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Catalogue entry

FWN 77
La Maison du père Lacroix, Auvers-sur-Oise
1873
Alternate titles: Étude à Anvers; Étude: Paysage à Auvers; House of Pére Lacroix; House of Père Lacroix, Auvers; La Maison du Père Lacroix; La Maison du père Lacroix à Auvers-sur-Oise; Maison du Père Lacroix, à Auvers; Paysage (Auvers-sur-Oise); Paysage d'Auvers
Rewald (201): 1873; Venturi revised: 1873; Venturi (138): 1873; Rivière: 1873
Oil on canvas
24 3/16 x 20 1/16 in. (61.5 x 51 cm)
Signed and dated lower left in blue: P. Cezanne 73
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (Chester Dale Collection)

Keywords

Provenance
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 26, 1908, no. 42
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (May 26, 1908)
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (May 26, 1908)
Alphonse Kann, Saint-Germain-en-Laye (June 15, 1908)
Auguste Pellerin, Paris
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York
Chester Dale, New York (Nov. 27, 1937);
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1963)
Exhibition History
1874 Paris
Studio Nadar (35, boulevard des Capucines), Paris, Première exposition de la Société anonyme des artistes peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs, April 15–May 15, 1874, no. 44, as Étude: Paysage à Auvers, [lent by the artist].
2024–25 Paris and traveling
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Paris 1874 Inventer l'impressionnisme, March 26–July 14, 2024, no. 134, ill. (shown in Washington only). Traveled to: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, September 8, 2024–January 20, 2025.
Published References
Montifaud 1874
Montifaud, Marc de. "Exposition du boulevard des Capucines." L'Artiste (May 1, 1874), p. 311, as Étude à Anvers.
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 201, listed.
Rivière 1933
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 35, ill.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 138, ill. vol. II, as Maison du Père Lacroix, à Auvers.
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 d'Auvers.
Goldwater 1938
Goldwater, Robert J. "Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections." Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 148, ill. JW: ? (in notebooks).
Barnes and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 44, listed.
Cogniat 1939a
Cogniat, Raymond. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1939, pl. 24.
ARTNews 1942
Art News (May 15, 1942), p. 15, ill. in col, as House of Pére Lacroix.
Magazine of Art 1942
"The Golden Years of France." Magazine of Art vol, 35, no. 5 (May 1942), p. 179, ill., as House of Père Lacroix.
National Gallery of Art 1942
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1942, p. 67, ill., as House of Pére Lacroix.
Rivière 1942
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 35, ill.
Rewald 1946
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1946, p. 246, ill.
Chester Dale 1948
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. Washington, D.C. 1953, p. 67, ill., as House of Pére Lacroix.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 31, listed p. 147.
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. 62, ill.
Reidemeister 1964a
Reidemeister, Leopold. "The Lens Verifies the Brush." Portfolio (Spring 1964), p. 16, ill. (with photo of motif), as House of Père Lacroix.
Pool 1967
Pool, Phoebe. Impressionism. New York: Praeger, 1967, pl. 147, as House of Père Lacroix, Auvers.
Ikegami 1969
Ikegami, Chuji. Cézanne. Tokyo: Shueisha, 1969, pl. 8.
Andersen 1970
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, p. 11, fig. 10.
Elgar 1975
Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 32.
National Gallery of Art 1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1975, no. 1766, p. 61, ill., as House of Père Lacroix.
Wadley 1975
Wadley, Nicholas. Cézanne and His Art. London: Hamlyn, 1975, pl. 25.
Kelder 1980
Kelder, Diane. The Great Book of French Impressionism. New York: Abbeville Press, 1980, p. 162, ill.
Plazy 1981
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne. Fribourg: Editions Medea, 1981, p. 133.
House 1985
House, John. Impressionist Masterpieces: National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York: Hugh Lauther Levin, 1985, p. 52, pl. 15.
Bessonova and Williams 1986
