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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)
Catalogue entry
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
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
André Derain, Paris;
Derain Collection, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, Mar. 22, 1955, no. 14, pl. II
Trianon Palace, Versailles, June 7, 1961, no. 76, ill.
Private collection
Musée d'Orsay, Paris (1981)
Musée du Louvre, galerie du Jeu de Paume, Paris (1982-84);
Musée d'Orsay, Paris (on deposit at the Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence 1984-2004 and from 2006 onwards)
Exhibition History
1982 Liège and traveling
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).1982 Aix-en-Provence
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne, June 12–August 31, 1982, no. 46, ill.1990 Aix-en-Provence
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne, June 16–September 2, 1990, no. 23, fig. 243.1990 Edinburgh
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 8, ill.1998 Mexico City
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. 1860-65.2002 Rome
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.2006 Washington, D.C. and traveling
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, 2006.2013–14 Rome
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne e gli artisti italiani del '900, October 5, 2013–February 2, 2014, no. 1, ill.2017–18 Aix-en-Provence
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne at home, October 20, 2017–April 1, 2018.Published References
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 195, as La Campagne romaine d'après une gravure.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 32, ill. vol. II, as Paysage.Ely 1984
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 et al. 1984a
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 1992
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 52, fig. 39, 1860–61.Lartigue 1995
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 15, ill.Coutagne et al. 1996
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 211.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. 24, ill. vol. 2, as La Tour de César.Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 30, fig. 12.Farber 2006
Farber, Jules B. Autour de Cézanne. Sommières: Romain Pages, 2006, ill. in color, p. 124.Ely 2006a
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 2008
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 2012
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 2013
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, pl. 56, p. 158.Clarke 2017
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 April 26, 2024).
