The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
Catalogue entry
FWN 81
La Maison du pendu, Auvers-sur-Oise
c.1873
Alternate titles: La Maison du pendu; La Maison du pendu à Auvers-sur-Oise; La Maison du Pendu, à Auvers; Landschaft mit Häusern; The Hanged Man's House; The House of the Hanged Man, in Auvers-sur-Oise; Une Chaumière à Auvers-sur-Oise
Rewald: (202) c.1873; Venturi revised: 1872–73; Venturi: (133) 1872–73; Rivière: 1872; Cooper: 1872–74; Gowing: 1873–74; Ratcliffe: probably 1873
Oil on canvas
21 5/8 x 26 in. (55 x 66 cm)
Signed lower left in red: P. Cezanne
Provenance
Exhibition History
Studio Nadar (35, boulevard des Capucines), Paris, Première exposition de la Société anonyme des artistes peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs, April 15–May 15, 1874. Cézanne's address: 120, rue de Vaugirard, Paris (exhibition catalogue), no. 42, as La Maison du pendu à Auvers-sur-Oise, lent by the artist.
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, L'Exposition Universelle, June, 1889 (exhibition catalogue), no. 124, as La Maison du pendu, lent by Doria.
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Exposition du Groupe Les XX, January, 1890. At the urging of Octave Maus, Cézanne was invited to participate in the show. (exhibition catalogue), no. 2, as Une Chaumière à Auvers-sur-Oise, lent by Chocquet.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936 (exhibition catalogue, 2nd revised edition)
A major exhibition commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the artist's death. Catalogue notes by Charles Sterling, foreword by Jacques-Émile Blanche, and preface by Paul Jamot, no. 26, pl. XX, as La Maison du pendu, lent by Louvre, Camondo.
A major exhibition commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the artist's death. Catalogue notes by Charles Sterling, foreword by Jacques-Émile Blanche, and preface by Paul Jamot, no. 26, pl. XX, as La Maison du pendu, lent by Louvre, Camondo.
Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, Les impressionnistes, leurs précurseurs et leurs contemporains, 1947, no. 31.
Orangerie, Paris, Monticelli et le baroque provençal, June 19–September 15, 1953 (exhibition catalogue; essay by Germain Bazin), no. 14, as La Maison du pendu, 1873, lent by Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954 (exhibition catalogue; introduction by Germain Bazin and catalogue notes by Albert Châtelet), no. 28, pl. XII, lent by Musée du Louvre.
Orangerie, Paris, Van Gogh et les peintres d'Auvers-sur-Oise, November 26, 1954–February 28, 1955. Introduction by L. van Ryssel [Paul Gachet fils]; preface by Germain Bazin; catalogue notes by Albert Chatelet, no. 10, as La Maison du pendu, 1873.
Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne dans les musées nationaux, July 19–October 14, 1974 (exhibition catalogue; catalogue by Michel Hoog in collaboration with Simone Rufenacht and Geneviève Monnier), no. 11.
Grand Palais, Paris, Centenaire de l'impressionnisme, September 24–November 24, 1974 (exhibition catalogue), no. 6, ill., as La Maison du pendu. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Impressionism: A Centenary Exhibition, New York, December 12, 1974–February 10, 1975.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996. Organised by Réunion des musées nationaux / musée d'Orsay, Tate Gallery and Philadelphia Museum of Art. Initially scheduled to end on January 7 the Paris exhibition was prolonged until January 14. (exhibition catalogue; text by Françoise Cachin and Joseph Rishel with contributions by Isabelle Cahn, Walter Feilchenfeldt and Henri Loyrette; English edition: Cézanne, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1996), no. 30, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999 (exhibition catalogue), no. 16, ill., as La Maison du pendu, Auvers-sur-Oise. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Impressionism and the North: Late 19th Century French Avant-Garde Art and the Art in the Nordic Countries 1870–1920, September 25, 2002–January 19, 2003 (exhibition catalogue). Curated by Per Hedström, no. 28, ill., p. 56, as The Hanged Man's House. Traveled to: Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark, February 21–May 25, 2003.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–1885, June 26–September 12, 2005, no. 36, p. 127, as La Maison du pendu, Auvers-sur-Oise. Traveled to: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, October 20, 2005–September 12, 2006. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, February 27–May 28, 2006.
