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 85
La Maison Rondest, quartier de l'Hermitage, Pontoise
c.1874
Alternate titles: Das Haus und der Baum; Het huis van den gahangene te Auvers; L'Arbre et la Maison; La Maison du Pendu; La maison du pendu à Auvers; La maison du pendu or L'arbre et la maison; La maison et l'arbre; Maison et Arbre, quartier de l'Hermitage, Pontoise; Pontoise; The House and the Tree
Rewald (222): c.1874; Venturi revised: 1872–73; Cézanne fils: Auvers 1873; Venturi (142): 1872–73; Gowing: 1877; Ratcliffe: end of 1874 or beginning of 1875; Machotka et al: circa 1874
Oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 21 1/4 in. (65 x 54 cm)
Signed lower left in red: P. Cezanne
Vollard archives: photo no. 233, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Auvers 1873
Private collection, Los Angeles
Provenance
Private collection, Los Angeles
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, May 18–29, 1931.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 27, as L'Arbre et la Maison, lent by Gaston Bernheim de Villers.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 10, as Das Haus und der Baum, 1872-73, lent by Gaston Bernheim de Villers, Paris.
Palais National des Arts, Paris, Chefs-d'oeuvres de l'art français [World's Fair], June–October 1937, no. 247, pl. 113, as L'Arbre et la Maison, lent by M/M Gaston B. de V.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Honderd jaar Fransche kunst, July 2–September 25, 1938, no. 7, as La maison du pendu à Auvers, lent by Gaston B. de V.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 16, ill. lent by Goetz. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. William Goetz, April 18–May 31, 1959, no. 10, ill.
City National Bank, Los Angeles, Selected Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. William Goetz, January 1967, no. 18, as La Maison du Pendu.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Impressionism: Its Masters, Its Precursors, and Its Influence in Britain, February 9–April 28, 1974, no. 52, pl. XVI, as La maison et l'arbre, lent by Private collection.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Monet to Matisse: French Art in Southern California Collections, June 9–August 11, 1991, no. 63, as The House and the Tree, lent by Private collection.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–1885, June 26–September 12, 2005, no. 41, p. 132, as Maison et Arbre, quartier de l'Hermitage, Pontoise, lent by Private collection, California. 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
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. Cézanne. With contributions by O. Mirbeau, T. Duret, L. Werth, et al. Paris: Editions Hollande, 1914, pl. XXX.
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. L'Art moderne et quelques aspects de l'art d'autrefois: cent-soixante-treize planches d'après la collection privée de MM. J. & G. Bernheim-Jeune, poèmes de Henri de Régnier , 2 vols. Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1919, pl. 9, as La Maison du Pendu.
Janneau, Guillaume. "Maîtres d'hier et d'aujourd'hui." Arts (Feb.-March 1921), p. 61, ill.
Larguier, Léo. Le Dimanche avec Paul Cézanne. Paris: L'Edition, 1925, p. 12, ill., as Pontoise.
Besson, George (introduction). "Paul Cézanne: 1839–1906." Estampes. Paris: Braun & Cie, August 1936 (no. 4), fig. 16 p. 10 et no. 17919 p. 14 (portfolio of 10 color plates).
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 142, ill. vol. II, as La maison et l'arbre.
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 ...
Besson, George. Cézanne, 10 Planches en couleurs. Paris: Les Éditions Braune & Cie, 1938(?).
M.V. "Een eerezaal voor den meester van Aix: […] De Fransche expositie te Amsterdam." Algemeen Handelsblad (Amsterdam), August 5, 1938, ill. p. 9, as Het huis van den gahangene te Auvers.
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "The Goetz Collection." Art News 50, no. 5 (September 1951), p. 28, ill.
Bernheim de Villers, Gaston. Un ami de Cézanne. Paris: Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1954, pl. [2], as La Maison du Pendu.
Gowing, Lawrence. "Notes on the Development of Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 98, no. 639 (June 1956), p. 188 (referred to above).
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 57, ill.
Roberts, Keith. "London." The Burlington Magazine 116, no. 853 (April 1974), p. 229, fig. 78, p. [227], as La maison et l'arbre.
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. 222, ill. vol. 2, as Maison et Arbre, quartier de l'Hermitage, Pontoise.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 101, as Maison et Arbre, quartier de l'Hermitage, Pontoise.
Mothe, Alain. Ce que voyait Cézanne: Les paysages impressionnistes à la lumière des cartes postales. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011, pp. 50–51, ill., as Maison et Arbre, quartier de l'Hermitage, Pontoise, with present-day photograph of house.
Callen, Anthea. The Work of Art: Plein-air Painting and Artistic Identiy in the Nineteenth-century France. London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2015, pp. 206-7, figs. 152, 153 (detail), as The House and the Tree, 1873-74.
Clark, T.J. "Strange Apprentice
(T.J. Clark on Pissarro and Cézanne)." London Review of Books 42, no. 19 (October 8, 2020), ill.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 58, ill., as La maison du pendu or L'arbre et la maison, installation photograph from 1931 exhibition, p. 124; photograph of painting hanging in Bernheim-Jeune residence at 107 avenue Henri Martin, pp. 8 and 9.
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 8.
Notes
The house is featured in a number of paintings by Pissarro and is situated rue de la Côte-du-Jalet (now 51, rue Victor-Hugo). (Mothe 2011)
Camille Pissarro, La Maison Rondest sous la neige, Pontoise, c. 1875. Private collection.
Site probably identified by Pavel Machotka.
Photo: Pavel Machotka; © Courtesy Pavel Machotka Archive
Record last updated March 29, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Maison Rondest, quartier de l'Hermitage, Pontoise, c.1874 (FWN 85)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=226 (accessed on October 6, 2024).
