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 1434
Chemin, arbres et murs
c.1900
Alternate titles: La route sous les arbres; Overhanging trees in the forest; Route en Provence
Rewald (W507); Venturi revised: 1895–1900
Watercolor wove paper
18 3/4 x 12 3/8 in. (47.6 x 31.4 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Paul Cassirer Ltd, London, Paul Cézanne – Water Colours, July 1939, no. 36, as Overhanging trees in the forest, dated 1890, Exhibited for the first time. Lent by Private collection.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, The E.M. Remarque Collection, November 23, 1942–July 26, 1943, no number listed.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Remarque Collection, October 18–November 13, 1943, no. 44, as Route en Provence.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 79, as La route sous les arbres, 1895-1900, lent by E.M. Remarque.
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 77, ill. lent by E. M. Remarque, Ascona.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 101, ill. c. 1900, lent by E. M. Remarque, Ascona.
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Expressionism: The Mr. & Mrs. Henry Pearlman Collection of Works, June 10–October 4, 1970, no. 22.
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. 14.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Cézanne Watercolors from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, April 14–September 30, 1972, no number listed.
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. 5, ill.
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. 40, 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.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, Cézanne Watercolors and Prints, September 25–October 16, 1977, no number listed.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, Cézanne Watercolors from the Pearlman Collection, April 21–June 24, 1981, no number listed.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, and Prints from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation and the Collection of Mrs. Rose Pearlman, September 22–November 4, 1984, no number listed.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 32, ill., as Chemin, arbres et murs, c. 1900, lent by The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation.
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. 8, ill.
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. 14, 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.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Landscapes Behind Cézanne, February 24–May 20, 2018.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 150, Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation.
Published References
[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. 507, ill.
Schneider, Thomas F. and Inge Jaehner, eds. Remarques Impressionisten: Kunstsammeln und Kunsthandel im Exil / Remarque's Impressionists: Art Collecting and Art Dealing in Exile. Göttingen and Bristol: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013, pp. 208-09, no. 18, ill.
Simms, Matthew. "Painting on Drawing and Cézanne's Watercolors." 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. 158, fig. 100 (cat. 14).
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Record last updated May 1, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Chemin, arbres et murs, c.1900 (FWN 1434)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1489 (accessed on March 15, 2025).
