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 1448
Pin et rochers près des grottes au-dessus de Château Noir
c.1900
Alternate titles: Kiefer und Felsen oberhalb des Château Noir (Pin et rochers au-dessus de Château Noir); Le Rocher; Pin et rochers au Château Noir; Pine and Rocks near the Cave above Château Noir; Rocher
Rewald (W508); Venturi revised: 1895–99; Venturi (1041): 1895–1900
Graphite and watercolor on wove paper
18 1/8 x 14 in. (46 x 35.5 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Thos. Agnew & Sons, London, Water-Colour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, July 1936, no. 12?, as Le Rocher, lent by Mme Paul Guillaume.
Valentine [Dudensing] Gallery, New York, Cézanne watercolors, Renoir drawings, January 4–30, 1937, no. 23, as Rocher.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, April 2–20, 1963, no. 73, addendum to catalogue (dated 1895–1900), lent by The Art Museum, Princeton University.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, 19th and 20th Century French Drawings from the Art Museum, March 4–April 9, 1972, no. 14, ill., p.90.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, France, Cézanne: The Late Work, October 7, 1977–January 3, 1978, no. 87, ill., pl. 65, as Pine and Rocks near the Cave above Château Noir, c. 1900, lent by The Art Museum, Princeton University. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 26–March 19, 1978; Grand Palais, Paris, Cezanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978 (see Paris 1978a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues).
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 56, ill. in color, as Pin et rochers près des grottes au-dessus de Château Noir, lent by The Art Museum, Princeton University.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 65, ill., as Kiefer und Felsen oberhalb des Château Noir (Pin et rochers au-dessus de Château Noir), c. 1900, lent by The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton (Inv.-No. 41-166). Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, European Drawings from Neo-Classicism to Impressionism, December 4, 1990–January 6, 1991.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, Cézanne in the Collection of the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation and the Collection of Mrs. Rose Pearlman, February 1–April 5, 1992, Nineteenth-Century Pastels, Drawings, Watercolors (Complement to Cezanne Exhibition).
Acquavella Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, October 18–November 24, 1999, no. 12, ill.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 90, ill. lent by Princeton University Art Museum; shown in Washington only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, An Educated Eye: The Princeton University Art Museum Collection, January 22–June 15, 2008.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Landscapes Behind Cézanne, February 24–May 20, 2018.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings, March 7–June 14, 2020, fig. 23, as Pine and Rocks near the Cave above Château Noir, dated 1895–1900, shown in Princeton only. Traveled to: Royal Academy, London, July 12–October 18, 2020 (N.B. This venue was cancelled due to 2020 coronavirus).
Published References
Waldemar-George. Cézanne: Aquarelles. Paris: Editions des quatre chemins, 1926, pl. 2, collection A. Vollard.
Johnson, Erle Loran. "Cézanne's Country." The Arts 16, no. 8 (April 1930), pp. 536-37, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1041, ill. vol. II, as Pin et rochers au Château Noir.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 30.
Loran, Erle. Cézanne's Composition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943, pp. 116-17, pl. XXXIII (with photograph of the motif).
Rewald, John. "The Camera verifies Cézanne's watercolors." Art News (Sept. 1944), p. 18, ill.
Rewald, John. "Cézanne's Last Motifs at Aix." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 91, ill. (with photograph of the motif) and pl. 65.
Kelder, Diane. The Great Book of French Impressionism. New York: Abbeville Press, 1980, p. 422, ill.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 508, ill.
Bach, Friedrich Teja. "The Stake in the Pictorial Flesh: Disruptions in Cézanne's Oeuvre." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 67. fig. 7a, as Pine and Rocks near the Cave above Château Noir, Princeton University Art Museum.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 115 ill., photo of motif by John Rewald, p. 114.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 244, fig. 171.
Elderfield, John. "Excavations." In Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Exhibition catalogue, p. 33, fig. 23, as Pine and Rocks near the Cave above Château Noir, dated 1895–1900.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "Cezanne and Constructivism, Historiography." In Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 7.
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. "Pin et rochers près des grottes au-dessus de Château Noir, c.1900 (FWN 1448)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1490 (accessed on April 21, 2025).
