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 1424
Villa au bord de l'eau, II
c.1898
Alternate titles: House at the Water's Edge; House beside the Water; La Maison au cyprès; Maison au bord de l'eau; Maison et cyprès
Rewald (W540); Venturi revised: 1895–1900; Venturi (1551): 1890–1900
Graphite and watercolor on paper; the sheet was torn into four parts and subsequently reassembled and pasted on board
12 3/8 x 18 9/16 in. (31.4 x 47.2 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Thos. Agnew & Sons, London, Water-Colour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, July 1936, no. 28, as La Maison au cyprès, lent by Mme Paul Guilluame.
Valentine [Dudensing] Gallery, New York, Cézanne watercolors, Renoir drawings, January 4–30, 1937, no. 21, as Maison et cyprès.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 46, as Maison au bord de l'eau, 1890-1900, lent by Valentine [Dudensing] Gallery - probably on consignment from Vollard.
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. 99, ill., pl. 106, as House beside the Water, 1900-04, lent by Private collection, Basel. 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. 75, ill. in b/w, as Maison au bord de l'eau, c. 1898, lent by Private collection, Basel.
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 67, ill. in color, as House beside the Water, lent by Private collection.
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne und die Moderne, October 10, 1999–January 9, 2000, no. 25, ill. in color, p. 35, as Villa au bord de l'eau, II, c. 1898, lent by Private collection, Switzerland.
Published References
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 540, 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. 63, fig. 1, as House at the Water's Edge, Private collection.
Affinité Elective, Wahlverwandschaft, Die Sammlung Esther Grether. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2013, p. 94, ill. in color, as Maison au bord de l'eau.
Stremmel, Kerstin. Affinité Elective; Wahlverwandschaft. Die Sammlung Esther Grether. Ostefildern: Hatje Cantz, 2013, p. 94, ill.
Haldemann, Anita (ed.). The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas. Basel: Prestel, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, no. 177, ill. p. 210.
Chédeville, François, and Raymond Hurtu. "Cezanne sur les bords de Marne." Société Cezanne, August 2021, fig. 223.
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Record last updated February 20, 2024. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Villa au bord de l'eau, II, c.1898 (FWN 1424), ; the sheet was torn into four parts and subsequently reassembled and pasted on board." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1522 (accessed on May 1, 2025).