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne et Paris, October 12, 2011–February 26, 2012 (exhibition catalogue), no. 74, ill., p. 183, as La Maison du pendu, Auvers-sur-Oise, lent by Musée d'Orsay.
National Art Center, Tokyo, Paris—Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012 (exhibition catalogue in Japanese and French; text by Denis Coutagne, Maryline Assante di Panzillo, Michel Fraisset, Philippe Cézanne, Mitsue Nagaya and Koji Kudo), no. 20, ill.
Published References
De Lora, Léon. "Petites Nouvelles artistiques: Exposition libre des peintres." Le Gaulois, April 18, 1874, p. 3 (mentioned) as La Maison du pendu.
de Montifaud, Marc. "Exposition du boulevard des Capucines." L'Artiste (May 1, 1874), p. 311.
Leroy, Louis. "L'Exposition des impressionnistes." Le Charivari, April 25, 1874, p. 79 as La Maison du pendu.
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. Cézanne. With contributions by O. Mirbeau, T. Duret, L. Werth, et al. Paris: Editions Hollande, 1914, pl. XIII.
Bouyer, Raymond. "La Collection Isaac de Camondo, II." Revue de l'Art 36 (July–December 1914), p. 59, ill.
Jamot, Paul. "La Collection Camondo au Musée du Louvre." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 12, periode 4 (July 1914), ill. between pp. 64–65.
Migeon, Gaston. La Collection Isaac de Camondo. Paris: Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1914, p. 50, ill.
Paul Vitry, Carle Dreyfus, Paul Leprieur... [et al.]. Catalogue de la Collection Isaac de Camondo. Paris: Musée national du Louvre, 1922, no. 151, pl. XXVII as La Maison du pendu à Auvers-sur-Oise.
Klingsor, Tristan L. Cézanne. Paris: Rieder, 1923, pl. 11 as La Maison du pendu.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 200, listed.
Salmon, André. Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Stock, 1923, pl. 2.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 48 as Landschaft mit Häusern.
Schwabacher, Sascha. "Die Impressionisten der Sammlung Camondo im Louvre." Cicerone 19 (1927), p. 374, ill.
Focillon, Henri. La Peinture aux XIXe et XXe siècles. Du réalisme à nos jours. Paris: H. Laurens, 1928, p. 271, ill.
Bertram, Anthony. Cézanne. London: Studio, 1929, pl. 12.
D'Ors, Eugenio. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Editions des Chroniques du Jour, 1930, p. 17, ill.
Schneider, René. L'Art français, XIXe et XXe siècles. Du réalisme à notre temps. Paris: H. Laurens, 1930, pl. 31.
Waldmann, Emil. Paul Cézanne: Acht farbige Gemälde. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1930, pl. 3.
Fell, H. Granville. Cézanne. London: Nelson & Sons, 1933, pl. 3 as La Maison du pendu.
Mack, Gerstle. Paul Cézanne. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935, fig. 19.
Iavorskaia, Nina. Cézanne. Moscow: Ogiz-Izogiz, 1935, pl. 13.
Venturi, Lionello. "Paul Cézanne." L'Arte 6, nos. 4 and 5 (July 1935), p. 313, fig. 8.
Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1936, fig. 18.
Faure, Élie. Cézanne. Paris: Editions Braun, 1936, pl. 6.
Larguier, Léo. Paul Cézanne ou le drame de la pienture. Paris: Denoël et Steele, 1936, p. 11, ill.
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. XXXVII.
John Rewald et al. "Cézanne." L'amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 49.
