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Catalogue entry

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
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven (Mary C. and James W. Fosburgh Bequest)

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Provenance
Auguste Pellerin, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (February 6, 1909)
Georges Bernheim, Paris
Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson, Chicago;
The Art Institute of Chicago (Ryerson Bequest)
Paul Rosenberg, New York
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Fosburgh, New York;
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven (1979)
Exhibition History
1920d Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, December 1–18, 1920, no. 24, as Paysage à Auvers, tentative identification, lent by G. Bernheim.
1941a Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Aspects of French Painting from Cézanne to Picasso, January 15–March 2, 1941, no. 6.
1980 New Haven
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Recent Acquisitions, 1980.
1999–2000 Yokohama and traveling
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.
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. 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 1933
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 69, ill.
Venturi 1936b
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 1938
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 125.
Rivière 1942
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 65, ill.
Jewell 1944a
Jewell, Edward Alden. Paul Cézanne. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944, p. 39, ill.
Rewald 1946
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1946, p. 247, ill.
Guerry 1950
Guerry, Liliane. Cézanne et l'expression de l'espace. Paris: Flammarion, 1950, fig. 5.
Gachet 1956
Gachet, Paul. Deux amis des impressionnistes: le Docteur Gachet et Murer. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1956, p. 54, note 1.
Rewald 1961
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 299, ill.
Reidemeister 1963
Reidemeister, Leopold. Auf den Spuren der Maler der Ile de France. Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 1963, p. 64, ill.
Guerry 1966
Guerry, Liliane. Cézanne et l'expression de l'espace. Paris: Albin-Michel, 1966, pl. 13.
Pool 1967
Pool, Phoebe. Impressionism. New York: Praeger, 1967, pl. 148, as House of Dr. Gachet, Auvers.
Plazy 1981
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne. Fribourg: Editions Medea, 1981, p. 111.
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. 193, ill. vol. 2, as La Maison du docteur Gachet à Auvers-sur-Oise.
Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 106, fig. 62.
Mothe et al. 2006
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 2007
Hammond, Anna, ed. Object Lessons. New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007, pl. 2, ill.
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. 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 2011
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 2013
Smith, Paul. "Cézanne's 'Primitive' Perspective, or the 'View from Everywhere.'" The Art Bulletin 95, no. 1 (March 2013), fig. 6.
Dauberville 2020
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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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 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 April 18, 2024).