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 49
Le Village des pêcheurs à l'Estaque
1867–69 (possibly 1870)
Alternate titles: Fishing Village at L'Estaque; Paysage (l'Estaque); The Fisherman's Village of L'Estaque; Village de pêcheurs à l'Estaque
Rewald (134): 1867–69 (possibly 1870); Venturi revised: c.1870; Venturi (55): c.1870; Rivière: 1866 and 1868(?); Cooper: 1869–71; Ratcliffe: probably 1871
Oil on canvas
16 1/2 x 21 5/8 in. (42 x 55 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3345, peinture. paysage marine; au premier plan des bâtiments couverts de tuiles rouges, à l'horizon deux petits bateaux, 42 x 55 cm (100 frs)
Provenance
Private collection (November 1968)
Private collection, Philadelphia;
Exhibition History
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, no number, pl. 58, p. 232 (dated c. 1870), as Le Village des pêcheurs à l'Estaque, lent by Private collection.
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 17, ill. lent by Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Published References
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, pp. 197–98, listed.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 55, ill. vol. II, as Le Village des pêcheurs à l'Estaque.
Venturi, Lionello. "The Early Style of Cézanne and the Post-Impressionists." Parnassus 9, no. 3 (March 1937), pp. 15–18.
Rewald, John. "Paul Cézanne: New Documents for the Years 1870–71." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 74, no. 433 (April 1939), pl. II fig. B, as Fishing Village at L'Estaque, c. 1871.
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 28 (erroneously designated as having once belonged to Emile Zola).
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1946, p. 211, ill.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 249, ill.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, p. 197, fig. 105.
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 134, ill. vol. 2, as Le Village des pêcheurs à l'Estaque.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 110, 199, fig. 3.7, as Le Village des pêcheurs à l'Estaque.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 10, ill., contemporary photo of motif, p. 11, as Le Village des pêcheurs à l'Estaque.
Serrano, Véronique. "Cézanne's L'Estaque: Something More Secret." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 128–29, fig. 8, as Le Village des pêcheurs à l'Estaque.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 42; vol. 2, p. 50, as Le Village des pêcheurs à l'Estaque, dated c. 1870.
Elderfield, John. "Picasso's Extreme Cézanne." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 232, pl. 58, as The Fisherman's Village of L'Estaque, dated c. 1870.
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Estaque, Art et Patrimoine, Chronique d'une double histoire. Gémenos: Groupe Horizon, 2013, p. 158, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 66, fig. 12a, with color photo of motif, fig. 12b, as Le Village des pêcheurs à l'Estaque, dated c.1870.
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Oeuvre de Cezanne à L'Estaque, Huiles – Aquarelles – Dessins, 1864–1885. Marseille: Éditions Gaussen, 2019, fig. 13 (discussion p. 18), as Village de pêcheurs à l'Estaque.
Blanc, Geneviève. Et si L'Estaque m'était contée? [privately published], 2020, p. 148, ill. with close-up photo of the church today.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 130, ill., as Paysage (l'Estaque).
Elderfield John, et al. Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Exhibition catalogue, p. 71, fig. 49, as The Fisherman's Village of L'Estaque.
Nagaï, Takanori. Truth in Panting: The Meaning of Cezanne's Practices for Modernizing Society. Tokyo: Sangesha Publishers Inc., 2022, pl. 1.
Record last updated April 28, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Village des pêcheurs à l'Estaque, 1867–69 (possibly 1870) (FWN 49)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=144 (accessed on July 5, 2025).
