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 145
Neige fondante à Fontainebleau
1879–80
Alternate titles: Effet de Neige; Landscape; Melting Snow; Melting Snow at Fontainebleau; Melting Snow, Fontainebleau; Neige; Neige fondante (Fontainebleau); Schmelzender Schnee im Walde von Fontainebleau; Schneeschmelze
Rewald (413): 1879–80; Venturi revised: c.1882; Cézanne fils: 1879; Venturi (336): 1879–82; Rivière: before 1880; Ratcliffe: before May 1881
Oil on canvas
29 x 39 5/8 in. (73.6 x 100.6 cm)
Signed lower left in blue: Cezanne
Vollard archives: photo no. 355, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1879
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910, no. 34, as Neige fondante (Fontainebleau), lent by Cl. Monet.
Galerie Durand-Ruel, New York, Cézanne, Gauguin, Redon, March 22–April 15, 1932, no. 2.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, A Survey of French Painting, November 23, 1934–January 1, 1935, no. 3, ill.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 21, as Schmelzender Schnee im Walde von Fontainebleau, c. 1880, lent by M. Monet, Giverny.
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 124, lent by Michel Monet, Giverny.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Six Masters of Post-Impressionism, April 8–May 8, 1948, no. 2, as Melting Snow at Fontainebleau, lent by anonymous.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Collection of Mr. and Mrs. André Meyer, June 9–July 8, 1962, ill., p. 18.
Musée Saint-Georges, Liège, Belgium, Cézanne, March 12–May 9, 1982, no. 9, ill. 1879-80. 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. 9, ill.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, June–September 1983, no. 11, ill., as Neige fondante à Fontainebleau, lent by Museum of Modern Art.
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 13, ill. Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).
Musée Gustave Courbet, Ornans, France, Courbet/Cézanne: La vérité en peinture, June 29–October 14, 2013, no. 18, ill., as Neige fondante à Fontainebleau.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 9, ill.
Sammlung Oskar Reinhart "am Römerholz," Winterthur, Switzerland, Victor Chocquet: Freund und Sammler der Impressionisten, Renoir, Cézanne, Monet, Manet, February 20–June 7, 2015, no. 22, ill.
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, Monet Collectionneur, September 14, 2017–January 14, 2018, no. 59, ill.
Published References
Cézanne, Paul. "Letter to Victor Chocquet. Pontoise, May 16 (18)81." In Correspondance, ed. John Rewald. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1937, p. 137 (erroneously dated 1880), No. LXXX.
Hind, C. Lewis. The Post Impressionists. London: Methuen, 1911, ill. opposite p. 10, as Landscape.
Borgmeyer, Charles Louis. The Master Impressionists. Chicago: The Fine Arts Press, 1913, p. 59, ill., as Effet de Neige, Collection Monet.
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1913, pl. 90, as Schneeschmelze.
Stuart, Evelyn Marie. "Cézanne and His Place in Impressionism." Fine Arts Journal 35, no. 5 (May 1917), p. 326, ill., as Effet de Neige, "Collection Claude Monet".
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 207, listed.
Flint, Ralph. "Gauguin, Cézanne and Redon Show at Durand-Ruel's." Art News 30, no. 16 (March 26, 1932), p. 12, ill.
Nirdlinger, Virginia. "On View in the New York Galleries." Parnassus 4, no. 4 (April 1932), p. 10, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 336, ill. vol. II, as Neige fondante à Fontainebleau.
Cézanne, Paul. Correspondance. Edited by John Rewald. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1937, no. LXXX, p. 179 (erroneously dated 1880).
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 25, as Neige fondante à Fontainebleau, 1879-82.
Beucken, Jean de. Un portrait de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, [1955], pp. 220, 276, pl. IV between pp. 128, 129 (with photograph of motif which Cezanne used for this painting).
Beucken, Jean de. Cézanne. New York: Viking Press, 1962, p. 68, ill. (with photo of the motif), said to be taken on the Rouart property in Melun, according to Beucken.
Coke, Van Deren. The Painter and the Photograph. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1965, p. 11, ill.
Leonhard, Kurt. Paul Cézanne in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Rheinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1966, p. 109, ill.
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), pp. 59-60, 66-68, 78, fig. 19 p. 60.
Cabanne, Pierre. "Monsieur Chocquet, don Quichotte de l'impressionnisme." Jardin des arts, no. 190 (September 1970), p. 52, ill. (with reproduction of photograph).
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 59, ill.
Barr, Jr., Alfred H. Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art, 1929–1967. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977, p. 530, ill. p. 400.
Le Pichon, Yann. The Real World of the Impressionists: Painting and Photographs, 1848–1918. New York: C.N. Potter, 1984, p. 54, ill.
Rewald, John. "Chocquet and Cézanne." In Studies in Impressionism, Edited by Irene Gordon and Frances Weitzenhoffer. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1986, p. 149, fig. 81, as Melting Snow.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 122, ill. in color.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 37, fig. 13.
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. 413, ill. vol. 2 and p. 50, ill. col. vol. 1, as Neige fondante à Fontainebleau.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Zur Rezeptionsgeschichte Cézannes in Deutschland." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel,
Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 125, ill.
Shiff, Richard. "Risible Cézanne." In The Repeating Image: Multiples in French Painting from David to Matisse. Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, p. 144, fig. 15, as Melting Snow, Fontainebleau, dated 1879–80.
Mothe, Alain. Ce que voyait Cézanne: Les paysages impressionnistes à la lumière des cartes postales. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011, pp. 98–99, ill., as Neige fondante à Fontainebleau, with old photograph which Cézanne used as a model.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed., Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 108, ill., as Neige fondante à Fontainebleau, with photo, dated 1880, which he copied.
Cézanne, Paul. The Letters of Paul Cézanne. Edited and translated by Alex Danchev. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson; Getty Publications, 2013, p. 216, il.
Patin, Sylvie. Monet's Private Picture Gallery at Giverny. Montreuil: Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2016, p. 131, ill.
Lobstein, Dominique. "Paul Cézanne in the Monet Collection." In Monet Collectionneur [Monet, The Collector]. Vanves: Editions Hazan, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 176, ill. pp. 174–75.
Mathieu, Marianne, and Dominique Lobstein with the collaboration of Claire Gooden. "Vue synoptique de la collection Monet." In Monet Collectionneur [Monet, The Collector]. Vanves: Editions Hazan, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 268, listed and ill.
Patin, Sylvie. "Cézanne et Monet." In Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 60, fig. 5.
France-Lanord, Hadrien. La couleur et la parole: les chemins de Paul Cézanne et de Martin Heidegger. Paris: Gallimard, 2018, ill. p. 146, as Neige fondante à Fontainebleau.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 95, ill., as Neige, installation photograph from 1910 exhibition, p. 85.
Swinbourne, Anna. "L'Estaque; Fontainebleau; Bibémus; Château Noir." In Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press. Exhibition catalogue, p. 87, fig. 55, as Melting Snow, Fontainebleau, dated 1879–82.
Haskell, Caitlin. "Cezanne's Refusal." In Cezanne. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2022, p. 43, fig. 11 (with photograph of the motif, fig. 10).
Nagaï, Takanori. "L'idée de l'anti-modernisation social chez Cézanne." Bulletin of Kyoto Institute of Technology 14 (February 2022), fig. 43.
Record last updated June 1, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Neige fondante à Fontainebleau, 1879–80 (FWN 145)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=406 (accessed on December 13, 2024).
