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Catalogue entry

FWN 152
Maisons en Provence (La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque)
c.1883
Alternate titles: Gardane; Gardanne; House in Provence; Houses in Provence; Houses in Provence: The Riaux Valley near L'Estaque; Les Maisons sur la colline; Maison à l'Estaque; Maisons en Provence – le vallon de Riaux près de l'Estaque; Maisons en Provence—La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque; Paysage provençal; The Mas; The Mountain; Un Mas
Rewald (438): 1879–82; Venturi revised: 1883–85; Venturi (397): 1882–85; Cooper: between May 1883 and January 1884
Oil on canvas
25 9/16 x 32 in. (65 x 81.3 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 230
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon)

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris?
Egisto Fabbri, Florence
Paul Rosenberg, Paris and New York (Nov. 1928)
Mr. and Mrs. Marius de Zayas, Stamford;
Virginia Harrison, New York (Mrs. Marius de Zayas);
Parke-Bernet, New York, Oct. 14, 1965, no. 92, ill.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Va.;
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1973)
Exhibition History
1910a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910, no. 18, as Un Mas, lent by E. Fabbri.
1920 Venice
Biennale, Venice, Italy, Mostra Individuale di Paul Cézanne, April 15–October 31, 1920, no. 11, (dated 1880), as Gardanne, lent by Fabbri.
1920 Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Paintings and Drawings by Representative Modern Masters, April 17–May 9, 1920, no. 57, as The Mountain, lent by de Zayas [this must be incorrect; Fabbri owned through the biennale, which came later].
1921 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne, February 6–March 6, 1921, no. 13, as Les Maisons sur la colline, tentative identification.
1937a New York
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, French Painting, January 1937, no. 1.
1950c New York
Paul Rosenberg, New York, The 19th Century Heritage for the Benefit of Greenwich House, March 7–April 1, 1950, no. 2, ill.
1952 Chicago and traveling
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 55, ill. lent by de Zayas. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
1966 Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, March 18–May 1, 1966, no. 69, ill.
1986 Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Gifts to the Nation: Selected Acquisitions from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, July 20–October 17, 1986.
1990 Edinburgh
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 33, ill.
1995–96 Paris and traveling
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 71, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
1998 St. Petersburg and traveling
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 14, ill., (dated c. 1880). Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).
1999–2000 London
The Courtauld Gallery, London, Art Made Modern: Roger Fry's Vision of Art, October 15, 1999–January 23, 2000, no. 27, fig. 88 p. 146, as Houses in Provence, 1882-85.
2004–05 Essen
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Cézanne: Aufbruch in die Moderne, September 18, 2004–January 16, 2005, listed p. 231, ill. pp. 133 and 207, as Maisons en Provence (La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque), c. 1880.
2006 Washington, D.C. and traveling
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 47, fig. 12, p. 53 (dated c. 1883). Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
2009 Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, pl. 125, p. 372, as Maisons en Provence (La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque).
2013 Ornans
Musée Gustave Courbet, Ornans, France, Courbet/Cézanne: La vérité en peinture, June 29–October 14, 2013, no. 42, ill., as Maisons en Provence—La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque.
Published References
Denis 1909–10
Denis, Maurice. "Cézanne." Kunstbladet (1909–10), p. 251, ill.
Faure 1911
Faure, Élie. "Paul Cézanne." L'Art décoratif 13, no. 157 (October 5, 1911), p. 128, ill.
Nebbia 1913
Nebbia, Ugo. "Sul movimento pittorico contemporaneo." Emporium 38 (December 1913), p. 421, ill.
Henraux 1920
Henraux, Lucien. "I Cézanne della raccolta Fabbri." Dedalo vol. 1, no. 1 (1920), ill. p. 55, as Gardane, 1880.
Henraux 1924
L.[ucien] H.[enraux]. "Une grande collection de Cézanne en Italie: la collection Egisto Fabbri." L'Amour de l'art 5, no. 11 (November 1924), ill. p. 341, as Gardanne, 1880.
Rutter 1926
Rutter, Frank. Evolution in Modern Art. London: George G Harrap & Company Limited, 1926, pl. 8.
Fry 1927a
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, pp. 58–59, fig. 22, pl. XV.
Venturi 1935b
Venturi, Lionello. "Paul Cézanne." L'Arte 6, nos. 4 and 5 (July 1935), p. 389, fig. 14.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 397, ill. vol. II, as Maison à l'Estaque (discussed vol. I, pp. 52–53).
