The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
(Formerly directed by Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash)
FWN 121
L'Estaque vu à travers les arbres
1878–79
Alternate titles: L'Estaque; L'Estaque à travers les arbres; La Mer et l'Estaque; Landschaft
Rewald (396): 1878–79; Venturi revised: 1883–85; Cézanne fils: L'Estaque, 1883; Venturi (427): 1883–86; Rivière: 1880 and 1883(?); Cooper: between May 1883 and January 1884
Oil on canvas
18 1/8 x 21 5/8 in. (46 x 55 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Städtische Ausstellungshalle, Cologne, Internationale Kunstausstellung des Sonderbundes Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, May 25–September 30, 1912, no. 147, as Landschaft, lent by Frau Elsa Tischner-von Durant, Freising.
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina Republic, La Pintura francesca: de David a nuestros días, July 18–August 1939, no. 9, as L'Estaque, lent by Mme F[ürstenberg]. Traveled to: Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes Juan B. Castagnino, Rosario, Argentina Republic, August 31–September 10, 1939; Salón Nacional de Bellas Artes, Montevideo, Uruguay, April 1940; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, June–July 1940.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Impressionist Treasures from Private Collections in New York, January 12–29, 1966, no. 2, ill.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Summer Loan Exhibition, July–September 1966, no. 21, lent by Dr. and Mrs Rudolph Heinemann.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Summer Loan Exhibition: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture from Private Collections, July–September 1967, no. 14, lent by Dr. and Mrs. Rudolph Heinemann.
Published References
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 208, listed.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. CIII.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 427, ill. vol. II, as La Mer et l'Estaque.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 222, fig. 1.
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. 396, ill. vol. 2, as L'Estaque vu à travers les arbres.
Schaefer, Barbara, ed. "Sonderbundausstellung 1912 - Rekonstruktion." 1912, Mission Moderne: die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes. Cologne: Wienend, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, no. 147, p. 556.
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Estaque, Art et Patrimoine, Chronique d'une double histoire. Gémenos: Groupe Horizon, 2013, p. 19, ill.
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Oeuvre de Cezanne à L'Estaque, Huiles – Aquarelles – Dessins, 1864–1885. Marseille: Éditions Gaussen, 2019, fig. 69 (discussion p. 63), as L'Estaque à travers les arbres, with a contemporary photo of the view, p. 59, fig.65.
Blanc, Geneviève. Et si L'Estaque m'était contée? [privately published], 2020, p. 16, ill.
Record last updated March 14, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Estaque vu à travers les arbres, 1878–79 (FWN 121)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=391 (accessed on July 18, 2025).
