The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
Catalogue entry
FWN 56
La Route forestière
c.1870
Alternate titles: La Route de forêt; Landschaft mit Felsweg; Route dans les pins à l'Estaque; The Forested Road
Rewald: (168) c.1870; Vollard: c.1870
Oil on canvas
21 1/8 x 25 5/8 in. (53.7 x 65 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Vom Abbild zum Sinnbild, June 3–July 3, 1931, no. 19, as Landschaft mit Felsweg, lent by Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 9, ill.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 16, ill., (dated c. 1866–69). Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 3, ill.
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Monet und die Geburt des Impressionismus, March 11–June 28, 2015.
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 4, ill.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Cézanne, The Rocks and Quarry Paintings, March 7–June 14, 2020, fig. 5, as The Forested Road, shown in London only. Traveled to: Royal Academy, London, July 12–October 18, 2020 (N.B. This venue was cancelled due to 2020 coronavirus).
Published References
Vollard, Ambroise. "Souvenirs sur Cézanne." Cahiers d'art 6, nos. 9–10 (1931), p. 395, ill.
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 90, ill.
Bonafoux, Pascal. Cézanne: portrait. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 87, ill.
Schmitt, Evmarie. Cézanne in der Provence. München and New York: Prestel, 1995, p. 31.
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. 168, ill. vol. 2 as La Route de forêt.
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Oeuvre de Cezanne à L'Estaque, Huiles – Aquarelles – Dessins, 1864–1885. Marseille: Éditions Gaussen, 2019, fig. 26 (discussion p. 30) as Route dans les pins à l'Estaque.
Elderfield, John. "Excavations." In Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Exhibition catalogue, p. 7, fig. 5 as The Forested Road, dated c. 1870.
Record last updated January 9, 2019. 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. "La Route forestière, c.1870 (FWN 56)." The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=176 (accessed on March 4, 2021).
