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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)
Catalogue entry
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)
Vollard archives: photo no. 150, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Auvers 1875
Provenance
Josse and Gaston Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
Gordon C. Edwards, Ottawa (March. 25, 1928)
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (1946)
Exhibition History
1934 Ottawa and traveling
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 1934.1939 Montreal
Art Association, Montreal, Nineteenth Century Landscape Painting, 1939, no. 57.1944–45 Ottawa
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Paintings from the Edwards Collection, October 28, 1944–March 7, 1945.1954 Toronto
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. 65.1956 The Hague
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 12, ill.1956 Zurich
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Paul Cézanne, August 22–October 7, 1956, no. 16.1956 Munich
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 12, ill. lent by National Gallery of Canada.1956–57 Cologne
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.1961 Vienna
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 8, pl. 5.1963 Hamburg
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.1963 Berlin
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.1981 Halifax
Dalhousie Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Aspects of 19th and 20th Century European Art, 1981, no. 10.1990 Edinburgh
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 11, ill.1998–99 Sydney
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).2005–06 New York and traveling
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 1919
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 147, ill. vol. II, as La Route à Auvers.Rewald 1936e
Rewald, John. Cézanne et Zola. Paris: Editions A. Sedrowski, 1936, fig. 26.Rewald 1937a
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 1938
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 124.Buchanan 1946
Buchanan, Donald. "Lost to Canada." Canadian Art 3 (April–May 1946), p. 124.Hubbard 1947
Hubbard, Robert Hamilton. "Recent Acquisitions of the National Gallery of Canada." Art Quarterly (Summer 1947), pp. 229–30.Hubbard 1959
Hubbard, Robert Hamilton. The National Gallery of Canada: Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. Ottawa: University of Toronto Press, 1959, no. 4637, ill.Hubbard 1962
Hubbard, Robert Hamilton. European Paintings in Canadian Collections,vol. II. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1962, p. 150.Reidemeister 1963
Reidemeister, Leopold. Auf den Spuren der Maler der Ile de France. Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 1963, p. 59, ill. (with photograph of the subject).Boggs 1971
Boggs, Jean Sutherland. The National Gallery of Canada. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1971, p. 41.Naubert-Riser 1992
Naubert-Riser, Constance. Cézanne. London: Studio Editions, 1994, p. 59.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. 190, ill. vol. 2, as La Vieille Route à Auvers-sur-Oise (rue des Pilonnes).Mothe et al. 2006
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 2011
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 2011
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 2020
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.
Photograph by Lionello Venturi, 1933–35 (Courtesy Archivio di Lionello Venturi, Department of Art History and Performance, Sapienza University, Rome)
Vintage postcard view of the motif.
Photo: Courtesy Alain Mothe
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 April 26, 2024).
