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 65
Le Moulin à huile
c.1872
Alternate titles: Chaumières à Auvers; Le moulin à huile; 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, 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 5, 1937.
Bignou Gallery, New York, Cézanne and Renoir, February 1937.
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Cézanne, June 1937, no. 4, as Le Moulin à l'huile, dated 1870–71.
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, De David à Cézanne, November 1947–January 1948, 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, no. 9, as Le Moulin à l'huile, lent by C.W. Boise. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway, Paul Cezanne: 28 malerier, November 13–December 1, 1954, no. 3, as Le Moulin à l'huile, lent by C.W. Boise.
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, no. 59, ill. Traveled to: Musée d'Orsay, Cézanne: les années de jeunesse 1859-1872, Paris, September 19, 1988–January 1, 1989; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., January 29–April 30, 1989.
Published References
"Cézanne at Montross." American Art News 14, no. 14 (January 8, 1916), p. 2 (mentioned), as The Old Mill [sic].
"A Representative Group of Cézannes Here." New York Times Magazine, January 2, 1916, p. 21.
Wright, Willard Huntington. "Paul Cézanne." International Studio 57, no. 228 (February 1916), p. cxxx.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 136, ill. vol. II, as Le Moulin à huile.
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 ...paysage ...
Dunlop, R.O. "The need for Permanent Values in the Art of our Time." The Studio (April 1940), p. 119, ill., 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.
Lartigue, Charles de. 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.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 80, ill., as Le moulin à huile.
Record last updated December 17, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Moulin à huile, c.1872 (FWN 65)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=192 (accessed on November 30, 2023).
