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Catalogue entry

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)

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Adolphe Tavernier, Paris;
Tavernier Collection, Galerie G. Petit, Paris, Mar. 6, 1900, no. 11
Eugène Blot, Paris;
Blot Collection, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 9–10,1900, no. 21
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (Dec. 14, 1910)
Auguste Pellerin, Paris (December 15, 1910);
Jean-Victor Pellerin, Paris
Wildenstein Galleries, New York
Private collection (November 1968)
Christie's, London, June 24, 2008, no. 48, ill.
Private collection, Philadelphia;
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (promised gift of Barbara B. and Theodore Aronson)
Exhibition History
2009 Philadelphia
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.
2017 Martigny
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 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, pp. 197–98, listed.
Raynal 1936
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. XXXIV p. 63.
Venturi 1936b
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.
Rewald 1936e
Rewald, John. Cézanne et Zola. Paris: Editions A. Sedrowski, 1936, fig. 24.
Venturi 1937
Venturi, Lionello. "The Early Style of Cézanne and the Post-Impressionists." Parnassus 9, no. 3 (March 1937), pp. 15–18.
Rewald 1939b
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 1939c
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 1946
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1946, p. 211, ill.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 28, listed pp. 146-147.
Rewald 1948b
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, fig. 34.
Rewald 1950a
Rewald, John. Cézanne. London: Phoenix House, 1950, fig. 24.
Badt 1956
Badt, Kurt. Die Kunst Cézannes. Munich: Prestel, 1956, pl. 28.
Rewald 1961
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 249, ill.
Brion 1971
Brion, Marcel. Cézanne. Milan: Fratelli Fabbri, 1971, ill. p. 28.
Rewald 1986b
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 89, ill.
Lewis 1989
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, p. 197, fig. 105.
Rewald 1996
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 2003
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 2005
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 2006
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 2008
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 2009
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 2013
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Estaque, Art et Patrimoine, Chronique d'une double histoire. Gémenos: Groupe Horizon, 2013, p. 158, ill.
Machotka 2014
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 2019
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 2020
Blanc, Geneviève. Et si L'Estaque m'était contée? [privately published], 2020, p. 148, ill. with close-up photo of the church today.
Dauberville 2020
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 et al 2020
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 2022a
Nagaï, Takanori. Truth in Panting: The Meaning of Cezanne's Practices for Modernizing Society. Tokyo: Sangesha Publishers Inc., 2022, pl. 1.
Le Village des pêcheurs à l'Estaque, 1867–69 (possibly 1870) (FWN 49). Site identified by Xavier Prati and Georges Reynaud.
Site identified by Xavier Prati and Georges Reynaud.
Photo: Pavel Machotka, 1999; © Courtesy Pavel Machotka Archive
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 March 28, 2024).