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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
© The Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania, USA/ The Bridgeman Art Library
FWN 140
La Conduite d'eau
c.1879
Alternate titles: Le Moulin; The Spring House
Rewald (406): c.1879; Venturi revised: 1880–81; Venturi (310): 1879–82
Oil on canvas
23 3/4 x 19 11/16 in. (60.4 x 50 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
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Leo Stein, Paris and Settignano (1903)
Dr. Albert C. Barnes, Merion (May 14, 1914);
Barnes Foundation, Merion and Philadelphia
Published References
Stein 1933
Stein, Gertrude. The Autobiography of Alice B. Tolkas. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1933, p. 38.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 310, ill. vol. II, as La Conduite d'eau.Barnes and de Mazia 1939
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 1947
Stein, Leo. Appreciation: Painting, Poetry and Prose. New York: Crown, 1947, pp. 122–23.Stein 1950
Stein, Leo. Journey into the Self. New York: Crown, 1950, p. 204.Sprigge 1957
Sprigge, Elizabeth. Gertrude Stein: Her Life and Work. New York: Harper, 1950, p. 52.Gordon 1970
Gordon, Irene. "A World Beyond the World: The Discovery 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 1977b
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 1989
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 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. 406, ill. vol. 2, as La Conduite d'eau.Parker 2011
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.Dombrowski, Ireson and Patry 2021
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, no. 23, pp. 146–57, as The Spring House (catalogue notes by N. Athanassoglou-Kallmyer).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 January 4, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Conduite d'eau, c.1879 (FWN 140)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=400 (accessed on April 23, 2024).
