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 100
Le Clos des Mathurins à Pontoise (l'Hermitage)
1875–77
Alternate titles: Auvers; Haus unter Pinien; Landschaft; Landschaft, Motif aus Pontoise; Landstrasse am Dorf; Le Clos des Mathurins à Pontoise (l'Ermitage); Paysage à Pontoise; Paysage à Pontoise (Clos des Mathurins); Pontoise, vue de l'Hermitage; Road at Pontoise; Route à Pontoise—clos des Mathurins
Rewald (310): 1875–77; Venturi revised: c.1877; Cézanne fils: Pontoise 1880; Venturi (172): 1875–77; Rivière: 1881; Ratcliffe: 1873; Machotka et al: 1875
Oil on canvas
22 13/16 x 28 in. (58 x 71 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Secession, Vienna, Entwicklung des Impressionismus in Malerei u. Plastik: XVI. Ausstellung der Vereinigung bildender Künstler Österreichs, Secession, January–February 1903, no. 58, as Landschaft, Motif aus Pontoise, lent by Viau.
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, Paul Cézanne: 50 Years since His Death, 1956, no. 3, ill.
Pushkin Museum, Moscow, French Art of the Second Half of the 19th Century: From the Stocks of Soviet Art Museums, 1960, p. 34.
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, [Impressionist paintings on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the first exhibition in 1874], 1974, no. 47, ill. 1875.
Tokyo, Masterpieces from the Collection of the Atatale Tret'jakov and the Pushkin Museum, 1975, no. 79.
Villa Favorita, Lugano, Switzerland, Capolavori impressionisti e postimpressionisti dai musei sovietici, June 14–October 15, 1983, no. 3.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Impressionist to Early Modern Paintings from the U.S.S.R., May 1–June 15, 1986, no. 2, ill. Traveled to: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, June 26–August 12, 1986; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, August 23–October 5, 1986.
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Morozov and Shchukin: The Russian Collectors, June 25–October 31, 1993, no. 24, ill. Traveled to: Pushkin Museum, Moscow, November 30, 1993–January 30, 1994; Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, February 16–April 16, 1994.
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 5, ill., (dated c. 1875). Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–1885, June 26–September 12, 2005, no. 54, p. 150 (dated 1875), as Le Clos des Mathurins à Pontoise (l'Hermitage). 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).
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 5, ill.
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, La collection Morozov: icônes de l'art moderne, September 22, 2021–February 22, 2022, p. 489, ill. p. 271, as Paysage à Pontoise.
Published References
Hölzel, Adolf. "Über künstlerische Ausdrucksmittel und deren Verhältnis zu Natur und Bild: III." Die Kunst für Alle 20, no. 6 (December 15, 1904), p. 136, ill.
Duret, Théodore. Histoire des peintres impressionnistes: Pissarro, Claude Monet, Sisley, Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Cézanne, Guillaumin. Paris: H. Floury, 1906, p. 185, ill.
Pica, Vittorio. Gl'Impressionisti Francesi. Bergamo: Istituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche, 1908, p. 200, ill.
Muther, Richard. Geschichte der Malerei, vol. III. Berlin: Neufeld & Hennius, 1909, p. 232, ill., as Landschaft.
Makovsky, Serguei. "[French artists in I. Morosov's collection, Moscow]." Apollon (St. Petersburg) 3, nos. 3–4 (March 1912), listed p. 23, ill. between pp. 36, 37, as Paysage à Pontoise (Clos des Mathurins).
Eddy, Arthur Jerome. Cubists and Post-Impressionism. Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1914, ill. opp. p. 27.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 106.
Friedländer, Max J. "Über Paul Cézanne." Die Kunst für Alle 38 (February 1922), ill. p. 139, as Haus unter Pinien, c. 1876.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 124, as Landschaft, c. 1876.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 210, listed, ill. p. 170, as Auvers.
Ternovietz, Boris Nikolaevich. "Le Musée d'Art moderne de Moscou (Anciennes collections Stchoukine et Morosoff)." L'Amour de l'art 6, no. 12 (December 1925), p. 465, ill. p. 472, as Route à Pontoise—clos des Mathurins.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 29, as Haus unter Pinien, c. 1876.
