The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
FWN 110
La Route tournante
c.1877
Alternate titles: La route tournante or Le chemin tournante; Le Chemin tournant; Le Val-Fleury; Turning Road
Rewald: (388) c.1877; Venturi revised: 1880–81; Venturi: (177) 1875–77; Rivière: 1874
Oil on canvas
18 7/8 x 23 3/16 in. (48 x 59 cm)
Signed lower left: P. Cezanne
Private Collection, Washington, D.C.
Provenance
Private collection, Lausanne
Private collection, Washington, D.C.
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 6–17, 1914, no. 18, as Le Chemin tournant, lent by Private collection.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, The Landscape in French Painting: XIX–XX Centuries, October–November 1931, no. 22, as La Route tournante.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 18, lent by Mrs. Watson-Hughes.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–1885, June 26–September 12, 2005, no. 72, ill., p. 171 (dated c. 1875–77), as La Route tournante, lent by Joe L. Albritton. 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.
Published References
Trublot, [P. Alexis]. "A Minuit: La Collection Murer." Le Cri du Peuple, October 21, 1887, no. 4, as Le Val-Fleury.
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. Cézanne. With contributions by O. Mirbeau, T. Duret, L. Werth, et al. Paris: Editions Hollande, 1914, pl. XXXVIII.
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. L'Art moderne et quelques aspects de l'art d'autrefois: cent-soixante-treize planches d'après la collection privée de MM. J. & G. Bernheim-Jeune, poèmes de Henri de Régnier , 2 vols. Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1919, pl. 21.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 201, listed.
Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, ill. opposite p. 133.
Bernard, Émile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne, Une Conversation avec Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1926, ill. opp. p. 52.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 47, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 177, ill. vol. II, as La Route tournante.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 47, ill.
Gachet, Paul. Deux amis des impressionnistes: le Docteur Gachet et Murer. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1956, p. 171 (reprint of article by Alexis).
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 359, ill. (with the painting by Guillaumin).
Rewald, John. "Cézanne et Guillaumin." Etudes d'art français offertes à Charles Sterling. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1975, fig. 219 (with corresponding painting by Guillaumin).
Rewald, John. "Cézanne and Guillaumin." In Studies in Impressionism, Edited by Irene Gordon and Frances Weitzenhoffer. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., p. 112, fig. 60, as Turning Road.
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. 388, ill. vol. 2, as La Route tournante.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 82, ill., as La route tournante or Le chemin tournante, installation photograph from the 1914 exhibition, p. 100; photograph of work in the Bernheim-Jeune residence, p. 7.
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 22.
Chédeville, François, and Raymond Hurtu. "Cezanne sur les bords de Marne." Société Cezanne, August 2021, fig. 22.
Record last updated March 24, 2022. 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. "La Route tournante, c.1877 (FWN 110)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=384 (accessed on May 29, 2023).
