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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)
Catalogue entry
FWN 624
Le Ruisseau
1872–75
Alternate title: Le ruisseau
Rewald (241): 1872–75; Venturi: 1872–74; Cézanne fils: 1875
Oil on canvas
6 1/2 x 8 13/16 in. (16.5 x 22.5 cm)
Signed lower right in red: P. Cezanne
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3318, Le ruisseau. Paysage vert. Deux personnages fantomatiques, 16 x 22 cm (155 frs)
Private collection, Tokyo
Provenance
Julien-François (Père) Tanguy, Paris (?)
Victor Chocquet, Paris;
Mme veuve Chocquet (née Marie Buisson) (1891);
Chocquet Collection, Galerie G. Petit, Paris, July 1-4, 1899, no. 23
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Cerfils, Paris (October 18, 1899)
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Auguste Pellerin, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (March 29, 1911)
Baron Denys Cochin, Paris (November 11, 1912)
Adams Gallery, London
Mouradian & Vallotton, Paris
Private collection, San Francisco
Wildenstein Galleries, New York and Tokyo
Private collection, Tokyo (1974)
Exhibition History
1911a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, L'Eau, June 26–July 13, 1911, no. 6, ill., as Le ruisseau.1974 Tokyo and traveling
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 8. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.Published References
Montjoie! 1913
Montjoie!: organe de l'impérialisme artistique français (Paris) vol. 1, no. 9-10 (June 14–29, 1913), ill. p. 13.Fry 1920
Fry, Roger. Vision and Design. London: Chatto & Windus, 1920, pl. XXVI.Ramuz 1968
Ramuz, Charles Ferdinand. Cézanne Formes. Lausanne: International Art Book, 1968, pl. 5.Rewald 1969
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), p. 84, no. 23, fig. 37 p. 83.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. 241, ill. vol. 2, as Le Ruisseau.Colrat 2013
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 221, pl. 102.Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 175, ill., as Le ruisseau.Record last updated April 5, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Ruisseau, 1872–75 (FWN 624)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=244 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
