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 68
La Vieille Route à Auvers-sur-Oise (rue des Pilonnes)
1872–73
Alternate titles: Der Weg nach Auvers-sur-Oise; La Route à Auvers; La Vieille Route à Auvers-sur-Oise; La Vielle Route à Auvers-sur-Oise (Rue des Pilonnes)
Rewald (190): 1872–73; Venturi revised: c.1873; Venturi (147): 1873–75
Oil on canvas
21 5/8 x 18 1/8 in. (55 x 46 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, French Painting of the 19th Century, January 1934, no. 9. Traveled to: Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, February 1934; Art Association, Montreal, March 1934.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Paintings from the Edwards Collection, October 28, 1944–March 7, 1945.
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Paintings by European Masters from Public and Private Collections in Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa, January 15–February 21, 1954, no. 65.
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 12, ill.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 12, ill. lent by National Gallery of Canada.
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, (Kunsthaus Lempertz), Cologne, Cézanne, Ausstellung zum Gedenken an sein 50. Todesjahr, December 1956–January 1957, no. 5, ill. lent by National Gallery of Ottawa.
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 8, pl. 5.
Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany, Wegbereiter der modernen Malerei: Cézanne, Gauguin, van Gogh, Seurat, May 4–July 14, 1963, no. 5, pl. 66, as Der Weg nach Auvers-sur-Oise, c. 1873-74, lent by The National Gallery of Canada.
Nationalgalerie, Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, Die Ile de France und ihre Maler, September 29–November 24, 1963, no. 17, exhibited with a photograph of the subject.
Dalhousie Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Aspects of 19th and 20th Century European Art, 1981, no. 10.
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 11, ill.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 2, ill., as La Vielle Route à Auvers-sur-Oise (Rue des Pilonnes).
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–1885, June 26–September 12, 2005, no. 70, ill., p. 170 (dated c. 1874–76), as La Vieille Route à Auvers-sur-Oise (rue des Pilonnes). 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
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. L'Art moderne et quelques aspects de l'art d'autrefois: cent-soixante-treize planches d'après la collection privée de MM. J. & G. Bernheim-Jeune, poèmes de Henri de Régnier , 2 vols. Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1919, pl. 7.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 147, ill. vol. II, as La Route à Auvers.
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 ...
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 124.
Hubbard, Robert Hamilton. "Recent Acquisitions of the National Gallery of Canada." Art Quarterly (Summer 1947), pp. 229–30.
Hubbard, Robert Hamilton. The National Gallery of Canada: Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. Ottawa: University of Toronto Press, 1959, no. 4637, ill.
Hubbard, Robert Hamilton. European Paintings in Canadian Collections,vol. II. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1962, p. 150.
Reidemeister, Leopold. Auf den Spuren der Maler der Ile de France. Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 1963, p. 59, ill. (with photograph of the subject).
Boggs, Jean Sutherland. The National Gallery of Canada. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1971, p. 41.
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. 190, ill. vol. 2, as La Vieille Route à Auvers-sur-Oise (rue des Pilonnes).
Mothe, Alain, et al. Cézanne à Auvers-sur-Oise. Saint-Ouen-L'Aumône: editions du Valharmeil, 2006, p. 23, ill. with photo of motif.
Mothe, Alain. Ce que voyait Cézanne: Les paysages impressionnistes à la lumière des cartes postales. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011, pp. 24–25, ill., as La Vieille Route à Auvers-sur-Oise (rue des Pilonnes), with present-day photograph of motif (rue François-Coppée).
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed., Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 59, ill., as La Vieille Route à Auvers-sur-Oise, photos of motif by C. Crès (p. 59).
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 145, ill., as La Route à Auvers, photograph of work hanging in Bernheim-Jeune residence at 107 avenue Henri Martin, p. 8.
Record last updated April 5, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Vieille Route à Auvers-sur-Oise (rue des Pilonnes), 1872–73 (FWN 68)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=194 (accessed on May 13, 2025).