D'Ors, Eugenio. Paul Cézanne. New York: E. Weyhe, 1936, pl. 18.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 133, ill. vol. II as La Maison du Pendu, à Auvers.
Huyghe, René. Cézanne. Paris: Plon, Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1936, pl. 20.
Francastel, Pierre. L'impressionnisme: Les origines de la peinture moderne de Monet à Gauguin. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1937, fig. 17 as La Maison du pendu, Lourve.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 13.
Vollard, Ambroise. Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux. Paris: Albin Michel, 1937, pl. 32.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, p. 207, no. 127, list of motifs.
Vollard, Ambroise. En écoutant Cézanne, Degas, Renoir. Paris: B. Grasset, 1938, p. 28 as La Maison du pendu.
Barnes, Albert C, and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 45, p. 173, ill.
Cogniat, Raymond. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1939, pl. 19.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 79, ill.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1946, p. 261, ill.
Schildt, Göran. Cézanne. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1946, fig. 25.
Bazin, Germain. L'Epoque impressionniste. Paris: P. Tisné, 1947, pl. 39.
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Tisne, 1948, pl. 32.
Jedlicka, Gotthard. Cézanne. Berne: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1948, fig. 12 as La Maison du pendu, Auvers-sur-Oise.
Raynal, Maurice, Jean Leymarie, and Herbert Read. Histoire de la peinture moderne: de Baudelaire à Bonnard. Geneva: Skira, 1949, p. 35, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Impressionists and Symbolists: Manet, Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Scribner, 1950, fig. 120.
Schapiro, Meyer. Cézanne. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1952, pp. 42–43, ill.
Collot, Ernest-René. "Van Gogh et les peintres d'Auvers-sur-Oise." Journal de l'amateur d'art (Paris), no. 141 (December 10, 1954), p.8, ill. p. 11 with a photograph of the site taken in 1954 as La Maison du Pendu, à Auvers.
Adhémar, Hélène. Catalogue des peintures, pastels, sculptures impressionnistes du Musée du Louvre. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1958, p. 20, no. 38.
Bazin, Germain. Trésors de l'impressionnisme au Louvre. Paris: A. Somogy, 1958, p. 145, ill.
Rewald, John. Cézanne: Paysages. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1958, pl. 3.
Sterling, Charles, and Hélène Adhémar. La Peinture au Musée du Louvre, vol. I. Paris: Éditions des Musées Nationaux, 1958, fig. 255.
Uchida, Sono. Cézanne. Tokyo: Misuzu-Shobo, 1960, p. 21, ill.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 322, ill.
Feist, Peter Heinz. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1963, pp. 14, 17, 25, pl. 20.
Reidemeister, Leopold. Auf den Spuren der Maler der Ile de France. Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 1963, p. 65, ill.
Martini, Alberto, and Renata Negri. Cézanne e il post-impressionismo. Milan: Fabbri, 1967, pl. I.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 66.
Ikegami, Chuji. Cézanne. Tokyo: Shueisha, 1969, pl. 10.
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), pp. 38, 66, 80, fig. 25 p. 66; p. 87, no. 106.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 6, with comments.
Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 27.
Perucchi-Petri, Ursula. "War Cézanne Impressionist? Die Begegnung zwischen Cézanne und Pissarro." Du 35, no. 9 (September 1975), p. 57, ill.
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Reff, Theodore. "Painting and Theory in the Final Decade." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 25, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 61, ill.
Monneret, Sophie. Cézanne, Zola . . . La Fraternité du génie. Paris: Denoël, 1978, ill. p. 91.
Ponente, Nello. Paul Cézanne. Bologna: Capitol, 1980, pl. 5.
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne. Fribourg: Editions Medea, 1981, pp. 34, 35 (detail).
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 37, ill. in color.
Muller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, no. 4.
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Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 85, ill. in color.
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Naubert-Riser, Constance. Cézanne. London: Studio Editions, 1994, p. 19.
Bonafoux, Pascal. Cézanne, portrait. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 182, ill.
