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 53
La Neige fondue à l'Estaque – Les Toits rouges
c.1870
Alternate titles: Die roten Dächer; La Neige fondante à l'Estaque; La neige fondante ou Les toits rouges; La Neige fondue; La Neige fondue à L'Estaque; Les Toits rouges; Maisons vers les fours à chaux, à l'Estaque; Melting Snow at L'Estaque; Paysage (le neige fondue à l'Estaque); Schneeschmelze in L'Estaque; The Thaw in L'Estaque or The Red Roofs; Winter Landscape; Winterlandschaft
Rewald (157): c.1870; Venturi revised: c.1870; Venturi (51): c.1870; Rivière: 1870; Vollard: 1870 (1914) and c.1865 (1931); Cooper: (Bührle): 1870–71; Ratcliffe: beginning of 1870
Oil on canvas
28 11/16 x 36 3/16 in. (73 x 92 cm)
Private collection
Provenance
Hortense Anda-Bührle, Zurich (1960);
Private collection (2014)
Exhibition History
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, L'Impressionnisme, June 15–September 29, 1935, no. 11, as La Neige fondue, lent by J.V. Pellerin.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 13, as La Neige fondante à l'Estaque, lent by Pellerin.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Honderd jaar Fransche kunst, July 2–September 25, 1938, no. 4, ill., as La Neige fondante à l'Estaque, lent by Pellerin.
Palais du Prince Paul, Belgrade, Serbia, La Peinture française au XIXe siècle, March–April 1939, no. 4, as La Neige fondue à L'Estaque, lent by Pellerin, Paris.
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 9, pl. III, lent by Pellerin.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 11, lent by Pellerin.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 4, ill. lent by Wildenstein.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 13, ill. lent by Wildenstein. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, Französische Malerei von Manet bis Matisse aus der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle / Zürich, October 5–November 23, 1958, no. 6, ill., as Schneeschmelze in L'Estaque, 1870/71.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Hauptwerke der Sammlung E.G. Bührle, December 1958–February 1959, no. 13.
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Masterpieces of French Painting from the Bührle Collection, August 19–September 17, 1961, no. 31, ill., p. 18b. Traveled to: National Gallery, London, 1961.
Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany, Wegbereiter der modernen Malerei: Cézanne, Gauguin, van Gogh, Seurat, May 4–July 14, 1963, no. 3, pl. 11, as Schneeschmelze in L'Estaque, 1870-71, lent by Bührle, Zurich.
Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland, Sammlung Emil Georg Bühle: Französische Meister von Delacroix bis Matisse, August–October 1963, no. 32.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., The Passionate Eye: Impressionist and Other Master Paintings from the Collection of Emil G. Bührle, Zürich, May 6–July 15, 1990, no. 38, ill., as The Thaw in L'Estaque or The Red Roofs, lent by Private collection. Traveled to: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, August 3–October 14, 1990; Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, November 2, 1990–January 13, 1991; Royal Academy of Arts, London, February 1–April 9, 1991.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 8, ill.
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Cézanne: Aufbruch in die Moderne, September 18, 2004–January 16, 2005, listed p. 231, ill. p. 118, as La Neige fondue à l'Estaque – Les Toits rouges.
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 15, ill. lent by Private collection.
Published References
Royère, Jean. "Paul Cézanne, Erinnerungen." Kunst und Künstler 10, no. 10 (1912), ill. p. 482, as Winterlandschaft.
"A Private Collection in Germany That Contains Fourteen Examples of the Art of Paul Cezanne, a Great Modern, Who Already Is Placed with the Old Masters, in Darmstadt." New York Times, July 6, 1913, ill. p. 15, as Winter Landscape.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 99.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 114, as Die roten Dächer, 1870.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 199, as Maisons vers les fours à chaux, à l'Estaque.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 23, as Winterlandschaft, 1870.
Vollard, Ambroise. "Souvenirs sur Cézanne." Cahiers d'art 6, nos. 9–10 (1931), p. 392, ill.
Lord, Douglas. "Two Exhibitions at Brussels: II.-The Impressionists at the Palais des Beaux-Arts." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 67, no. 389 (August 1935), p. 87, as La Neige fondue.
Huyghe, René. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 41 p. 167, as La neige fondante ou Les toits rouges.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 51, ill. vol. II, as La Neige fondue à L'Estaque.
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. 54, as La Neige fondante à l'Estaque.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 35, ill. p. 159 (analysis pp. 312–13).
Rewald, John. "Paul Cézanne: New Documents for the Years 1870–71." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 74, no. 433 (April 1939), pl. I fig. B, as Melting Snow at L'Estaque, c. 1871.
Venturi, Lionello. Impressionists and Symbolists: Manet, Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Scribner, 1950, fig. 119.
Williams, Forest. "Cézanne and French Phenomenology." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 12, no. 4 (June 1954), p. 482.
Daulte, François. "La Collection Bührle." Connaissance des Arts 52 (June 1956), p. 34, ill.
Andersen, Wayne V. "A Cézanne Self-portrait Drawing Reidentified." The Burlington Magazine 105, no. 735 (June 1964), p. 285, winter 1870-71.
Leonhard, Kurt. Paul Cézanne in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Rheinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1966, p. 123, ill.
Cherpin, Jean et al. "L'Oeuvre gravé de Cézanne." Arts et Livres de Provence (Marseille) 82 (1972), ill. p. [19], as La Neige fondue à L'Estaque.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 4, with comments.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 28.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 61, ill.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, p. 196, pl. XV.
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. 157, ill. vol. 2, as La Neige fondue à l'Estaque – Les Toits rouges.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 111, fig. 3.9, as La Neige fondue à l'Estaque – Les Toits rouges.
Serrano, Véronique. "Cézanne's L'Estaque: Something More Secret." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 157, fig. 7, as La Neige fondue à l'Estaque – Les Toits rouges.
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Estaque, Art et Patrimoine, Chronique d'une double histoire. Gémenos: Groupe Horizon, 2013, p. 160, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 68, fig. 13a, with color photo of motif, fig. 13b, as La Neige fondue à L'Estaque.
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Oeuvre de Cezanne à L'Estaque, Huiles – Aquarelles – Dessins, 1864–1885. Marseille: Éditions Gaussen, 2019, fig. 16 (discussion p. 20), as La Neige fondue à l'Estaque – Les Toits rouges.
Blanc, Geneviève. Et si L'Estaque m'était contée? [privately published], 2020, p. 149, ill. with contemporary photo of houses on the hill.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 132, ill., as Paysage (le neige fondue à l'Estaque).
Gloor, Lukas. "Der Bestand der Sammlung Emil Bührle: Illustrierte Liste aller 633 Käufe." In Die Sammlung Emil Bührle: Geschichte, Gesamtkatalog und 70 Meisterwerke. München: Hirmer, 2021, p. 272, no. 308, fig. 308 p. 273, as La Neige fondue à L'Estaque.
Record last updated September 16, 2024. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Neige fondue à l'Estaque – Les Toits rouges, c.1870 (FWN 53)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=165 (accessed on April 19, 2025).
