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 1062
Paysage à Médan: arbres et chaumières
1879–80
Alternate titles: Arbres de chaumières; Landscape at Médan; Landschaft bei Médan; Landschaftsstudie; Paysage à Médan
Venturi (1588): 1879–82; Chappuis (787): 1879–80
Graphite on laid paper
Watermark: Desloye "E D & Cie" in cartouche
10 3/8 x 11 13/16 in. (26.4 x 30 cm)
Exhibition History
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Meisterzeichnungen französischer Künstler von Ingres bis Cézanne, June 29–August 18, 1935, no. 202, as Landschaftsstudie, lent by Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel.
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 109, 1879-82, lent by Kunstmuseum Basel.
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September 19–November 4, 1973, no. 38, ill. in b/w, catalogue note: pp. 157-158, as Landscape at Médan, lent by Kunstmuseum Basel. Traveled to: Hayward Gallery, London, November 13–December 30, 1973.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 76, ill. p. 173, as Landschaft bei Médan, c. 1880, lent by Kunstmuseum Basel.
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 51, ill., p. 60.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: The Basel Sketchbooks, March 10–June 5, 1988, listed p. 145, fig. 18 p. 31.
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 30, ill. in b/w, as Landscape at Médan, lent by Kunstmuseum Basel.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 160, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1588, ill. vol. II, as Arbres de chaumières.
Chappuis, Adrien. Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle. Olten and Lausanne: Urs Graf, 1962, no. 87, ill.
Hohl, Reinhold. "Landschaftsaquarelle von Paul Cézanne." Werkzeitung der J.R. Geigy AG 24, no. 6 (November/December 1966), p. 20, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 787, ill., as Landscape at Médan.
Koepplin, Dieter. Paul Cézanne: Die Basler Zeichnungen. Basel: Kunstmuseum, 1988, no. 51, ill.
Gowing, Lawrence. Paul Cézanne: The Basel Sketchbooks. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1988. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 18 p. 31, listed p. 145, exhibited.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 204, ill.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 216, fig. 2 p. 217, as Paysage à Médan, 1879-1880.
Ruppen, Fabienne. "Paul Cézanne's Loose Sheets in the Kupferstichkabinett of the Kunstmuseum Basel." In The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas. Basel: Prestel, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 226, fig. 9 (detail).
Ruppen, Fabienne. "Mapping Cézanne. Drawings and Watercolors on Paper from Émile Desloye." November 2020, pp. 217–29, figs. 2, 3 (detail), 5 (detail), 8.
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Record last updated August 17, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Paysage à Médan: arbres et chaumières, 1879–80 (FWN 1062)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2464 (accessed on May 19, 2025).