Catalogue du Musée d'art occidental moderne. Moscow: Museum of Modern Western Art, 1928, no. 556.
Réau, Louis. "III: Musée d'art occidental moderne à Moscou." In Catalogue de l'art français dans les musées russes. Paris: A. Colin, 1929, no. 738.
Benesch, Otto. "Cézanne: zur 30. Wiederkehr seines Todestages am 22. Oktober." Die Kunst für Alle 52, no. 3 (December 1936), ill. p. 60, as Landschaft, c. 1876.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 172, ill. vol. II, as Le Clos des Mathurins à Pontoise (l'Ermitage).
Rewald, John. "Camille Pissarro: His Work and Influence." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 72, no. 423 (June 1938), p. 286, fig. B pl. I p. [284], as Pontoise, vue de l'Hermitage, c. 1873.
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 33.
Loran, Erle. Cézanne's Composition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943, p. 55, pl. VIII.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, fig. 47 (with Pissarro's painting of 1875).
"L'Art moderne français dans…le Musée d'Art Moderne Occidentale." Cahiers d'Art (1950), no. 12, listed p. 338, as Paysage à Pontoise (Clos des Mathurins), 1876.
Sterling, Charles. Musée de l'Ermitage: La Peinture française de Poussin à nos jours. Paris: Cercle d'art, 1957, pl. 91.
Sterling, Charles. Great French Painting in the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. New York: Abrams, 1958, pl. 91.
Sedova, Tat'jana Alekseevna. From Manet to Picasso. Moscow: Izdatelʹstvo Izobrazitelʹnoe Iskusstvo, 1974, no. 25, ill.
Kuznetsova, Irina Aleksandrovna, and Evgenia Georgievskaia. French Painting from the Pushkin Museum: 17th to 20th Century. Leningrad: Aurora, 1979, no. 174, ill.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, p. 129, pl. 8,9.
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 96, ill. (with corresponding painting by Pissarro).
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 118, ill. in color.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 66, ill.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 60, 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. 310, ill. vol. 2, as Le Clos des Mathurins à Pontoise (l'Hermitage).
Brettell, Richard. "Pioneering Modern Painting: the Cézanne and Pissarro exhibition." The Burlington Magazine 147, no. 1231 (October 2005), pp. 682, fig. 38, as Road at Pontoise, 1875.
Pissarro, Joachim. Cézanne/Pissarro, Johns/Rauschenberg: Comparative Studies on Intersubjectivity in Modern Art. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, fig. 18 p. 137, as Le Clos des Mathurins à Pontoise (l'Hermitage), 1875.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 109; vol. 2, p. 87, as Le Clos des Mathurins à Pontoise (l'Hermitage).
Mothe, Alain. Ce que voyait Cézanne: Les paysages impressionnistes à la lumière des cartes postales. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011, pp. 52–53, ill., as Le Clos des Mathurins à Pontoise (l'Hermitage), with old postcard view and the Pissarro of the same site (Pissarro-Snollaerts, no. 408); dated 1875.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed., Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 67, ill., as Le Clos des Mathurins à Pontoise (l'Hermitage), with Pissarro painting from same vantage point (p. 66); dated 1875.
Coutagne, Denis. "Il paesaggio in Cézanne." In Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi. Milan: Skira, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 49, fig. 27.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 73, fig. 39.
Coutagne, Denis. "La sensation de la nature chez Cézanne." In Sensations de nature: de Courbet à Hartung. Paris: Lienart éditions, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 4.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 147, ill., as Paysage à Pontoise (Clos des Mathurins).
Baldassari, Anne, ed. La collection Morozov: icônes de l'art moderne. Paris: Editions Gallimard and Fondation Louis Vuitton, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, p. 489 (listed), ill. p. 271.
Record last updated November 9, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Clos des Mathurins à Pontoise (l'Hermitage), 1875–77 (FWN 100)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=308 (accessed on July 15, 2025).
