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 144
Melun vu depuis Le Mée-sur-Seine
1879–80
Alternate titles: Ansicht von Pontoise; Blick auf die Stadt; Blick auf eine Stadt; Cergy, vue de Ham; Chaumières à Auvers; Environs de Pontoise; Paysage d'Ile-de-France; Petite Ville de l'île de France; Stadtansicht; Un village; Vue de village, probablement Cergy près de Pontoise, vue de Ham; Vue présumé de Melun
Rewald (414): 1879–80; Venturi revised: 1880–81; Venturi (307): 1879–82; Ratcliffe: 1881 or 1882; Machotka et al: 1879–80
Oil on canvas
23 1/2 x 28 11/16 in. (59.7 x 73 cm)
Provenance
Private collection, Monaco;
Exhibition History
Städtische Ausstellungshalle, Cologne, Internationale Kunstausstellung des Sonderbundes Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, May 25–September 30, 1912, no. 127, as Ansicht von Pontoise, lent by Bonger.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XV. Jahrgang, 1912-1913, Erste Ausstellung, October 24–December 2, 1912, no. 26, as Blick auf die Stadt, tentative identification.
Moderne Galerie [Heinrich Thannhauser], Munich, [unknown title], December 1912, no. 2, as Stadtansicht, lent by A. Bonger.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Degas / Cézanne [XVI. Jahrgang, 1913-14, Zweite Ausstellung], November 1–December 7, 1913, no. 32, as Blick auf eine Stadt, lent by Bonger.
Paul Rosenberg, Paris, Exposition d’oeuvres importantes de grands maîtres du dix-neuvième siècle prétées au profit de la Cité Universitaire de l’Université de Paris, May 18–June 27, 1931, no. 4, ill., as Environs de Pontoise, 1882, lent by Monsieur G. R...
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 48, (dated 1879–80), as Paysage d'Ile-de-France, lent by Georges Renand, Paris.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Honderd jaar Fransche kunst, July 2–September 25, 1938, no. 19, ill., as Vue de village, probablement Cergy près de Pontoise, vue de Ham, lent by G. Renand.
Paul Rosenberg, Paris, Exposition Cézanne (1839-1906), organisée à l'occasion de son centenaire au profit de l’œuvre de l'allaitement maternel, February 21–April 1, 1939, no. 6, ill., as Un village, 1882, lent by Georges Renand.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, August 1951.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 31, lent by Goetz. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. William Goetz, April 18–May 31, 1959, no. 11, ill.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 16, ill. lent by Goetz.
Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Hollywood Collects, April 5–May 15, 1970, ill.
Published References
Bouyer, Raymond. "Les expositions." Le Bulletin de l'art ancien et moderne: supplément hebdomadaire de la Revue de l'art ancien et moderne (Paris) (February 1932), ill. p. 59, as Environs de Pontoise, 1882.
Besson, George (introduction). "Paul Cézanne: 1839–1906." Estampes. Paris: Braun & Cie, August 1936 (no. 4), fig. 12 p. 6.
Laprade, Jacques de. "L'exposition Cézanne à l'Orangerie." Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 177 (May 22, 1936), ill. p. 9, as Vue présumé de Melun.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 307, ill. vol. II, as Un village.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 77, p. 196, ill.
Jaloux, Edmond. "Cézanne." Marianne: grand hebdomadaire politique et littéraire illustré (Paris) (February 22, 1939), ill. p. 12, as Un village.
Auzas, Pierre. Peintures de Cézanne. Paris: Editions du Chêne, 1946, pl. IX (in color), as Cergy, vue de Ham, dated 1879–82.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 26, as Paysage d'Ile-de-France, 1879-80.
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. 414, ill. vol. 2, as Petite Ville de l'île de France.
Leeman, Fred. Odilon Redon and Emile Bernard: Masterpieces from the Andries Bonger Collection. Amsterdam and Zwolle: Van Gogh Museum and Waanders, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, no. 75 of checklist, p. 117, shown in 1904 installation photograph, fig. 96.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed., Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 85, fn. 27, site identified as Melun seen from the quartier des Mées.
Schaefer, Barbara, ed. "Sonderbundausstellung 1912 - Rekonstruktion." 1912, Mission Moderne: die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes. Cologne: Wienend, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, no. 127, p. 554.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Kollektionen Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Werke von […]: 1. November bis 7. Dezember 1913." In Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1912-1914 vol. 6, "Eine neue Klassik". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2016, p. 504, ill.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. "Cézanne nostalgique: Nostalgia, Memory, Illusion." Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, 22, no. 2 (Autumn 2023), fig. 11.
Rikhof, Maalke. "Symbolist, Post-Impressionist, Cubist, Traditonalist, The Reception of Paul Cézanne in the Netherlands, 1890–1930." In Van Gogh, Cézanne, Le Fauconnier and the Bergen School. Zwolle: Stedelijk Museum and Waanders, 2023. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 39.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Melun vu depuis Le Mée-sur-Seine, 1879–80 (FWN 144)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=407 (accessed on February 8, 2025).