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 105
Groupe de maisons – Les Toits
1876–77
Alternate titles: Die Dächer; Faubourg au printemps; Groupe de maisons (Les Toits); Les Toits; Maison or Les Toits
Rewald (295): 1876–77; Venturi revised: c.1877; Venturi (1515): c.1877
Oil on canvas
19 11/16 x 23 5/8 in. (50 x 60 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 147, (dated c. 1877), as Die Dächer, lent by Frau A. Hahnloser.
Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland, Die Hauptwerke der Sammlung Hahnloser Winterthur, 1940, no. 30.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Aspects of French Painting from Cézanne to Picasso, January 15–March 2, 1941, no. 14.
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 17, ill.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 22, ill. lent by Jäggli-Hahn.
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, (Kunsthaus Lempertz), Cologne, Cézanne, Ausstellung zum Gedenken an sein 50. Todesjahr, December 1956–January 1957, no. 9, ill. lent by Frau Jäggli-Hahnloser.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 21, ill.
Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, Verzauberte Zeit – Cézanne, van Gogh, Bonnard, Manguin: Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Arthur und Hedy Hahnloser-Bühler, February 20–August 16, 2015. Traveled to: Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, September 10–February 7, 2015 (Villa Flora - Les temps echantés); Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle/Saale, Germany, March 12–September 11, 2016 (Magie des Augenblicks - Van Gogh, Cézanne, Bonnard, Vallotton, Matisse: Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Arthur und Hedy Hahnloser-Bühler); Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany, February 3–June 18, 2017 (Aufbruch Flora - Bonnard, Cézanne, Manet, Vallotton, van Gogh: Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Arthur und Hedy Hahnloser-Bühler).
Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Die Sehnsucht lässt alle Dinge blühen … Die Sammlung Hahnloser. Van Gogh bis Cézanne, Bonnard bis Matisse, August 11, 2017–March 11, 2018, no. 22, ill. lent by Private collecltion.
Albertina Museum, Vienna, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Matisse, Hodler, The Hahnloser Collection, February 22–May 24, 2020, no. 10, ill., as Groupe de maisons (Les Toits), Permanent loan to the Hahnloser/Jaeggli Foundation, Villa Flora, Winterthur.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1515, ill. vol. II, as Les Toits.
Raynal, Maurice, Jean Leymarie, and Herbert Read. Histoire de la peinture moderne [1]: de Baudelaire à Bonnard, naissance d'une vision nouvelle. Geneva: Skira, 1949, ill. p. 36, as Faubourg au printemps, c. 1877.
"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), p. 63, ill.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 71, ill.
Perucchi-Petri, Ursula, and Margrit Hahnloser-Ingold. Villa Flora Winterthur. Winterthur: Trägerverein Flora, 1995, as Groupe de maisons – Les Toits.
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. 295, ill. vol. 2, Groupe de Maisons (Les Toits).
Margrit Hahnloser-Ingold et al. The Arthur and Hedy Hahnloser Collection, An Eye for Art Shared with Artists. New York: Distributed Art Publishers (D.A.P.), 2011, p. 25, ill. Private collection, Winterthur, Villa Flora.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed., Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 39, ill., as Groupe de maisons – Les Toits.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 86, ill., as Maison or Les Toits.
Nagaï, Takanori. "L'idée de l'anti-modernisation social chez Cézanne." Bulletin of Kyoto Institute of Technology 14 (February 2022), fig. 37.
Notes
This work was probably painted outside of Paris, although the exact location has not been identified.
Record last updated March 31, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Groupe de maisons – Les Toits, 1876–77 (FWN 105)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=293 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
