965, no. 3.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Cézanne and His Contemporaries: The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman Collection, June 14–October 1, 1967, no. 12.
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, Cézanne watercolors, November 10–December 10, 1967, no. 27.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Collects, July 3–September 2, 1968, no. 10.
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Expressionism: The Mr. & Mrs. Henry Pearlman Collection of Works, June 10–October 4, 1970, no. 14.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, hors catalogue, shown in Boston only. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Summer Loan 1971: Paintings from New York Collections: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman and the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, July 13–September 7, 1971, no. 11.
Paul Rosenberg & Co, New York, Sixteen watercolors by Cezanne on loan from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, October 16–November 16, 1973, no. 6.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, Paintings, Watercolors, Sculptures and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, May 22–September 29, 1974, no. 34, ill. Traveled to: Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, December 8, 1974–March 14, 1975; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, April 13–August 31, 1975; Francine and Sterling Clark Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, September 26, 1975–February 22, 1976; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, April 6–May 30, 1976.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 61, ill., as Zisterne im Park des Château Noir (Citerne dans le parc de Château Noir), 1895-1900, lent by Mrs. Henry Pearlman, New York. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 78, ill., as La citerne au parc du Château Noir, 1895-1900, lent by The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation.
Acquavella Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, October 18–November 24, 1999, no. 10, ill.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Cézanne in focus : watercolors from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection, October 19, 2002–January 12, 2003, no. 6, ill.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 105, ill. lent by Pearlman Foundation; shown in Washington only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection, March 13–June 22, 2014, no. 11, ill. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, July 11–October 5, 2014; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, October 25, 2014–January 11, 2015; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, February 7–May 18, 2015; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, September 12, 2015–January 3, 2016.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 172, Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation.
Published References
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 14.
Chanin, A.L. "The Henry Pearlman Collection." Connoisseur 145, no. 586 (June 1960), pp. 233, ill. p. 235.
Andersen, Wayne V. "Watercolor in Cézanne's Artist Process." Art International 7 (May 25, 1963), p. 27, ill.
[Portfolio of] Watercolors by Cézanne from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman. Utica, 1965.
[Portfolio of] Watercolors by Cézanne from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman. Utica: Munson-William-Proctor Institute, 1972.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 425, ill.
Simms, Matthew. "Cézanne, Painting, and Harmony." In Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 142, fig. 91 (cat. 11).
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 204, fig. 142.
Record last updated May 17, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Citerne au parc de Château Noir, 1895–1900 (FWN 1368)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1407 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
