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Catalogue entry

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
Vollard archives: photo no. 105
Private Collection, Washington, D.C.

Keywords

Provenance
Eugène Murer, Auvers-sur-Oise and Paris?
M. Bourdin, Paris
Josse and Gaston Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
Galerie E. Bignou, Paris
Mrs. Watson-Hughes, England
Private collection, Lausanne
Christie's, New York, Nov. 18, 1998, no. 34, ill.
Private collection, Washington, D.C.
Exhibition History
1914a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 6–17, 1914, no. 18, as Le Chemin tournant, lent by Private collection.
1931d New York
Knoedler Galleries, New York, The Landscape in French Painting: XIX–XX Centuries, October–November 1931, no. 22, as La Route tournante.
1939d London
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 18, lent by Mrs. Watson-Hughes.
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. 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 (Cézanne et Pissarro 1865-1885).
Published References
Trublot 1887
Trublot, [P. Alexis]. "A Minuit: La Collection Murer." Le Cri du Peuple, October 21, 1887, no. 4, as Le Val-Fleury.
Bernheim-Jeune 1914
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. Cézanne. With contributions by O. Mirbeau, T. Duret, L. Werth, et al. Paris: Editions Hollande, 1914, pl. XXXVIII.
Bernheim-Jeune 1919
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 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 201, listed.
Arishima 1925
Arishima, Ikuma. Sezannu [Cézanne]. Tokyo: Ars, 1925, pl. 54.
Bernard 1925
Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, ill. opposite p. 133.
Bernard 1926a
Bernard, Émile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne, Une Conversation avec Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1926, ill. opp. p. 52.
D'Ors 1930
Ors, Eugenio d.' Paul Cézanne. Paris: Editions des Chroniques du Jour, 1930, p. 41, ill.
Furst 1931
Furst, Herbert. "Art News and Notes." Apollo 14 (October 1931), p. 244, ill.
Rivière 1933
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 47, ill.
Raynal 1936
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. XL p. 69.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 177, ill. vol. II, as La Route tournante.
Rivière 1942
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 47, ill.
Gachet 1956
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 1961
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 359, ill. (with the painting by Guillaumin).
Rewald 1975b
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 1986
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 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. 388, ill. vol. 2, as La Route tournante.
Dauberville 2020
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.
Cezanne 2021
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 22.
Chédeville and Hurtu 2021
Chédeville, François, and Raymond Hurtu. "Cezanne sur les bords de Marne." Société Cezanne, August 2021, fig. 22.
Notes

The specific locale of this landscape is unknown. The same motif was painted by Armand Guillaumin, also around 1877.

La Route tournante, c.1877 (FWN 110). Armand Guillaumin, Route Tournante. 1877. 46 x 55 cm. (Sotheby's June 23, 2011, Lot 155)
Armand Guillaumin, Route Tournante. 1877. 46 x 55 cm. (Sotheby's June 23, 2011, Lot 155)
Record last updated March 24, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Route tournante, c.1877 (FWN 110)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=384 (accessed on April 25, 2024).