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 1253
Les Gorges de l'Areuse près de Neuchâtel
1890
Alternate titles: Rochers et passage (Fontainebleau ?); Sentiero tra le rocce; The Ravine
Rewald (W458): 1895–1900; Venturi revised: 1895–1900
Watercolor on paper
13 3/16 x 20 1/16 in. (33.5 x 51 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Tate Gallery, London, Paul Cézanne: an Exhibition of Watercolours, opening on April 10, 1946, no. 12, as The Ravine, c. 1885, lent by Dr. Lothar Mohrenwitz. Traveled to: Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, United Kingdom, May–June 1946; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom, July 1946.
Published References
Bucarelli, Palma. "Un'opera di Paul Cézanne nella Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna." Bolletino d'Arte XLVI (July-September 1961), p. 255, ill.
Bucarelli, Palma. "Acquisti della Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna." Musei e Gallerie d'Italia 8, no. 21 (Sep–Dec. 1963), p. 12, ill. p. 15, as Sentiero tra le rocce.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 458, 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. 117, fig. 9, as Les Gorges de l'Areuse près de Neuchâtel (with contemporary photograph of motif).
Record last updated January 6, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Les Gorges de l'Areuse près de Neuchâtel, 1890 (FWN 1253)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1440 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