Novotny 1937
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 35.
Schildt 1946
Schildt, Göran. Cézanne. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1946, fig. 15.
Novotny 1947
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 32, as Paysage provençal, 1882-83.
Bazin 1947b
Bazin, Germain. "Métiers impressionnistes." L'Amour de l'art 27, nos. III & IV (1947), ill. p. 200 (detail).
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 72, listed p. 156.
Clark 1949
Clark, Kenneth. "Landscape into Art: Epilogue." Art News 48, no. 7 (November 1949), p. 65, ill.
Clark 1950
Clark, Kenneth. Landscape Painting. New York: Scribner, 1950, p. 125, pl. 91.
Venturi 1950a
Venturi, Lionello. Impressionists and Symbolists: Manet, Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Scribner, 1950, fig. 127.
Fry 1952
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 58, pl. XV fig. 22, as The Mas.
Badt 1956
Badt, Kurt. Die Kunst Cézannes. Munich: Prestel, 1956, p. 62, pl. 6.
Venturi 1956b
Venturi, Lionello. Four Steps toward Modern Art: Giorgione, Caravaggio, Manet, Cézanne. New York: Columbia University Press, 1956, pl. 28.
Badt 1965
Badt, Kurt. The Art of Cézanne. Translated by Sheila Ann Ogilvie. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1965, p. 81, pl. 6.
Goldwater 1966
Goldwater, Robert J. "The Glory That Was France." Art News 65, no. 1 (March 1966), p. 85, ill.
Rosenberg 1967
Rosenberg, Jakob. On Quality in Art. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967, pl. 83, pp. 107–08.
Murphy 1968
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 184.
National Gallery of Art 1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1975, no. 2655, p. 65, ill., as Houses in Provence.
Venturi 1978
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 85, ill.
Kelder 1980
Kelder, Diane. The Great Book of French Impressionism. New York: Abbeville Press, 1980, pp. 385–86, ill. p. 398.
Lloyd 1981
Lloyd, Christopher. Camille Pissarro. Geneva: Skira, 1981, p. 69, ill.
Arrouye 1982a
Arrouye, Jean. La Provence de Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Edisud, 1982, p. 84, ill.
Shiff 1984
Shiff, Richard. Cézanne and the end of Impressionism: a study of the theory, technique, and a critical evaluation of modern art. Chicago; London: The Univesity of Chicago Press, 1984, p. 209-210, fig. 50, as House in Provence, c. 1880.
House 1985
House, John. Impressionist Masterpieces: National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York: Hugh Lauther Levin, 1985, p. 54, pl. 16.
Bessonova and Williams 1986
Bessonova, Marina, and William Williams. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Hermitage, Leningrad, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York: Park Lane, 1986, p. 158, ill.
Rewald 1986a
Rewald, John. "Paintings by Paul Cézanne in the Mellon Collection." In Essays in Honor of Paul Mellon, Collector and Benefactor, edited by John Wilmerding. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1986, pp. 306–10, fig. 11.
Rewald 1986b
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 153, ill.
Kendall 1988
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 137, ill.
Lévêque 1988
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 176, ill. in color.
Rewald 1989
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 25, 337, fig. 161.
Gowing and Rewald 1990
Gowing, Lawrence, and John Rewald. "'Les maisons provençales': Cézanne and Puget." The Burlington Magazine 132, no. 1050 (September 1990), fig. 16 and cover (with photograph of the motif, identified by X. Prati).
Naubert-Riser 1992
Naubert-Riser, Constance. Cézanne. London: Studio Editions, 1994, p. 77.
Bonafoux 1995
Bonafoux, Pascal. Cézanne: portrait. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 97, ill.
Coutagne 1995b
Coutagne, Denis. "Les paysages." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 17, c. 1880.
Coutagne et al. 1996
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 113.
Machotka 1996
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 51, fig. 26, with photograph of motif, fig. 25, as Maisons en Provence – le vallon de Riaux près de l'Estaque, dated 1882–83.
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. 438, ill. vol. 2, as Maisons en Provence—La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque.
Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 218, fig. 131.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer 2003
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 137, fig. 3.40, as Maisons en Provence (La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque).
Schmidt 2004a
Schmidt, Bertram. Cézannes Lehre. Kiel: Ludwig, 2004, fig. 11.
