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 71
La Maison du docteur Gachet à Auvers-sur-Oise
1872–73
Alternate titles: House of Dr. Gachet, Auvers; La route or Rue du village (Maison du Docteur Gachet – Auvers-sur-Oise); Maison du docteur Gachet, à Auvers; Paysage à Auvers
Rewald (193): 1872–73; Venturi revised: 1872–73; Venturi (144): 1873; Rivière: c.1880 (1933)
Oil on canvas
24 1/4 x 20 1/8 in. (61.6 x 51.1 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 316, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Auvers 1882
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, December 1–18, 1920, no. 24, as Paysage à Auvers, tentative identification, lent by G. Bernheim.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Aspects of French Painting from Cézanne to Picasso, January 15–March 2, 1941, no. 6.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Recent Acquisitions, 1980.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 14, ill., as La Maison du docteur Gachet à Auvers-sur-Oise. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–1885, June 26–September 12, 2005, no. 50, ill., p. 141, as La Maison du docteur Gachet à Auvers-sur-Oise. 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. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 69, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 144, ill. vol. II, as Maison du docteur Gachet, à Auvers.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 125.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 65, ill.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1946, p. 247, ill.
Gachet, Paul. Deux amis des impressionnistes: le Docteur Gachet et Murer. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1956, p. 54, note 1.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 299, ill.
Reidemeister, Leopold. Auf den Spuren der Maler der Ile de France. Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 1963, p. 64, ill.
Pool, Phoebe. Impressionism. New York: Praeger, 1967, pl. 148, as House of Dr. Gachet, Auvers.
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. 193, ill. vol. 2, as La Maison du docteur Gachet à Auvers-sur-Oise.
Mothe, Alain, et al. Cézanne à Auvers-sur-Oise. Saint-Ouen-L'Aumône: editions du Valharmeil, 2006, p. 17, ill. with photo of motif, p. 16.
Hammond, Anna, ed. Object Lessons. New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007, pl. 2, ill.
Mothe, Alain. Ce que voyait Cézanne: Les paysages impressionnistes à la lumière des cartes postales. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011, pp. 28–29, ill., as La Maison du docteur Gachet à Auvers-sur-Oise, 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. 53, ill., as La Maison du docteur Gachet à Auvers-sur-Oise.
Smith, Paul. "Cézanne's 'Primitive' Perspective, or the 'View from Everywhere.'" The Art Bulletin 95, no. 1 (March 2013), fig. 6.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 136, ill., as La route or Rue du village (Maison du Docteur Gachet – Auvers-sur-Oise).
Notes
Dr. Gachet bought this house in 1872, but his practice was in Paris. His wife and two children lived in the house; the doctor spent three days a week with them. (JR, 1996, p. 148)
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Maison du docteur Gachet à Auvers-sur-Oise, 1872–73 (FWN 71)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=197 (accessed on September 8, 2024).
