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)
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Peter Schälchli, Zürich; © Remagen, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck / Sammlung Rau für UNICEF, GR 1.905
FWN 96
La Mer à l'Estaque
1876
Alternate titles: Blick auf das Meer bei L'Estaque; L'Estaque; Landscape, Study after Nature (The Sea at L'Estaque); Méditerranée or L'Estaque; Paysage: Etude d'après nature; Paysage; Etude d'après nature; The Sea at L'Estaque
Rewald (279): 1876; Venturi revised: 1876–77; Cézanne fils: L'Estaque 1878; Venturi (168): 1876; Cooper: summer 1876; Ratcliffe: summer 1876
Oil on canvas
16 1/2 x 23 3/16 in. (42 x 59 cm)
Signed lower right in red: P. Cezanne
Private collection (on extended loan to the National Gallery, London, since March 2019)
Provenance
Private collection, Switzerland (1975)
Private collection
Exhibition History
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.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 6–17, 1914, no. 19, as L'Estaque, lent by Private collection.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition rétrospective Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) au profit de la caisse du Monument Cézanne, June 1–30, 1926, no. 57, as L'Estaque, lent by Bernheim-Jeune; shown in an installation photo in Dauberville, 2020, p. 117.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 35, pl. XXIII, as L'Estaque, lent by Josse Bernheim-Jeune.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1958, no. 12, as L'Estaque, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Bernhard.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1960, no. 8, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Bernhard.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1961, no. 9, lent by Mrs. Richard J. Bernhard.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, July 3–September 3, 1962, no. 6, lent by Mrs. Richard J. Bernhard.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1963, no. 6.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Collects: Paintings, Watercolors and Sculpture from Private Collections, July 3–September 2, 1968, no. 26, as L'Estaque, lent by Mrs. Richard J. Bernhard.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., The New Painting, Impressionism: 1874–1886, January 17–April 6, 1986, no. 43, ill., as Paysage: Etude d'après nature, c. 1876, Private collection, Switzerland. Traveled to: de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, April 19–July 6, 1986.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 19, ill.
Musée Cantini, Marseille, France, L'Estaque, naissance du paysage moderne, 1870–1910, June 25–September 25, 1994, no. 9, ill. dated 1882–85.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, From Manet to Gauguin: Masterpieces from Swiss Private Collections, June 30–October 8, 1995, no. 4, ill.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 44, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, De Fra Angelico à Bonnard: Chefs-d'oeuvre de la Collection Rau, July 12, 2000–January 4, 2001, no. 55, ill. in color, pp. 150–51. Traveled to: Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, September 4, 2004–May 30, 2005.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne, Renoir, Picasso & Co., September 17, 2011–January 29, 2012, listed p. 283, ill. pp. 54–55 and cover, as Blick auf das Meer bei L'Estaque, lent by Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck/Sammlung Rau fur UNICEF.
Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, Germany, Henry Moore. Vision, Creation, Obsession, May 28, 2017–January 7, 2018, no. 54, ill., as The Sea at L'Estaque.
Published References
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. Cézanne. With contributions by O. Mirbeau, T. Duret, L. Werth, et al. Paris: Editions Hollande, 1914, pl. XXXIX.
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. 24.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 168, ill. vol. II, as La Mer à l'Estaque.
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 ...
Commandement en chef français en Allemagne. Répertoire des biens spoliés en France durant la guerre 1939-1945, tome II, tableaux - tapisseries - sculpture (List of Property removed from France during the war 1939-1945, Volume 2, paintings, tapestries and sculpture). G. Glasser, directeur des réparations et restitutions. Berlin, 1947, p. 327, no. 7407, 34.572 , ill. p. 341 t, as L'Estaque, 42 x 50cm, Jean Bernheim Jeune.
Ratcliffe, Robert W. "Cézanne's Working Methods and Their Theoretical Background." London: Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 1960, dated summer 1876.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 375, ill.
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), pp. 46, 50, fig. 8 p. 45; p. 82, no. 2.
Rewald, John. "Chocquet and Cézanne." In Studies in Impressionism, Edited by Irene Gordon and Frances Weitzenhoffer. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1986, p. 135, fig. 72, as L'Estaque.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 93, ill.
Schmitt, Evmarie. Cézanne in der Provence. München and New York: Prestel, 1995, pp. 50-1.
Coutagne, Denis. "Les paysages." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. pp. 10-11, 1883-86.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 98.
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. 279, ill. vol. 2, as La Mer à l'Estaque.
Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 11, fig. 3, as Landscape, Study after Nature (The Sea at L'Estaque).
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 113, fig. 3.11, as La Mer à l'Estaque.
Kear, Jonathan. "Leaving L'Estaque. Cézanne's Imagery of Provence in the 1880s." Art on the Line, 2003, pp. 7–8, fig. 2.
Pissarro, Joachim. Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–85. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 57, fig. 56.
Mothe, Alain, et al. Cézanne à Auvers-sur-Oise. Saint-Ouen-L'Aumône: editions du Valharmeil, 2006, p. 118, ill.
Serrano, Véronique. "Cézanne's L'Estaque: Something More Secret." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 130, fig. 9, as La Mer à l'Estaque.
Conisbee, Philip. "Cézanne's Provence." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 14, fig. 15, as La Mer à l'Estaque.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 105; vol. 2, p. 86, as La Mer à l'Estaque.
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Estaque, Art et Patrimoine, Chronique d'une double histoire. Gémenos: Groupe Horizon, 2013, p. 183, ill.
Cézanne, Paul. The Letters of Paul Cézanne. Edited and translated by Alex Danchev. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson; Getty Publications, 2013, p. 160, n. 1, ill. p. 157.
Cézanne: Pioneer of Modern Art. Kanagawa: Pola Museum of Art, Pola Art Foundation, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, p. 48, fig. 9.
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. 101, pl. 58.
Kendall, Richard. "Cézanne and His Early Critics." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 6.
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Oeuvre de Cezanne à L'Estaque, Huiles – Aquarelles – Dessins, 1864–1885. Marseille: Éditions Gaussen, 2019, fig. 27 (discussion p. 35), as La Mer à l'Estaque.
Blanc, Geneviève. Et si L'Estaque m'était contée? [privately published], 2020, p. 20, ill. with photo of motif.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 122, ill., as Méditerranée or L'Estaque, photograph of work in the Bernheim-Jeune residence at 107 avenue Henri Martin, pp. 6 and 7.
Smith, Paul. "Vermilion, or why Cézanne took the shine off things." Word & Image 36, nio. 1 (2020), p. 69, ill.
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 42.
Notes
Cézanne, stayed in L'Estaque with Hortense Fiquet and their son Paul from June to the end of August 1876. While there he wrote on July 2nd to Camille Pissarro: "J'ai commencé deux petits motifs où il y a la mer, pour Monsieur Chocquet, qui m'en avait parlé – C'est comme une carte à jouer. Des toits rouges sur la mer bleue. Si le temps devient propice peut-être pourrais-je les pousser jusqu'au bout." (Corréspondance, Paris, 1978, p. 195) The second painting, which Chocquet never received, may have been La Baie de l'Estaque vue de l'est, c.1876–79 (97), completed later.
Record last updated March 24, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Mer à l'Estaque, 1876 (FWN 96)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=279 (accessed on March 17, 2025).
