The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
Catalogue entry
FWN 131
Chemin à l'entrée de la forêt
c.1879
Alternate titles: Chemin sous bois; L'Allée
Rewald: (375) c.1879; Venturi revised: 1880–81; Cézanne fils: Melun 1880; Venturi: (320) 1879–82
Oil on canvas
21 5/8 x 17 7/8 in. (55 x 45.5 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 499, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Melun 1880
Private collection
Provenance
Private collection
Exhibition History
18 rue de la Ville-l'Evêque, Paris, Cent Ans de peinture française, au profit du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, March 15–April 20, 1922, no. 28, as L'Allée, lent by Sauphar.
Galerie Durand-Ruel, New York, Cézanne, March 28–April 19, 1938, no. 10.
Paul Rosenberg, New York, A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Cézanne (1839-1906) for the Benefit of Fighting France, November 19–December 19, 1942, no. 3, ill. lent by Salz.
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 25, ill. lent by Private collection, Switzerland.
Published References
Ardenne de Tizac, H. [Henri] d'. "Les collections Sauphar." L'Amour de l'art 5, no. 12 (December 1924), p. 410, fig. 6 p. 411 as Chemin sous bois.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 320, ill. vol. II as Chemin sous bois.
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Cézanne: Intimate Exhibition." Art News 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 14, ill.
Art News (December 2, 1939), p. 12, ill.
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), p. 84, no. 28.
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. 375, ill. vol. 2 as Chemin à l'entrée de la forêt.
Record last updated August 17, 2017. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. "Chemin à l'entrée de la forêt, c.1879 (FWN 131)." The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=371 (accessed on February 28, 2020).