Cendo 2005
Cendo, Nicolas. "A Dimension Known as Painting, L'Estaque, 1870–1910." In Right Under the Sun: Landscape in Provence from Classicism to Modernism (1750–1920). Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 185, fig. 2, as Maisons en Provence (La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque).
Société Paul Cézanne 2005
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 25, ill., with contemporary photo of motif, p. 24, as Maisons en Provence—La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque.
Leca 2006
Leca, Benedict. "Sites of Forgetting: Cézanne and the Provençal Landscape Tradition." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 53, fig. 12, as Maisons en Provence (La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque).
Bardazzi 2007b
Bardazzi, Francesca, ed. Cézanne in Florence: Two Collectors and the 1910 Exhibition of Impressionism. Translated by John Venerella. Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, p. 262, fig. 23, as Maisons en Provence (La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque).
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 172; vol. 2, p. 121, as Maisons en Provence (La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque).
Hirsh 2009
Hirsh, Jennie. "For the Love, and Fear, of Painting: Cézanne, Morandi, and Italian Modernism." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 372, pl. 125, as Houses in Provence: The Riaux Valley near L'Estaque, dated c. 1883.
Nelson 2010
Nelson, B.R. "The portrayal of reflective life in action in painting: discovery of the inner life of sensory perception in watercolours by Turner and oil paintings by Cézanne." In Forms of Enlightenment in Art. Cambridge, England: Open Angle Books, 2010, pp. 171-174, as Houses in Provence: The Riaux Valley near L'Estaque.
Mothe 2011
Mothe, Alain. Ce que voyait Cézanne: Les paysages impressionnistes à la lumière des cartes postales. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011, pp. 122–23, as Maisons en Provence (La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque), with old postcard view of site: "Le Littoral. L'Estaque-Riaux. Berceau de Pierre Puget".
Blanc 2013
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Estaque, Art et Patrimoine, Chronique d'une double histoire. Gémenos: Groupe Horizon, 2013, p. 58, ill.
Colrat 2013
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 211, pl. 99.
Benedetti 2013b
Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Gli artisti italiani e Cézanne." In Cézanne et gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 53, fig. 58.
Machotka 2014
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 101, fig. 31b, with color photo of motif, p. 99, fig. 31a, as Maisons en Provence (La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque).
Callen 2015
Callen, Anthea. The Work of Art: Plein-air Painting and Artistic Identiy in the Nineteenth-century France. London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2015, pp. 168, 189, 191-2, 201, 206, fig. 120 p. 158, as Houses in Provence, c. 1883.
Marchesseau 2017
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 130, ill.
Blanc 2019
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Oeuvre de Cezanne à L'Estaque, Huiles – Aquarelles – Dessins, 1864–1885. Marseille: Éditions Gaussen, 2019, fig. 83 (discussion pp. 74–75), as Maisons en Provence—La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque, with contemporary photos of the motif (figs. 84, 85).
Blanc 2020
Blanc, Geneviève. Et si L'Estaque m'était contée? [privately published], 2020, p. 70, ill. with photo of motif.
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, p. 157, fig. 3, as Houses in Provence: The Riaux Valley near L'Estaque.
Nagaï 2022a
Nagaï, Takanori. Truth in Panting: The Meaning of Cezanne's Practices for Modernizing Society. Tokyo: Sangesha Publishers Inc., 2022, pl. 4.
Maisons en Provence (La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque), c.1883 (FWN 152). Vallon de Riaux, L'Estaque. John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washignton, D.C.
Vallon de Riaux, L'Estaque. John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washignton, D.C.
Maisons en Provence (La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque), c.1883 (FWN 152)
Photo: Courtesy Alain Mothe
Maisons en Provence (La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque), c.1883 (FWN 152). View of Puget's birthplace by J-B Olive, from La Provence artistique et pittoresque, February 18, 1883, p.53
View of Puget's birthplace by J-B Olive, from La Provence artistique et pittoresque, February 18, 1883, p.53
Maisons en Provence (La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque), c.1883 (FWN 152). Site identified by Xavier Prati.
Site identified by Xavier Prati.
Photo: Pavel Machotka, 2004; © Courtesy Pavel Machotka Archive
Record last updated April 28, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Maisons en Provence (La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque), c.1883 (FWN 152)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=429 (accessed on April 18, 2024).