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 78
Le Quartier du Four à Auvers-sur-Oise
c.1873
Alternate titles: Environs d'Auvers; Etude: Paysage à Auvers; Landscape; Landscape, Auvers-sur-Oise; Paysage à Auvers; Quartier Four, à Auvers; Quartier Four, Auvers-sur-Oise (Landscape, Auvers)
Rewald (198): c.1873; Venturi revised: 1873–75; Venturi (157): 1873–74
Oil on canvas
18 1/4 x 21 3/4 in. (46.3 x 55.2 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, The White Collection, 1933–34.
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November 10–December 10, 1934, no. 45, as Landscape, lent by SS White.
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Cézanne: Centennial Exhibition, November 7–December 2, 1939, no. 1, (dated 1873–74), as Le Quartier du Four à Auvers-sur-Oise, lent by White.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 6, lent by White.
Philadelphia Museum of Arts, Philadelphia, Masterpieces from Philadelphia Private Collections, Part II, 1950, no. 11.
Musée Saint-Georges, Liège, Belgium, Cézanne, March 12–May 9, 1982, no. 4, ill. 1873-74. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 12–August 31, 1982 (exhibition catalogue; preface by Denis Coutagne).
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne in Philadelphia Collections, July 19–August 21, 1983, no. 2, ill. lent by Philadelphia Museum.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., The New Painting, Impressionism: 1874–1886, January 17–April 6, 1986, no. 3, ill., as Etude: Paysage à Auvers. Traveled to: de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, April 19–July 6, 1986.
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 3, ill. Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 15, ill., as Le Quartier du Four 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. 56, p. 152 (dated c. 1874), as Le Quartier du Four 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).
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, pl. 54, p. 228, as Le Quartier du Four à Auvers-sur-Oise.
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne et Paris, October 12, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 35, ill., p. 78, as Le Quartier du Four à Auvers-sur-Oise, lent by Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Published References
"Les disparus [et] Paroles." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 6, no. 5 (March 1, 1925), ill. p. 109.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 157, ill. vol. II, as Quartier Four, à Auvers.
"[Aquisitions des musées du monde entier]." La Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 1189 (February 1968), p. 80, no. 294, ill., as Paysage à Auvers, 1873-74.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 7.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 88, ill. in color.
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 50, ill. in color.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 52, 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. 198, ill. vol. 2, as Le Quartier du Four à Auvers-sur-Oise.
Mothe, Alain, et al. Cézanne à Auvers-sur-Oise. Saint-Ouen-L'Aumône: editions du Valharmeil, 2006, p. 111, ill.
Elderfield, John. "Picasso's Extreme Cézanne." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 228, pl. 54, as Quartier Four, Auvers-sur-Oise (Landscape, Auvers).
Pissarro, Joachim. "Cézanne et Pissarro esthétiques de la résistance/Résistances à toute esthétique." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 78, ill., as Le Quartier du Four à Auvers-sur-Oise.
Smith, Paul. "Cézanne's 'Primitive' Perspective, or the 'View from Everywhere.'" The Art Bulletin 95, no. 1 (March 2013), fig. 8.
Callen, Anthea. The Work of Art: Plein-air Painting and Artistic Identiy in the Nineteenth-century France. London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2015, p. 185, as Landscape, Auvers-sur-Oise, c. 1874.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 141, ill., as Environs d'Auvers.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Quartier du Four à Auvers-sur-Oise, c.1873 (FWN 78)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=202 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
