The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
FWN 1519
Le Pont des Trois Sautets
1906
Alternate titles: De rivier bij de Pont des Trois Sautets; La rivière au Pont des Trois Sautets; The Bridge of Trois-Sautes; The River at the Bridge of Trois Sautets
Rewald: (W644); Venturi revised: 1906; Venturi: (1076) 1906; Ratcliffe: possibly August 1906
Graphite and watercolor on paper
16 1/16 x 21 3/8 in. (40.8 x 54.3 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, The Two Sides of the Medal: French painting from Gèrôme to Gauguin, September 28–October 31, 1954, extended until November 11, no. 104, as The River at the Bridge of Trois Sautets.
Milwaukee Art Institute, Milwaukee, Inaugural Exhibition, September 12–October 20, 1957, no. 60, ill.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, De Clouet a Matisse: dessins français des collection américaines, 1958–59, no. 156, pl. 175, as La rivière au Pont des Trois Sautets, 1906, lent by The Cincinnati Art Museum.
Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Van Clouet tot Matisse: tentoonstelling van franse tekeningen uit amerikaanse collecties, July 31–September 28, 1958, no. 156, pl. 160, as De rivier bij de Pont des Trois Sautets. Traveled to: Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris, October 1958–January 1959; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 3–March 15, 1959.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 85, ill.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse, February 3–March 15, 1959, no. 156, ill., pl.160, as The River at the Bridge of Trois Sautets.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, April 2–20, 1963, no. 71, pl. LXVIII, as Le Pont des Trois Sautets, 1906, lent by Cincinnati Art Museum.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C, Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 64, ill. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
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. 115, ill., pl. 113, as Le Pont des Trois Sautets, c. 1906, lent by Cincinnati Art Museum. 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.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 77, ill. in b/w, as Le Pont des Trois Sautets, c. 1906, lent by Cincinnati Art Museum.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 82, ill., as Le Pont des Trois Sautets, 1906, lent by Cincinnati Art Museum.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 130, ill. lent by Cincinnati Art Museum; shown in Washington only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 191, Cincinnati Art Museum.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 137, ill. shown in Chicago only. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 204.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 246.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1076, ill. vol. II, as La rivière au Pont des Trois Sautets.
Loran, Erle. Cézanne's Composition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943, p. 112, pl. XXV (with photograph of the motif).
Johnson, Ellen. "Cézanne and a Pine Tree." Bulletin of the Allen Memorial Art Museum 21, no. 1 (Fall 1963), p. 20.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 159, ill.
Gowing, Lawrence. "The Logic of Organized Sensations." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 69, 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. 104, ill. (with photograph of the motif) and pl. 113.
Spangenberg, K. French Drawings, Watercolors, and Pastels, 1800-1950: a catalogue raisonné of the collection. Cincinnati: Cincinnati Art Museum, 1978, no. 22, ill., as The Bridge of Trois-Sautes, c. 1906.
Leymarie, Jean and Monnier, Geneviève and Rose, Bernice. Le Dessin. Geneva: Éditions d'Art Albert Skira, 1979, p. 198, ill.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 644, ill.
Coutagne, Denis. "Les paysages." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 20.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 174.
Shiff, Richard. "Mark, Motif, Materiality." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 103, fig. 6.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 55, ill., two photos of motif by Henry Ely and Pavel Machotka, p. 54.
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. Études cézanniennes. Paris: Flammarion, 2006, p. 39, fig. 11.
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 188, fig. 142.
Cézanne, Paul. The Letters of Paul Cézanne. Edited and translated by Alex Danchev. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson; Getty Publications, 2013, p. 368, ill.
Smith, Paul. "Cézanne's 'Primitive' Perspective, or the 'View from Everywhere.'" The Art Bulletin 95, no. 1 (March 2013), fig. 2.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 204, fig. 76a, with color photo of motif, fig. 76b, as Le Pont des Trois Sautets.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 259, fig. 185.
Nagaï, Takanori. Truth in Panting: The Meaning of Cezanne's Practices for Modernizing Society. Tokyo: Sangesha Publishers Inc., 2022, pl. 13.
Record last updated December 6, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. "Le Pont des Trois Sautets, 1906 (FWN 1519)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1627 (accessed on June 5, 2023).