De Lartigue, Charles. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 59, ill.
Patin, Sylvie. Cézanne. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 40.
Schmitt, Evmarie. Cézanne in der Provence. München and New York: Prestel, 1995, p. 44.
Cahn, Isabelle. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 1995, p. 53, 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. 202, ill. vol. 2 as La Maison du pendu, Auvers-sur-Oise.
Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 36, fig. 29 as The House of the Hanged Man, in Auvers-sur-Oise.
Baumann, Felix A. "Beyond the Uniform Picture Surface." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 24, fig. 4 as La Maison du pendu, Auvers-sur-Oise.
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 93, ill. as La Maison du pendu, Auvers-sur-Oise.
Tanaka, Hidemichi. "Cézanne and 'Japonisme.'" Artibus et Historiae 22, no. 44 (2001), p. 202, fig. 1 as La Maison du pendu.
Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Cézanne: le idee, la mostra." In Cezanne: Il padre dei moderni. Milano: Mazzotta, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 26.
Nagaï, Takanori. "Cézanne and Time." 2001.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Zur Rezeptionsgeschichte Cézannes in Deutschland." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel,
Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 124, ill.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Motive: Versuch einer neuen Ordnung." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 204, ill.
Mothe, Alain, et al. Cézanne à Auvers-sur-Oise. Saint-Ouen-L'Aumône: editions du Valharmeil, 2006, pp. 34–35, ill, with photo of motif, p. 35.
Smith, Paul. "Cézanne's Late Landscapes, or the Prospect of Death." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 60, fig. 2 as La Maison du pendu, Auvers-sur-Oise.
D'Souza, Aruna. Cézanne's Bathers. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008, fig. 22, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 96; vol. 2, p. 83 as La Maison du pendu, Auvers-sur-Oise.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection - New Edition. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, fig. 112, ill. p. 154.
Cahn, Isabelle. "Face à la critique." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 183, ill. as La Maison du pendu, Auvers-sur-Oise.
Chiappini, Rudy. "Quel silenzio, in attesa del tempo della rivelazione." In Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi. Milan: Skira, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 28, fig. 10.
Mothe, Alain. Ce que voyait Cézanne: Les paysages impressionnistes à la lumière des cartes postales. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011, pp. 34–35, ill. as La Maison du pendu, Auvers-sur-Oise, with present-day photograph of motif on the rue des Meulières.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed, Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 56, ill. as La Maison du pendu à Auvers-sur-Oise, with photos of site by Mothe and Machotka (p. 56).
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 133, pl. 38.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 73, fig. 17b, with color photo of motif, fig. 17a as La Maison du pendu, Auvers-sur-Oise.
Nagaï, Takanori. "Cézanne and the meaning of 'copying.'" Bijutsu Forum 21 31 (May 2015), p. 123, ill.
Cézanne: Pioneer of Modern Art. Kanagawa: Pola Museum of Art, Pola Art Foundation, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, p. 47, fig. 8.
Warman, Jayne. "Chocquet und Cézanne – eine einzigartige Freundschaft." In Victor Chocquet – Freund und Sammler der Impressionisten, Renoir, Cézanne, Monet, Manet. Bern and Munich: Bundesamt für Kultur and Hirmer Verlag, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, p. 99, pl. 56.
Nagaï, Takanori. "Cézanne and Jas de Bouffan." In Le "basho" dans l'art moderne français. Tokyo: Sangensha, 2016, p. 131, ill.
Kendall, Richard. "Cézanne and His Early Critics." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 1.
Lobstein, Dominique. "'La portée d'une révélation' La réception critique de l'exposition Cézanne au Salon d'automne de 1904." In Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 86, fig. 3.
"What Copying Meant to Cezanne." Aesthetics, no. 21 (2018), fig. 11.
Record last updated January 8, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. "La Maison du pendu, Auvers-sur-Oise, c.1873 (FWN 81)." The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. http://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=206 (accessed on February 22, 2019).