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Catalogue entry

FWN 56
La Route forestière
c.1870
Alternate titles: La Route de forêt; Landschaft mit Felsweg; Landschaft. Straße mit Bäumen im Felsgebirge; 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)
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SG 458)

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main (1929);
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Exhibition History
1931 Frankfurt am Main
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.
1993 Tübingen
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 9, ill.
2006 Washington, D.C. and traveling
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.
2013 Dresden
Albertinum, Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden, Germany, Constable, Delacroix, Friedrich, Goya: Die Erschütterung der Sinne / A Shock to the Senses, March 16–July 14, 2013, pp. 93 and 183, ill., as Landschaft. Straße mit Bäumen im Felsgebirge, 1870/71.
2014a Madrid
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 3, ill.
2015 Frankfurt am Main
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Monet und die Geburt des Impressionismus, March 11–June 28, 2015.
2017–18 Karlsruhe
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 4, ill.
2020 Princeton and traveling
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings, March 7–June 14, 2020, fig. 5, as The Forested Road, to be shown in London only. Traveled to: Royal Academy, London, July 12–October 18, 2020 (N.B. This venue was cancelled due to 2020 coronavirus).
2021–22 Budapest
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary, Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction, October 28, 2021–February 13, 2022, no. 15, ill.
2022–23 Chicago and traveling
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 16, ill. 1870–71. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Vollard 1931
Vollard, Ambroise. "Souvenirs sur Cézanne." Cahiers d'art 6, nos. 9–10 (1931), p. 395, ill.
Rewald 1986b
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 90, ill.
Bonafoux 1995
Bonafoux, Pascal. Cézanne: portrait. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 87, ill.
Schmitt 1995
Schmitt, Evmarie. Cézanne in der Provence. München and New York: Prestel, 1995, p. 31.
Rewald 1996
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 2019
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 2020a
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: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Route forestière, c.1870 (FWN 56)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=176 (accessed on April 24, 2024).