Bessonova, Marina, and William Williams. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Hermitage, Leningrad, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York: Park Lane, 1986, p. 153, ill.
Pickvance 1986
Pickvance, Ronald. Van Gogh in Saint-Rémy and Auvers. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 234–35, fig. 56 (compares van Gogh's Houses at Auvers with this picture).
Kendall 1988
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 56, ill.
Düchting 1989
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 64, ill.
Wadley 1989
Wadley, Nicholas. Cézanne and His Art. London: Hamlyn, 1989, p. 31, ill. in color.
Lartigue 1995
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 53, ill.
Machotka 1996
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 41, fig. 18, with photograph of motif, p. 40, fig. 17, as La Maison du Père Lacroix.
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. 201, ill. vol. 2, as La Maison du père Lacroix, Auvers-sur-Oise.
Maloon 1998
Maloon, Terence. "Classic Cézanne." In Classic Cézanne. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998. Exhibition catalogue, p. 44, fig. 19.
Brettell 2000
Brettell, Richard R. "The Impression in 1874." In Impression: painting quckly in France 1860-1890. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 5, as House of Père Lacroix.
Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 107, fig. 63.
Mothe et al. 2006
Mothe, Alain, et al. Cézanne à Auvers-sur-Oise. Saint-Ouen-L'Aumône: editions du Valharmeil, 2006, p. 8, ill. also p. 44, with old postcard view of motif (7,9 rue de Gré).
Conisbee 2006a
Conisbee, Philip. "Cézanne's Provence." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 31, fig. 14, as La Maison du père Lacroix, Auvers-sur-Oise.
D'Souza 2008
D'Souza, Aruna. Cézanne's Bathers. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008, fig. 23, ill.
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 95; vol. 2, p. 83, as La Maison du père Lacroix, Auvers-sur-Oise.
Simms 2008
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 48, fig. 34.
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. 32–33, ill., as La Maison du père Lacroix, Auvers-sur-Oise, with old postcard view of cottage titled "Auvewrs-Chaponval. La chaumière et le vieux puits"; the houses still exist at 7 and 9, rue du Gré.
Société Paul Cézanne 2011
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed., Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 61, ill., as La Maison du père Lacroix à Auvers-sur-Oise, photo of motif by C. Crès (p. 60).
Machotka 2014
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 72, fig. 16a, with color photo of motif, fig. 16b, as La Maison du père Lacroix, Auvers-sur-Oise.
Elderfield, Morton, Rey 2017
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 266, fig. 90.
Marchesseau 2017
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 146, ill.
Warman 2017
Warman, Jayne. "Chronologie." In Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 266, fig. 90.
Warman 2017a
Warman, Jayne. "Chronology." In Cézanne Portraits. London and Princeton, NJ.: National Portrait Gallery Publications and Princeton University Press, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 101.
Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 139, ill., as Paysage (Auvers-sur-Oise).
Notes

The house was located at the Sente de Gré in Auvers-sur-Oise. Alain Mothe suggests that this is the same house as in Maison dans les arbres, c.1879 (137).

La Maison du père Lacroix, Auvers-sur-Oise, 1873 (FWN 77). Vincent van Gogh, Maisons à Auvers, June 1890. Toledo Museum of Art (Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey)
Vincent van Gogh, Maisons à Auvers, June 1890. Toledo Museum of Art (Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey)
La Maison du père Lacroix, Auvers-sur-Oise, 1873 (FWN 77). Postcard view of the house of Père Lacroix
Postcard view of the house of Père Lacroix
Photo: Courtesy Alain Mothe
La Maison du père Lacroix, Auvers-sur-Oise, 1873 (FWN 77). Site identified by Leopold Reidemeister.
Site identified by Leopold Reidemeister.
Photo: Pavel Machotka, 1976; © Courtesy Pavel Machotka Archive
Record last updated April 13, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Maison du père Lacroix, Auvers-sur-Oise, 1873 (FWN 77)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=205 (accessed on April 19, 2024).