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 65
Le Moulin à huile
c.1872
Alternate titles: Chaumières à Auvers; Le Moulin à l'huile; The Oil Mill
Rewald: (186) c.1872; Venturi revised: 1872–73; Venturi: (136) 1870–71; Cooper: c.1872; Gowing: c.1872 (Edinburgh) and c.1871 (London)
Oil on canvas
14 5/8 x 17 11/16 in. (37 x 45 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3365, peinture à l'huile représentant un paysage avec des petites chaumières, ciel bleu foncé, 36 x 48 cm (250 frs)
Vollard W stockbook: no. 5248, maisons; huile, 38 x 45 (8,000)
Vollard archives: photo no. 351, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1870
Provenance
Exhibition History
Montross Gallery, New York, Cézanne, January 1–31, 1916. Thirty watercolors were also shown. The Galerie Bernheim-Jeune lent all of the works. (exhibition catalogue), no. 7, as The Oil Mill, lent by Bernheim-Jeune.
Bignou Gallery, New York, Paul Cézanne, November–December 1936, no. 7, as Le Moulin à huile, lent by Vollard.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Cézanne, January, 1937.
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Cézanne, June, 1937, no. 4.
Bignou Gallery, New York, Cézanne and Renoir, February, 1937.
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, De David à Cézanne, November, 1947–January, 1948 (exhibition catalogue), no. 136, (size reversed), as Chaumières à Auvers, tentative identification, lent by Private collection.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954 (exhibition catalogue; introduction by Lawrence Gowing and catalogue notes by Lawrence Gowing and Ronald Alley). An important loan exhibition, no. 9, lent by C.W. Boise. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway, Paul Cézanne, November 13–December 1, 1954, no. 3.
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom, How Impressionism Began, July 16–August 21, 1960, no. 53.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988 (exhibition catalogue; text by Lawrence Gowing with contributions by Götz Adriani, Mary Tompkins Lewis, Mary Louise Krumrine, John Rewald, and Sylvie Patin), no. 59, ill. Traveled to: Musée d'Orsay, Cézanne: les années de jeunesse 1859-1872, Paris, September 19–January 1, 1988. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, January 29–April 30, 1989.
Published References
Wright, Willard Huntington. "Paul Cézanne." International Studio 57, no. 228 (February 1916), p. cxxx.
Klingsor, Tristan L. Cézanne. Paris: Rieder, 1923, pl. 13.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 136, ill. vol. II as Le Moulin à huile.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 290, fig. 146.
De Lartigue, Charles. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 50, ill.
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. 186, ill. vol. 2 as Le Moulin à l'huile.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "Epilogue: Cézanne and Abstract Expressionism." In Cézanne and American Modernism, by Gail Stavitsky. Seattle: Marquand Books, 2010. Exhibition catalogue, p. 131, fig. 4.
Record last updated November 15, 2018. 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 Moulin à huile, c.1872 (FWN 65)." The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. http://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=192 (accessed on February 22, 2019).