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Catalogue entry

FWN 123
Au fond du ravin, l'Estaque
1878–79
Alternate titles: At the Bottom of the Ravine; Au fond du ravin; Au fond du ravin (l'Estaque) or Paysage rocheux; L'Estaque; Landschaft; Paysage; Paysage rocheux
Rewald (393): 1878–79; Venturi revised: 1883–85; Cézanne fils: Gardanne, 1885; Venturi (400): 1882–85; Rivière: c.1880–85; Cooper: 1880
Oil on canvas
28 11/16 x 21 1/4 in. (73 x 54 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 178, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Gardanne, 1885 ; in another hand: Mirbeau
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (John A. and Audrey Jones Beck Collection, gift of Audrey Jones Beck) (98.274)

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Provenance
Victor Chocquet, Paris;
Mme veuve Chocquet (née Marie Buisson) (1891);
Chocquet Collection, Galerie G. Petit, Paris, France, July 1–4, 1899, no. 4
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris
Octave Mirbeau, Paris (May 31, 1901);
Mirbeau Collection, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, Feb. 24, 1919, no. 9, ill.; bought in (?);
Madame Mirbeau, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (1919);
Bernheim-Jeune, Lausanne (December 31, 1919)
Josef Müller, Solothurn;
Private collection, Switzerland
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1998)
Exhibition History
1910a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910, no. 33, as L'Estaque, lent by O. Mirbeau.
1914a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 6–17, 1914, no. 12, as Paysage rocheux.
1936 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 36, as Landschaft, 1885, lent by Private collection.
1950 Solothurn
Kunstverein, Solothurn, Switzerland, Hundert Jahre Malerei aus Solothurne Privatbesitz, September 23–November 26, 1950, no. 56, as Au fond du ravin.
1999 Munich
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Kunst über Grenzen. Die Klassische Moderne von Cézanne bis Tinguely und die Weltkunst - aus der Schweiz gesehen, March 7–May 30, 1999, no. 9, ill.
Published References
Meier-Graefe 1913
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1913, ill. p. 63.
Bernheim-Jeune 1914
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. Cézanne. With contributions by O. Mirbeau, T. Duret, L. Werth, et al. Paris: Editions Hollande, 1914, pl. XLVI.
Pach 1914
Pach, Walter. "The Point of View of the 'Moderns.'" Century Magazine 87, no. 6 (April 1914), p. 867, ill.
Meier-Graefe 1918a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 115.
Adès 1919
Adès, Albert. "Mirbeau, critique d'art et collectionneur." La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe (Paris), vol. 2, no. 2 (February 1919), p. 54, as Paysage rocheux.
Vauvrecy and Cezanne 1920
Vauvrecy; Paul Cézanne. "Vie de Cézanne'';''Lettres de Cézanne." L'Esprit nouveau: revue internationale d'esthétique, no. 2 (1920), ill. p. 142.
Meier-Graefe 1922
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 146.
Meier-Graefe 1923
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper, 1923, ill. p. 63.
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 209, listed.
Faure 1923a
Faure, Élie. P. Cézanne. Paris, 1923, pl. 49, as Paysage.
Meier-Graefe 1927a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XXVII.
Raynal 1936
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. LIV p. 83.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 400, ill. vol. II, as Au fond du ravin.
Ramuz 1951
Ramuz, Charles Ferdinand. L'exemple de Cézanne suivi de Pages sur Cézanne: dessins et peintures. Lausanne: Mermod, 1951, ill. p. 45, as Au fond du ravin.
Rewald 1961
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 465, ill.
Rewald 1969
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), p. 59; p. 82, no. 4, p. 91.
Malevich 1971
Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich. Essays on Art, 1915–33. New York: G. Wittenborn, 1971, pp. 19–30, fig. 5.
Elgar 1975
Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 114.
Hattis 1978
Hattis, Phyllis. "Zu den Bildern in der 'Schanzmühle.'" Du 38, no. 8 (August 1978), p. 49, ill.
White 1984
White, Barbara Ehrlich. Renoir: His Life, Art and Letters. New York: Abrams, 1984, p. 123, ill.
Cachin and Rishel 1995
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 186, fig. 2.
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. 393, ill. vol. 2, as Au fond du ravin, l'Estaque.
Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 128, fig. 77.
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 171; vol. 2, p. 120, as Au fond du ravin.
Blanc 2019
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Oeuvre de Cezanne à L'Estaque, Huiles – Aquarelles – Dessins, 1864–1885. Marseille: Éditions Gaussen, 2019, fig. 70 (discussion p. 65), as Au fond du ravin, l'Estaque.
Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 125, ill., as Au fond du ravin (l'Estaque) or Paysage rocheux, installation photograph from 1910 exhibition, p. 83, and 1914 exhibition, p.98.
Elderfield et al 2020
Elderfield John, et al. Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Exhibition catalogue, no. 2, ill. (catalogued but not shown), as At the Bottom of the Ravine, dated c. 1882, catalogue note4s by Annemarie Iker.
Cezanne 2021
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 54.
Lebensztejn 2021
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. "Cezanne and the Russian Avant-Garde (as Seen from Paris)." In Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 7.
Notes

Rewald (1996, p. 262) noted that the motif and coloration of this canvas was similar to Renoir's Crags at L'Estaque (1882), although one might also find a parallel with Le Viaduc à l'Estaque, 1882 (156), which was painted in the same year.

Au fond du ravin, l'Estaque, 1878–79 (FWN 123). Auguste Renoir, Crags at L'Estaque, 1882. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Auguste Renoir, Crags at L'Estaque, 1882. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Record last updated September 4, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Au fond du ravin, l'Estaque, 1878–79 (FWN 123)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=389 (accessed on April 19, 2024).