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Catalogue entry

FWN 102
La Route; Le Mur d'enceinte
1875–76
Alternate titles: Die Landstrasse; La Route; La Route; also known as Le Mur d'enceinte; Le Mur d'enceinte; Paysage; Etude d'après nature; The Road
Rewald (275): 1875–76; Venturi revised: c.1876; Venturi (158): 1875–76; Gowing: c.1876
Oil on canvas
19 11/16 x 25 5/8 in. (50 x 65 cm)
Signed lower left in red: P. Cezanne

Keywords

Provenance
Victor Chocquet, Paris;
Mme veuve Chocquet (née Marie Buisson) (1891);
Chocquet Collection, Galerie G. Petit, Paris, July 1–4, 1899, no. 14, ill.
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York
Mr. and Mrs. John Barry Ryan, New York;
Estate of Mr. and Mrs. John Barry Ryan, Sotheby's, New York, May 9–10 1995, no. 53, ill.
Julian and Josie Robertson, New York;
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, New Zealand
Exhibition History
1877 Paris
6, rue Le Peletier, Paris, Troisième exposition de peinture, opening April 4, 1877, no. 22, 23, 24 or 25, as Paysage; Etude d'après nature.
1900 Berlin
Bruno and Paul Cassirer, Berlin, III. Jahrgang der Kunst-Austellungen, Winter 1900/1901, November 2 - beginning of December 1900, no. 6, as Die Landstrasse, lent by Durand-Ruel, not for sale.
1904a Weimar
Grossherzoglichen Museum für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe, Weimar, Monet, Manet, Renoir, Cézanne, March 1904, Durand-Ruel (not for sale).
1905 London
Grafton Galleries, London, Pictures by Boudin, Cézanne, Degas, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, January 16-February 18, 1905; extended until February 25, no. 40, (dated 1872), as The Road, lent by Galerie Durand-Ruel.
1907 Strasbourg
Château de Rohan, Strasbourg, France, Art français contemporain, March 2–April 2, 1907, no. 47.
1920d Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, December 1–18, 1920, no. 10, as La Route, lent by Durand-Ruel.
1923c Paris
Chambre syndicale de la Curiosité, 18, rue de la Ville-l'Evêque, Paris, L'Art français au service de la science française, April 25–May 15, 1923, no. 165, as La Route, lent by Durand-Ruel.
1932d New York
Galerie Durand-Ruel, New York, Cézanne, Gauguin, Redon, March 22–April 15, 1932, no. 4, as La Route.
1938c New York
Galerie Durand-Ruel, New York, Cézanne, March 28–April 19, 1938, no. 6.
1940 San Francisco
Palace of Fine Arts, Treasure Island, San Francisco, Golden Gate International Exposition, May 25–September 29, 1940, no. 235, (a painting by Gauguin, no. 268 in the exhibition, was erroneously illustrated, p. 78, in place of this work), as The Road, lent by Durand-Ruel, New York.
1941a Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Aspects of French Painting from Cézanne to Picasso, January 15–March 2, 1941, no. 10, ill.
1961e New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1961, no. 19, lent by Mrs. John Barry Ryan.
1967a New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Summer Loan Exhibition: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture from Private Collections, July–September 1967, no. 17, lent by Mr. John Barry Ryan.
1970a New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, One Hundred Years of Impressionism, April 2–May 9, 1970, no. 30, ill.
Published References
Lecomte 1899
Lecomte, Georges. "Paul Cézanne." Revue de l'Art 1 (December 9, 1899), p. 83, ill., as La Route.
Warncke 1900
W.[arncke], P.[aul]. "Sammlungen und Ausstellungen." Kunstchronik: Wochenschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe Neue Folge XII, no. 7 (November 29, 1900), col. 106, as Die Landstrasse.
Dewhurst 1903
Dewhurst, Wynford. "Impressionist Painting. Its Genesis and Development." Studio (London) 39, no. 121 (April 1903), p. 167, ill.
Dewhurst 1904
Dewhurst, Wynford. Impressionist Painting, Its Genesis and Development. London: George Newnes Ltd, ill, between pp. 16 and 17, as La Route.
Meier-Graefe 1904
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Cézanne und sein Kreis: Paul Cézanne." In Entwicklungsgeschichte der modernen Kunst: vergleichende Betrachtungen der bildenden Künste, als Beitrag zu einer neuen Aesthetik vol. 1. Stuttgart: Jul. Hoffmann, 1904, pl. 63 (vol. 3), as La Route.
Tabarant 1921
T.[abarant], [Adolphe]. "Le Congrès d'histoire de l'art chez Durand-Ruel." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 2, no. 20 (October 15, 1921), ill. p. 544.
Nirdlinger 1932
Nirdlinger, Virginia. "On View in the New York Galleries." Parnassus 4, no. 4 (April 1932), p. 10, mentioned.
Venturi 1935b
Venturi, Lionello. "Paul Cézanne." L'Arte 6, nos. 4 and 5 (July 1935), p. 313, fig. 9.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 158, ill. vol. II, as Le Mur d'enceinte.
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. 56.
Bénédite 1940
Bénédite, Léonce. La peinture au 19e siècle d'après les chefs-d'oeuvre des maîtres et les meilleurs tableaux des principaux artistes. Paris: Flammarion, n.d. [1940], p. 183, ill.
Jewell 1944a
Jewell, Edward Alden. Paul Cézanne. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944, p. 47, ill.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 36, listed p. 148.
Clark 1950
Clark, Kenneth. Landscape Painting. New York: Scribner, 1950, p. 123.
Venturi 1950a
Venturi, Lionello. Impressionists and Symbolists: Manet, Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Scribner, 1950, fig. 122.
Badt 1956
Badt, Kurt. Die Kunst Cézannes. Munich: Prestel, 1956, pl. 23.
Gowing 1956
Gowing, Lawrence. "Notes on the Development of Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 98, no. 639 (June 1956), p. 187.
Venturi 1956b
Venturi, Lionello. Four Steps toward Modern Art: Giorgione, Caravaggio, Manet, Cézanne. New York: Columbia University Press, 1956, fig. 23.
Rewald 1969
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), p. 50; p. 83, no. 14.
Perucchi-Petri 1975
Perucchi-Petri, Ursula. "War Cézanne Impressionist? Die Begegnung zwischen Cézanne und Pissarro." Du 35, no. 9 (September 1975), p. 60, ill.
Venturi 1978
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 64, ill.
Bourges 1982
Bourges, Marianne R. Itinéraires de Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Ville d'Aix-en-Provence, 1982, ill.
Rewald 1986b
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 99, ill.
Verdi 1992
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 72, fig. 58.
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. 275, ill. vol. 2, as La Route; also known as Le Mur d'enceinte.
Feilchenfeldt 2005a
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Zur Rezeptionsgeschichte Cézannes in Deutschland." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 132, ill.
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 104; vol. 2, p. 86, as Le Mur d'enceinte.
Echte and Feilchenfeldt 2011a
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. 344, ill.
Warman 2015
Warman, Jayne. "Chocquet und Cézanne – eine einzigartige Freundschaft." In Victor Chocquet – Freund und Sammler der Impressionisten, Renoir, Cézanne, Monet, Manet. Bern and Munich: Bundesamt für Kultur and Hirmer Verlag, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, p. 110, n.16, French edition: p. 106, n.16.
Record last updated December 5, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Route; Le Mur d'enceinte, 1875–76 (FWN 102)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=276 (accessed on March 29, 2024).