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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)
Catalogue entry
FWN 107
La Côte Saint-Denis à Pontoise
c.1877
Alternate titles: In the Woods; La Côte de boeufs; La Côte des boeufs, Pontoise; The Côte des Boeufs, L'Hermitage, Pontoise; The Côte Saint-Denis, at Pontoise; Un Coin de bois; Winkel im Gehölz
Rewald (312): c.1877; Venturi revised: c.1877; Venturi (173): 1875–77; Ratcliffe: 1877; Machotka et al: 1877
Oil on canvas
26 x 21 3/8 in. (66 x 54.5 cm)
Signed lower left: P. Cezanne
Private collection, U.S.A.
Provenance
Victor Chocquet, Paris;
Mme veuve Chocquet (née Marie Buisson) (1891);
Chocquet Collection, Galerie G. Petit, Paris, July 1–4, 1899, no. 9
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York
Hunt Henderson, New Orleans (1928);
Christie's, New York, May 15, 2017, no. 19A, ill.
Private collection, U.S.A.
Exhibition History
1900 Berlin
Bruno and Paul Cassirer, Berlin, III. Jahrgang der Kunst-Austellungen, Winter 1900/1901, November 2 - beginning of December 1900, no. 9, as Winkel im Gehölz, 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. 44, ill., (dated 1883), as In the Woods, lent by Galerie Durand-Ruel.1917 Zurich
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Französische Kunst des XIX. und XX. Jahrhunderts, October 5–November 14, 1917, no. 23, (dated 1883), as Un Coin de bois, lent by Durand-Ruel.1920d Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, December 1–18, 1920, no. 4, as Un Coin de bois, lent by Durand-Ruel.1938c New York
Galerie Durand-Ruel, New York, Cézanne, March 28–April 19, 1938, no. 7.1959 New Orleans
Isaac Delgado Museum, New Orleans, Early Masters of Modern Art: A Local Collection Exhibited Anonymously, November–December 1959, no. 5, ill.1961d New York
Knoedler Galleries, New York, French and American Masters of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Celebrated New Orleans Collection, June 10–July 30, 1961.1970–2017 St. Petersburg, Fla.
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1970–2017, on extended loan.2005–06 New York and traveling
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–1885, June 26–September 12, 2005, no. 77, ill., p. 175, as La Côte des boeufs, 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).2020–21 Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Cézanne: In and Out of Time, November 11, 2020–February 8, 2021, lent by Private Collection.2021 Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Paul Cézanne Influence, March 13–October 17, 2021.2022 Oxford
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom, Camille Pissarro: Father of Impressionism, February 18–June 12, 2022, no. 65, ill., as The Côte Saint-Denis, at Pontoise, 1877, Private collection.Published References
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 Winkel im Gehölz.Pica 1908
Pica, Vittorio. Gl'Impressionisti Francesi. Bergamo: Istituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche, 1908, p. 199, ill.Iavorskaia 1935a
Iavorskaia, Nina. Cézanne. Moscow: Ogiz-Izogiz, 1935, pl. 16.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 173, ill. vol. II, as La Côte de boeufs.Goldwater 1938
Goldwater, Robert J. "Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections." Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 152, ill.Rewald 1969
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), p. 82, no. 9.Cachin and Rishel 1995
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 380, fig. 1.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. 312, ill. vol. 2, as La Côte des boeufs, Pontoise.Tucker 2009
Tucker, Paul Hayes. "Trees and Houses near the Jas de Bouffan." In The Robert Lehman Collection, III, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Paintings. New York: Metroplitan Museum of Art, 2009, p. 89, fig. 6, as The Côte des Boeufs, L'Hermitage, Pontoise.Mothe 2011
Mothe, Alain. Ce que voyait Cézanne: Les paysages impressionnistes à la lumière des cartes postales. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011, p. 54, ill., as La Côte Saint-Denis à Pontoise, with present-day photograph of site and corresponding Pissarro.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. 343, ill.Pola Museum of Art 2015
Cézanne: Pioneer of Modern Art. Kanagawa: Pola Museum of Art, Pola Art Foundation, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, p. 45, fig. 7.Clark 2022
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 20.Notes
Alain Mothe suggested a new title La Côte Saint-Denis à Pontoise: The title as it has been known "provient d'une altération du nom de la sente des Boves, qui traverse la côte Saint-Denis." See Pissarro-Snollaerts, no. 488, which is of the same site and dated 1877.
Camille Pissarro, La Côte des Boeufs, Pontoise, 1877. The Naitonal Gallery, London
Record last updated February 10, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Côte Saint-Denis à Pontoise, c.1877 (FWN 107)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=309 (accessed on April 26, 2024).
