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 358
Château Noir
c.1904
Alternate titles: Het huis genaamd le Château Noir; Le Château Noir
Rewald (919): c.1904; Venturi revised: 1902–6; Venturi (797): 1904–6; Cooper: c.1905; Gowing: c.1905 (Edingurgh); Reff: c.1904 (MoMA); Other: Novotny: c.1904
Oil on canvas
27 5/8 x 31 1/2 in. (70 x 80 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 359 and 559, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Château Noir 1901
Private collection
Provenance
Exhibition History
National Gallery, London, Nineteenth Century French Painting, December 11, 1942–January 17, 1943, no. 66, as Le Château noir, c. 1905, lent by Lady Clark.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Landscape in French Art, 1550–1900, December 10, 1949–March 5, 1950, no. 305, ill. no. 59 in Book of Illustrations, as Le Château Noir, lent by Lady Clark, c. 1904-6.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Het Franse Landschap, von Poussin tot Cézanne, March 18–June 4, 1951, no. 14, c. 1904/6, as Het huis genaamd le Château Noir, lent by Lady Clark, London.
Tate Gallery, London, XXth century masterpieces : an exhibition of paintings and sculpture, July 15–August 17, 1952, no. 10, as Le Château noir, lent by Lady Clark.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 64, pl. XVI, as Le Château Noir, c. 1905, lent by Sir Kenneth Clark. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 65, ill. lent by K. Clark.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 65, lent by K. Clark.
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. 50, pl. 55. 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. 53, ill.
Tate, London, Kenneth Clark Looking for Civilisation, May 19–August 10, 2014, no. 228, pp. 42-43, pl.14, lent by Private collection.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 129, ill. catalogued, but not shown. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 797, ill. vol. II, as Château Noir.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 56.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 6.
Lindsey, Véra and Koerfer, Christina. Auge und Vision - Die Sammlung Jacques Koerfer. Basel: Werner & Bischoff, 1972, no. 24.
Gasser, Manuel. "Bilder aus einer Privatsammlung." Du 34, no. 12 (December 1974), p. 19, ill.
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 67, ill. in color.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 111, fig. 84, with photograph of the motif, fig. 83, as Le Château Noir.
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 919, ill. vol. 2, as Château Noir.
Koerfer, Thomas. The Jacques Koerfer Collection. England: Christie's International Media Divison, 1999, p. 27.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 113, ill. with photo of motif (c. 1935), p. 112, as Château Noir.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 328; vol. 2, p. 219, as Château Noir.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 188, fig. 71b, with black and white photo of motif, p. 187, fig. 71a, as Château Noir.
Record last updated October 6, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Château Noir, c.1904 (FWN 358)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=16 (accessed on April 19, 2024).
