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 63
Vue de Louveciennes, d'après Pissarro
c.1872
Alternate titles: Auvers; Louveciennes; Paysage; Paysage (Louveciennes); Paysage d'Auvers; Paysage de Louvciennes. Copie d'après Pissarro; View of Louveciennes; Vue de Louveciennes
Rewald (184): c.1872; Venturi revised: 1872–73; Venturi (153): 1872; Rivière: 1875; Cooper: 1872–74; Ratcliffe: probably before September 1872
Oil on canvas
28 11/16 x 36 3/16 in. (73 x 92 cm)
Private collection
Provenance
Exhibition History
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 23, as Louveciennes, lent by Lecomte.
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 24, pl. X, lent by private collection, Paris.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 7, ill. lent by anon.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Olympia's Progeny: French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings (1865-1905), October 28–November 27, 1965, no. 7, ill. in color, as Louveciennes, 1871-1872, lent by a Private collector, Switzerland.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Nature as Scene: French Landscape Painting from Poussin to Bonnard, October 29–December 6, 1975, no. 12.
Wildenstein, Tokyo, Ten Masterpieces of European of Painting, May 10–June 30, 1983, ill.
Grand Palais, Paris, Un ami de Cézanne et de Van Gogh: le docteur Gachet, January 28–April 26, 1999, without no. (P.G. II-2), ill., as View of Louveciennes, 1872, lent by Privat collection; shown in NY only. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cézanne to Van Gogh: The Collection of Doctor Gachet, May 25–August 15, 1999; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, September 24–December 5, 1999.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–1885, June 26–September 12, 2005, no. 23, ill., p. 107, as Vue de Louveciennes, lent by Private collection, courtesy Wildenstein. Traveled to: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, October 20, 2005–January 16, 2006; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, February 27–May 28, 2006 (Cézanne et Pissarro 1865-1885).
Published References
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 202, listed, p. 181, ill., as Paysage, Pellerin.
Fry, Roger. "Le développement de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 7, no. 12 (December 1926), ill. p. 402, as Paysage d'Auvers.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, pp. 35–38, fig. 15, pl. X.
Neugass, Fritz. "Paul Cézanne: zu seinem 25. Todestag am 22. Oktober 1931." Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration 69 (October 1931–March 1932), ill. p. 138.
Laprade, Jacques de. "L'exposition Cézanne à l'Orangerie." Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 177 (May 22, 1936), ill. p. 2, as Copie d'une toile de Pissarro.
Vergnet-Ruiz, Jean. "Cézanne et I'impressionnisme." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 19, nos. 5-6 (May–June 1936), p. 18, ill together with the painting by Pissarro, as Louveciennes.
Watt, Alexander. "Notes from Paris: Exhibition of Cézanne at the Orangerie." Apollo 21 (1936), p. 40, ill.
Rewald, John. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Art sacré: revue mensuelle, special number, Cézanne (May 1936), p. 8, fig. 4 p. 9, as Paysage de Louvciennes. Copie d'après Pissarro.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 153, ill. vol. II, as Louveciennes.
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 Vue de Louveciennes.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 43, listed.
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, p. 197.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 35, pl. X fig. 15, as Auvers.
Gachet, Paul. Lettres impressionnistes au Dr. Gachet et à Murer. Paris: Grasset, 1957, p. 54.
Meadmore, William Sutton. Lucien Pissarro: Un coeur simple. London: Constable, 1962, pp. 26–27.
Pool, Phoebe. Impressionism. New York: Praeger, 1967, pl. 145, as View of Louveciennes, dated 1872–73.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 34, ill.
Perucchi-Petri, Ursula. "War Cézanne Impressionist? Die Begegnung zwischen Cézanne und Pissarro." Du 35, no. 9 (September 1975), p. 55, ill.
Bensusan-Butt, John. Recollections of Lucien Pissarro in His Seventies. London: Anthony d'Offay, 1977, p. 21.
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. 184, ill. vol. 2, as Vue de Louveciennes, d'après Pissarro.
Stein, Susan, with the assistance of Julie Steiner. "Summary Catalogue of Works by Major Artists (Volume II, Cézanne [catalogue raisonné by Paul Gachet fils)." Cézanne to Van Gogh: The Collection of Doctor Gachet. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 198-199, P.G. II-2, ill. and fig. 81 p. 164, as View of Louveciennes, c. 1872.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Doktor Gachet: Ein Freund von Cézanne und Van Gogh? Ein Beitrag zu Echtheitsfragen bei Cézanne." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel,
Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 260, ill.
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. Études cézanniennes. Paris: Flammarion, 2006, p. 87, fig. 35, as Vue de Louveciennes, dated 1872.
Pissarro, Joachim. Cézanne/Pissarro, Johns/Rauschenberg: Comparative Studies on Intersubjectivity in Modern Art. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, fig. 15 p. 131, as Louveciennes, Private collection, courtesy of Wildenstein & Co.
Pissarro, Joachim. "Cézanne et Pissarro esthétiques de la résistance/Résistances à toute esthétique." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 77, fig. 34, illustrated with Pissarro original, fig. 33.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 71, fig. 37.
Clarke, Michael. "Finding Cézanne, His Place in the French Landscape Tradition." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 6.
Clark, T.J. "Strange Apprentice
(T.J. Clark on Pissarro and Cézanne)." London Review of Books 42, no. 19 (October 8, 2020), ill.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 152, ill., as Paysage (Louveciennes).
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 28.
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 17.
Notes
Lucien Pissarro recalled that Cezanne borrowed a painting from his father. He recalled: "Cézanne gives a clear definition of 'sensation' which really comes from my father. You know that Cézanne did most powerful black pictures until he came to ssee us in 1870: my father then explained to him what he was doing. Cézanne, in order to realise his meaning, asked father to lend him a picture to copy. The copy was very fine, and quite different from father's model – Cézanne always did that – his copy was a free one he copied everything except the actual execution. I have seen them hanging together in the collection of Dr. Gachet." (See J. Bensusan-Butt, 1977 or Rewald, 1996, p. 144).
Vintage postcard view of the motif
Photo: Courtesy Alain Mothe
Camille Pissarro, Louveciennes, 1871. Oil on canvas, 90 x 116.5 cm. Private Collection
Record last updated July 19, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Vue de Louveciennes, d'après Pissarro, c.1872 (FWN 63)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=190 (accessed on July 9, 2025).
