The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
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© The Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania, USA/ The Bridgeman Art Library
FWN 140
La Conduite d'eau
c.1879
Alternate title: The Spring House
Rewald: (406) c.1879; Venturi revised: 1880–81; Venturi: (310) 1879–82
Oil on canvas
23 x 19 5/16 in. (58.4 x 49 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3668, huile; paysage vert, au 1er plan énorme maison rouge, 61 x 50 cm (100 frs)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4320, paysage avec au premier plan grosse maison rouge, 60 x 50 cm (150 frs)
Provenance
Published References
Stein, Gertrude. The Autobiography of Alice B. Tolkas. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1933, p. 38.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 310, ill. vol. II as La Conduite d'eau.
Barnes, Albert C, and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 89, p. 218, ill. (analysis p. 342).
Stein, Leo. Appreciation: Painting, Poetry and Prose. New York: Crown, 1947, pp. 122–23.
Stein, Leo. Journey into the Self. New York: Crown, 1950, p. 204.
Sprigge, Elizabeth. Gertrude Stein: Her Life and Work. New York: Harper, 1950, p. 52.
Gordon, Irene. "A World Beyond the World: The Discover of Leo Stein." In Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1970. Exhibition catalogue, p. 24.
De Mazia, Violette. "E Pluribus Unum, Cont'd: Part IV." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 8, no. 2 (Autumn 1977), pl. 133 (installation).
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 53, 256, figs. 33 and 123.
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. 406, ill. vol. 2 as La Conduite d'eau.
Parker, Robert McD. "Catalogue of the Stein Collections." In The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avent-Garde, edited by Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 396, no. 8, pl. 35 as The Spring House.
Notes
The spring house in the foreground here is the same as the one represented in Paysage avec conduite d’eau, c.1879 (139), although from a different angle.
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Record last updated February 14, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. "La Conduite d'eau, c.1879 (FWN 140)." The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=400 (accessed on January 25, 2021).
