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 3-TA
La Tour de César
c.1862
Alternate titles: A la tour de César; La Campagne romaine d'après une gravure; Landscape with the Tower of Caesar; Paysage
Rewald (24): c.1862; Venturi revised: c.1870; Venturi (32): 1860–65; Rivière: 1859
Oil on paper laid down on canvas
7 1/2 x 11 13/16 in. (19 x 30 cm)
Provenance
Private collection
Exhibition History
Musée Saint-Georges, Liège, Belgium, Cézanne, March 12–May 9, 1982, no. 46, ill., as A la tour de César, c. 1860-65. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 12–August 31, 1982 (exhibition catalogue; preface by Denis Coutagne).
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne, June 12–August 31, 1982, no. 46, ill.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne, June 16–September 2, 1990, no. 23, fig. 243.
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 8, ill.
Museo del palacio de bellas artes, Mexico City, La Provenza de los pintores : ruptura y tradición, February 20–May 3, 1998, no. 65, ill., as La Tour de César, c. 1860-65.
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni, March 7–July 7, 2002, listed p. 98, ill. lent by Musée d'Orsay on behalf of Musée Granet.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 12, ill., fig. 6, p. 37 (dated c. 1860–65), shown in Aix only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne e gli artisti italiani del '900, October 5, 2013–February 2, 2014, no. 1, ill.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne at home, October 20, 2017–April 1, 2018.
Published References
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 195, as La Campagne romaine d'après une gravure.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 32, ill. vol. II, as Paysage.
Ely, Bruno. "Cézanne, L'Ecole de dessin et le Musée d'Aix." In Cézanne au Musée d'Aix. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1984. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 145, compared with a painting by Granet.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. "Catalogue des oeuvres de Cézanne conservées au musée Granet d'Aix-en-Provence." In Cézanne au Musée d'Aix. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1984, pp. 210-211, no. 2, ill. and col. pl. p. 49.
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 52, fig. 39, 1860–61.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 15, ill.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 211.
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. 24, ill. vol. 2, as La Tour de César.
Farber, Jules B. Autour de Cézanne. Sommières: Romain Pages, 2006, ill. in color, p. 124.
Ely, Bruno. "Cézanne's Youth." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 36, fig. 6, as La Tour de César.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 33; vol. 2, p. 46, as La Tour de César.
Ely, Bruno. "Cézanne and the Musée d'Aix." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 123, fig. 72, p. 116 (detail), as Landscape with the Tower of Caesar.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, pl. 56, p. 158.
Clarke, Michael. "Finding Cézanne, His Place in the French Landscape Tradition." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 12.
Notes
Influence of F-M Granet. The Tour de César is a watchtower on the hill of La Queirié near Les Trois Bon Dieux near Aix-en-Provence. The tower is also seen in a later painting by Cezanne, Paysage près d'Aix, c.1894 (301).
Record last updated October 15, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Tour de César, c.1862 (FWN 3-TA), laid down on canvas." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=40 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
