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 82
Petites maisons à Pontoise, près d'Auvers-sur-Oise
1873–74
Alternate titles: Auvers – Les petites maisons; Auvers, Small Houses; Cottages at Auvers; Houses at Auvers; Kleine Häuser in Antwerpen [sic: Auvers]; Landschaft; Les petites maisons à Auvers; Les petites Maisons d'Auvergne; Maisons à Auvers; Petites maisons à Auvers; Petites maisons à Pontoise; Petites maisons près d'Auvers-sur-Oise; Small houses, Auvers
Rewald (220): 1873–74; Venturi revised: 1872–73; Cézanne fils: Melun 1880; Venturi (156): 1873–74; Rivière: c.1872–73; Ratcliffe: 1874–75; Machotka et al: circa 1874
Oil on canvas
15 7/8 x 21 3/8 in. (40.5 x 54.5 cm)
Signed lower left in red: P. Cezanne
Vollard archives: photo no. 119, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Melun 1880
Provenance
Exhibition History
Bruno and Paul Cassirer, Berlin, III. Jahrgang der Kunst-Austellungen, Winter 1900/1901, November 2 - beginning of December 1900, no. 5, as Kleine Häuser in Antwerpen [sic: Auvers], lent by Durand-Ruel, not for sale.
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Salle Cézanne, October 15–November 15, 1904, no. 22, as Les petites Maisons d'Auvergne, lent by Durand-Ruel.
Grafton Galleries, London, Pictures by Boudin, Cézanne, Degas, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, January 16-February 18, 1905; extended until February 25, no. 41, (dated 1881), as Cottages at Auvers, lent by Galerie Durand-Ruel.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, December 1–18, 1920, no. 5, as Auvers – Les petites maisons, lent by Durand-Ruel.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition Paul Cézanne (au profit de la caisse du monument Cézanne), March 3–24, 1924.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, The Mrs. L.L. Coburn Collection: Modern Paintings and Watercolors, April 6–October 9, 1932, no. 2.
William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, One Hundred Years of French Painting, March 31–April 28, 1935, no. 5.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 3, ill. lent by the Fogg Art Musuem.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 5, lent by Fogg.
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, Monet and the Beginnings of Impressionism, October 8–November 6, 1949, no. 26.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, The Two Sides of the Medal: French painting from Gèrôme to Gauguin, September 28–October 31, 1954, extended until November 11, no. 97, as Auvers, Small Houses.
Orangerie, Paris, Van Gogh et les peintres d'Auvers-sur-Oise, November 26, 1954–February 28, 1955, no. 15, ill., pl. VIII, as Petites maisons à Auvers, 1875 (?)
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 9, ill. lent by Fogg.
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 12, ill.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–1885, June 26–September 12, 2005, no. 44, ill., p. 135 (dated c. 1874), as Petites maisons près d'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
Duret, Théodore. "Paul Cézanne." Kunst und Künstler 5, no. 3 (1907), ill. p. 104, as Landschaft.
"Le courrier de la presse: Paul Cézanne." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 1, no. 26 (December 15, 1920), ill. p. 747, as Maisons à Auvers.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 200, listed, ill. opp. p. 134, as Auvers – Les petites maisons.
T.[abarant], [Adolphe]. "Quelques propos sur Cézanne." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 5, no. 5 (March 1, 1924), ill. p. 104.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 156, ill. vol. II, as Les petites maisons à Auvers.
"California Exhibits Cézanne." The Art News 36, no. 2 (October 9, 1937), p. 15, ill., as Houses at Auvers.
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), p. 43; p. 83, no. 15.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 35, ill.
Sheon, Aaron. Monticelli: His Contemporaries, His Influence. Pittsburgh: Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, 1978. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 57.
Shikes, Ralph E., and Paula Harper. Pissarro: His Life and Work. New York: Horizon, 1980, p. 129, ill. with related gouache by Pissarro.
Jones, Caroline A. Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums. New York: Abbeville Press, 1985, p. 50, no. 39, ill.
Brettell, Richard. Pissarro and Pontoise: The Painter in a Landscape. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990, p. 166, fig. 145.
Thorold, Anne. "Learning from Pissarro: The artist as teacher." Apollo (London) 136, no. 369 (November 1992), fig. 3 p. 333, as Small houses, Auvers, 1874-5.
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. 220, ill. vol. 2, as Petites maisons près d'Auvers-sur-Oise.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Zur Rezeptionsgeschichte Cézannes in Deutschland." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel,
Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 133, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 99; vol. 2, p. 86, as Petites maisons près d'Auvers-sur-Oise.
Mothe, Alain. Ce que voyait Cézanne: Les paysages impressionnistes à la lumière des cartes postales. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011, pp. 46–47, ill., as Petites maisons à Pontoise, with old postcard view of house titled "Établissements Fauvel, horticulteur"; the house at right still exists at 39, rue des Coteaux in Pontoise.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Sammlungen Paul Cézanne, Louis Corinth, […], 2. November bis Anfang Dezember 1900." Kunstsalon Bruno & Paul Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1898-1901. vol. 1, «Das Beste aus aller Welt zeigen». Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2011, p. 340, ill.
Notes
Alain Mothe has identified the site. The house at the right in the painting still exists in Pontoise at 39, rue des Coteaux in an area called Le Chou. The same houses appear in Pissarro's La Récolte des pommes de terre, Pontoise, 1874.
Postcard view of the motif. The house still exists at 39, rue des Couteaux in Pontoise
Photo: Courtesy Alain Mothe
Camille Pissarro, La Récolte des pommes de terre, Pontoise, 1874. Private collection.
Record last updated March 28, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Petites maisons à Pontoise, près d'Auvers-sur-Oise, 1873–74 (FWN 82)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=224 (accessed on September 10, 2024).
