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 106
L'Étang des Sœurs à Osny, près de Pontoise
1877
Alternate titles: Bois des soeurs; L'Étang des soeurs à Osny; L'Etang des Soeurs, at Osny near Pontoise; L'Etang des Sœurs, Osny; Le Bois des soeurs; Paysage (Pontoise); The Etang des Soeurs at Osny, near Pontoise
Rewald (307): 1877; Venturi revised: c.1882; Venturi (174): 1875–77; Cooper: 1877; Gowing: 1877 (Edinburgh); Ratcliffe: summer 1877
Oil on canvas
23 5/8 x 28 7/8 in. (60 x 73.5 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Französische Kunst des XIX. und XX. Jahrhunderts, October 5–November 14, 1917, no. 19, as Bois des soeurs, lent by A.K[ann].
Thomas Agnew & Sons, Manchester, United Kingdom, Masterpieces of 19th Century French Art, November (?) 1923, no. 4, as Le Bois des soeurs.
Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, Masterpieces of French Art, June 29 - end of July, no. 3, as Le Bois des soeurs, lent by Courtauld.
Leicester Galleries, London, Paintings and Drawings by Paul Cézanne, June–July 1925, no. 15, as Le Bois des soeurs, lent by S. Courtauld.
Tate Gallery, London, Samuel Courtauld: Memorial Exhibition, May–June 1948, no. 5, as L'Etang des Soeurs, at Osny near Pontoise, 1877.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Landscape in French Art, 1550–1900, December 10, 1949–March 5, 1950, no. 310, as L'Etang des Soeurs, at Osny near Pontoise, 1877, lent by the Home House Trustees.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 16, as L'Étang des Sœurs à Osny, près de Pontoise, c. 1877, lent by the Home House Trustees. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Impressionnistes de la Collection Courtauld de Londres, October 1955, no. 3, pl. 36.
Arts Council of Great Britain, London, Samuel Courtauld's Collection of French 19th Century Paintings and Drawings, July–August 1976, no. 4.
Takashimaya, Tokyo, The Impressionists and the Post-Impressionists from the Courtauld Collection, January 12–February 28, 1984, no. 7. Traveled to: Takashimaya, Kyoto, Japan, March 8–April 3, 1984; Takashimaya, Osaka, Japan, April 12–May 8, 1984.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Impressionist & Post-Impressionist Masterpieces: The Courtauld Collection, January 14–March 8, 1987, no. 21. Traveled to: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 4–June 21, 1987; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, July 11–September 27, 1987; Art Institute, Chicago, October 17, 1987–January 3, 1988; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, January 30–April 3, 1988.
Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, Impressionism for England: Samuel Courtauld as Patron and Collector, June 17–September 25, 1994, no. 4.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–1885, June 26–September 12, 2005, no. 63, ill., p. 159 (dated c. 1875), as L'Étang des Sœurs à Osny, près de Pontoise. Traveled to: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, October 20, 2005–January 16, 2006; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, February 27–May 28, 2006 (Cézanne et Pissarro 1865-1885).
National Gallery, London, Cézanne in Britain, October 4, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 16, ill., as L'Etang des Sœurs, Osny, c. 1877.
The Courtauld Gallery, London, The Courtauld Cézannes, June 26–October 5, 2008, no. 1, ill., pp. 74–77 (dated c. 1875), as L'Étang des Sœurs à Osny, près de Pontoise.
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, La Collection Courtauld: le parti de l'impressionnsime, February 20–June 17, 2019. (Exhibition catalogue: Serres et al 2019), no. 32, ill., as L'Etang des Sœurs, Osny, c. 1875.
KODE Art Museums, Bergen, Norway, Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Courtauld at KODE Art Museums, July 16–October 10, 2021, no. 1, ill. c. 1875.
Published References
Phillips, Sir Claude. "Agnew's Galleries: Masterpieces of French Art." The Daily Telegraph (London) (July 3, 1923), p. 12, as Le Bois des soeurs.
Dormoy, Marie. "La Collection Courtauld." L'Amour de l'art 10, nos. 1 et 2 (January et February 1929), ill. p. 16, as Le Bois des soeurs.
Catalogue of the Pictures and Other Works of Art at Home House, 20 Portman Square, London. London: Home House Trustees, 1935, no. 74, as Bois des soeurs.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 174, ill. vol. II, as L'Étang des Sœurs à Osny, près de Pontoise.
Gowing, Lawrence. "The Logic of Organized Sensations." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 56, ill.
Stokes, Adrian. "Cézanne." In The Critical Writings of Adrian Stokes, vol. 2, 1937–58. London: Thames & Hudson, 1978, fig. 96 (erroneously illustrated).
Kendall, Richard. The History and Techniques of the Great Master Cézanne. London: Tiger Books International, 1989, p. 31, ill.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 380, fig. 2.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, pp. 53-54, ill.
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. 307, ill. vol. 2, as L'Étang des Sœurs à Osny, près de Pontoise.
Reff, Theodore. Review of The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, by John Rewald, in collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. The Burlington Magazine 139, no. 1136 (November 1997), p. 800, does not agree with Rewald's date on stylistic grounds if compared to no. 726.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 108; vol. 2, p. 88, as L'Étang des Sœurs à Osny, près de Pontoise.
Mothe, Alain. Ce que voyait Cézanne: Les paysages impressionnistes à la lumière des cartes postales. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011, pp. 74–75, ill., as L'Étang des Sœurs à Osny, près de Pontoise, with old postcard view of the park at the Château de Busagny to suggest a possible site.
Machotka, Pavel. "Des paysages du nord aux premiers pas du cubisme." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 189, fig. 102, as L'Étang des soeurs à Osny.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 79, fig. 19b, with black and white postcard of the probable site, p. 78, fig. 19a, as L'Étang des Sœurs à Osny, près de Pontoise.
Callen, Anthea. The Work of Art: Plein-air Painting and Artistic Identiy in the Nineteenth-century France. London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2015, pp. 183-6, 191, figs. 142, 143 (detail), as The Etang des Soeurs at Osny, near Pontoise, c. 1875.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 159, ill., as Paysage (Pontoise).
Locke, Nancy. "Picquer, Plaquer: Cézanne, Pissarro, and Palette Knife Painting." In A Companion to Impressionism, André Dombrowski, ed. Newark: John Wiley & Sons, 2021, fig. 9.5
Record last updated March 21, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Étang des Sœurs à Osny, près de Pontoise, 1877 (FWN 106)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=305 (accessed on December 13, 2024).
