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Catalogue entry

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

Keywords

Provenance
(Ambroise Vollard, Paris?)
Ivan Shchukin, Paris;
La Collection d'un Amateur, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Mar. 24, 1900, no. 4 (as Maison à la campagne)
Josse and Gaston Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
Sam Salz, New York
Mr. and Mrs. William Goetz, Los Angeles;
Sotheby's, London, Oct. 14, 1970, no. 4, ill.
Mario de Botton, London;
Christie's, New York, Nov. 13, 1984, no. 129, ill.
Private collection, Los Angeles
Exhibition History
1931a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, May 18–29, 1931.
1936c Paris
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.
1936 Basel
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.
1937a 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.
1938b Amsterdam
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.
1952 Chicago and traveling
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.
1959 San Francisco
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.
1967 Los Angeles
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.
1974 London
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.
1991 Los Angeles
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.
2005–06 New York and traveling
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 1914
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. Cézanne. With contributions by O. Mirbeau, T. Duret, L. Werth, et al. Paris: Editions Hollande, 1914, pl. XXX.
Bernheim-Jeune 1919
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 1921b
Janneau, Guillaume. "Maîtres d'hier et d'aujourd'hui." Arts (Feb.-March 1921), p. 61, ill.
Arishima 1925
Arishima, Ikuma. Sezannu [Cézanne]. Tokyo: Ars, 1925, pl. 16.
Larguier 1925
Larguier, Léo. Le Dimanche avec Paul Cézanne. Paris: L'Edition, 1925, p. 12, ill., as Pontoise.
Besson 1936
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 142, ill. vol. II, as La maison et l'arbre.
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 ...
Besson 1938
Besson, George. Cézanne, 10 Planches en couleurs. Paris: Les Éditions Braune & Cie, 1938(?).
M.V. 1938a
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.
Cogniat 1939a
Cogniat, Raymond. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1939, pl. 23.
Cheney 1947
Cheney, Sheldon. The Story of Modern Art. New York: Viking Press, 1947, p. 215, ill.
Frankfurter 1951
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "The Goetz Collection." Art News 50, no. 5 (September 1951), p. 28, ill.
Bernheim de Villers 1954
Bernheim de Villers, Gaston. Un ami de Cézanne. Paris: Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1954, pl. [2], as La Maison du Pendu.
Raynal 1954
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1954, p. 39, ill.
Beucken 1955
Beucken, Jean de. Un portrait de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, [1955], p. 179.
Gowing 1956
Gowing, Lawrence. "Notes on the Development of Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 98, no. 639 (June 1956), p. 188 (referred to above).
Schapiro 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 57, ill.
Roberts 1974
Roberts, Keith. "London." The Burlington Magazine 116, no. 853 (April 1974), p. 229, fig. 78, p. [227], as La maison et l'arbre.
Wadley 1975
Wadley, Nicholas. Cézanne and His Art. London: Hamlyn, 1975, pl. 84.
Rewald 1986b
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 103, ill.
Wadley 1989
Wadley, Nicholas. Cézanne and His Art. London: Hamlyn, 1989, p. 44, ill. in b/w.
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. 222, ill. vol. 2, as Maison et Arbre, quartier de l'Hermitage, Pontoise.
Machotka 2008
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 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. 50–51, ill., as Maison et Arbre, quartier de l'Hermitage, Pontoise, with present-day photograph of house.
Callen 2015
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 2020
Clark, T.J. "Strange Apprentice (T.J. Clark on Pissarro and Cézanne)." London Review of Books 42, no. 19 (October 8, 2020), ill.
Dauberville 2020
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 2022
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)

La Maison Rondest, quartier de l'Hermitage, Pontoise, c.1874 (FWN 85). Camille Pissarro, La Maison Rondest sous la neige, Pontoise, c. 1875. Private collection.
Camille Pissarro, La Maison Rondest sous la neige, Pontoise, c. 1875. Private collection.
La Maison Rondest, quartier de l'Hermitage, Pontoise, c.1874 (FWN 85). Site probably identified by Pavel Machotka.
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 April 23, 2024).