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Catalogue entry

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)
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Dr. Lothar Mohrenwitz, Paris
Mayor Gallery, London
Hans Halban, Oxford
Justin K. Thannhauser, New York
Otto Wertheimer, Paris
Marlborough Gallery, Rome
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome (stolen in 1992 and not recovered)
Exhibition History
1946c London and traveling
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 1961
Bucarelli, Palma. "Un'opera di Paul Cézanne nella Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna." Bolletino d'Arte XLVI (July-September 1961), p. 255, ill.
Bucarelli 1963
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 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 458, 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. 117, fig. 9, as Les Gorges de l'Areuse près de Neuchâtel (with contemporary photograph of motif).
Notes

The site was identified by Raymond Hurtu.

Les Gorges de l'Areuse près de Neuchâtel, 1890 (FWN 1253). Postcard view of the Gorges de l'Areuse. Courtesy of Raymond Hurtu
Postcard view of the Gorges de l'Areuse. Courtesy of Raymond Hurtu

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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).