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Catalogue entry

FWN 131
Chemin à l'entrée de la forêt
c.1879
Alternate titles: Chemin en forêt; 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
Sotheby's, London

Keywords

Provenance
Victor Chocquet, Paris;
Mme veuve Chocquet (née Marie Buisson) (1891);
Chocquet Collection, Galerie G. Petit, Paris, July 1–4, 1899, no. 28
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris
Jules Strauss, Paris;
Strauss Collection, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 3, 1902, no. 10, ill.
Lucien Sauphar, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (May 26, 1908)
Georges Bernheim, Paris
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris
Sam Salz, New York
Guy Bjorkman, New York and Geneva;
Estate of Guy Bjorkman, Christie's, New York, May 8, 2000, no. 17, ill.
Private collection
Private collection, USA;
Sotheby's, London, June 27, 2023, no. 142, ill.
Exhibition History
1922c Paris
Chambre syndicale de la Curiosité, 18, rue de la Ville-l'Evêque, Paris, Cent ans de peinture française: exposition au profit du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, March 15–April 20, 1922, no. 28, as L'Allée, lent by Sauphar.
1931a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, May 18–29, 1931.
1938c New York
Galerie Durand-Ruel, New York, Cézanne, March 28–April 19, 1938, no. 10.
1942d New York
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.
2017 Martigny
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 1924
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 320, ill. vol. II, as Chemin sous bois.
Frankfurter 1938a
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Cézanne: Intimate Exhibition." Art News 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 14, ill.
Art News 1939b
The Art News (December 2, 1939), p. 12, ill.
Rewald 1969
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), p. 84, no. 28.
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. 375, ill. vol. 2, as Chemin à l'entrée de la forêt.
Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 66, ill., as Chemin en forêt.
Record last updated June 26, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Chemin à l'entrée de la forêt, c.1879 (FWN 131)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=371 (accessed on April 25, 2024).