The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
Catalogue entry
FWN 142
Les Peupliers
1879–80
Alternate titles: Peupliers; Poplars
Rewald: (407) 1879–80; Venturi revised: c.1882; Venturi: (335) 1879–82; Gowing: 1879; Ratcliffe: c.1880 (same as no. 143)
Oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 31 1/2 in. (65 x 80 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3316, Paysage tout vert; rideau d'arbres tenant les 3/4 du tableau. au premier plan une maçonnerie, de l'autre côté un petit chemin qui tourne, 65 x 81 cm (200 frs)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 15–December 1899 (exhibition catalogue), no. 13, as Peupliers.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 26, (dated c. 1880), as Les Peupliers, lent by Louvre.
Musée d'Albi, Albi, France, Salon Annuel, 1941, no. 596, erroneously listed as previously owned by Caillebotte.
Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland, L'Ecole de Paris, February 27–March 31, 1946, no. 1, lent by Louvre.
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954 (exhibition catalogue; introduction by Germain Bazin and catalogue notes by Albert Châtelet), no. 42, lent by Musée du Louvre.
Musées nationaux, Brive-la-Gaillarde, France, Impressionnistes et précurseurs, 1955 (exhibition catalogue), no. 31, ill., as Les Peupliers, c. 1880, lent by Musée du Louvre, Paris. Traveled to: La Rochelle, 1955. Rennes, 1955. Angoulême, 1955.
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956 (exhibition catalogue; text by Fritz Novotny). This exhibition commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the artist's death. Watercolors and drawings were also shown, no. 21, ill., lent by Louvre.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition Cézanne: Tableaux, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 1–August 15, 1961, no. 5, pl. 3.
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961 (exhibition catalogue; preface by Fritz Novotny), no. 13, pl. 9.
Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne dans les musées nationaux, July 19–October 14, 1974 (exhibition catalogue; catalogue by Michel Hoog in collaboration with Simone Rufenacht and Geneviève Monnier), no. 26, with comments and references.
Nationalgalerie - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Von Courbet bis Cézanne: Französische Malerei 1848-1886, December 10, 1982–February 20, 1983 (exhibition catalogue; catalogue entries by Anne Distel), no. 17, ill., as Les Peupliers, c. 1880.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, June 28–September 16, 1984, no. 71, ill. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, October 23, 1984–January 6, 1985. Grand Palais, Paris, February 8–April 22, 1985.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996. Organised by Réunion des musées nationaux / musée d'Orsay, Tate Gallery and Philadelphia Museum of Art. Initially scheduled to end on January 7 the Paris exhibition was prolonged until January 14. (exhibition catalogue; text by Françoise Cachin and Joseph Rishel with contributions by Isabelle Cahn, Walter Feilchenfeldt and Henri Loyrette; English edition: Cézanne, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1996), no. 58. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000. English edition: Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished (exhibition catalogue), no. 77, ill., as Les Peupliers, shown in Zürich only. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, Switzerland, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, September 14, 2006–January 7, 2007. Curated by Rebecca A. Rabinow, Douglas W. Druick, Ann Dumas, Gloria Groom, Anne Roquebert and Gary Tinterow. Catalogue notes on Cézanne paintings by Jayne Warman (exhibition catalogue). Also printed in French, no. 31, fig. 35, pp. 34, 337–38, as Les Peupliers. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, February 17–May 13, 2007. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, June 19–September 16, 2007.
Musée Gustave Courbet, Ornans, France, Courbet/Cézanne: La vérité en peinture, June 29–October 14, 2013. Curated by Denis Coutagne. Catalogue notes by Denis Coutagne and Xavier Rey, no. 50, ill., (dated c. 1879–82).
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018 (exhibition catalogue edited by Alexander Eiling), no. 17, ill.
Published References
Novotny, Fritz. "Paul Cézanne." Belvedere 8, no. 12 (1929), ill. opp. p. 444.
Faure, Élie. Cézanne. Paris: Editions Braun, 1936, pl. 39.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 335, ill. vol. II as Les Peupliers.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 28.
Besson, George. Cézanne, 10 Planches en couleurs. Paris: Les Éditions Braune & Cie, 1938(?).
Barnes, Albert C, and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 73, listed.
Francastel, Pierre. Nouveau Dessin, Nouvelle Peinture: L'école de Paris. Paris: Librairie de Médicis, 1946, pl. XIII.
Schildt, Göran. Cézanne. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1946, fig. 27.
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Tisne, 1948, pl. 57.
Jourdain, Francis. L'Impressionnisme: origines, conséquences. Paris: Collection Le Maîtres, 1951, fig. 35.
Adhémar, Hélène. Catalogue des peintures, pastels, sculptures impressionnistes du Musée du Louvre. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1958, pp. 21–22, no. 41.
Bazin, Germain. Trésors de l'impressionnisme au Louvre. Paris: A. Somogy, 1958, p. 275, ill.
Sterling, Charles, and Hélène Adhémar. La Peinture au Musée du Louvre, vol. I. Paris: Éditions des Musées Nationaux, 1958, fig. 258.
Ikegami, Chuji. Cézanne. Tokyo: Shueisha, 1969, fig. 17.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 58, ill.
Brion, Marcel. Cézanne. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974, p. 20.
Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 47.
Perucchi-Petri, Ursula. "War Cézanne Impressionist? Die Begegnung zwischen Cézanne und Pissarro." Du 35, no. 9 (September 1975), p. 62, ill.
Ponente, Nello, ed. Cézanne e le avanguardie. Rome: Officina Edizioni, 1981, Via: pl. 2.
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 45, ill. in color.
Muller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 13.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 21, ill.
De Lartigue, Charles. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 69, ill.
Sollers, Philippe. Le Paradis de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, 1995, p. 31, ill.
Cahn, Isabelle. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 1995, p. 66, ill.
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. 407, ill. vol. 2 as Les Peupliers.
Jensen, Robert. "Vollard and Cézanne: An Anatomy of a Relationship." In Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 34, fig. 35 as Poplars.
Chiappini, Rudy. "Quel silenzio, in attesa del tempo della rivelazione." In Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi. Milan: Skira, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 34, fig. 17.
According to Brettell, this work was "probably painted just outside the park of the Château des Marcouvilles in the hamlet of Les Patis." (A Day in the Country, exh. cat., 1984). The work could also have been painted in the area of Melun.
Record last updated June 7, 2018. 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. "Les Peupliers, 1879–80 (FWN 142)." The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. http://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=401 (accessed on February 23, 2019).