The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
FWN 159
L'Hermitage à Pontoise
1881
Alternate titles: Die Eremitage in Pontoise; L'Ermitage à Pontoise; Paysage; Pontoise: l'Ermitage; The Hermitage at Pontoise
Rewald: (484) 1881; Venturi revised: 1880–81; Venturi: (176) 1875–77; Gowing: 1881; Ratcliffe: possibly 1881
Oil on canvas
18 5/16 x 22 in. (46.5 x 56 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Impressionnistes et romantiques français dans les musées allemands, 1951, no. 4, pl. 4, lent by Städtisches Museum, Wuppertal.
Orangerie, Paris, Van Gogh et les peintres d'Auvers-sur-Oise, November 26, 1954–February 28, 1955, no. 16, as L'Hermitage à Pontoise.
Städtische Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, Germany, Beginn und Reife, June 17–July 30, 1956, no. 65, ill., as L'Hermitage à Pontoise, 1875-77.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 19, ill. lent by Städtisches Museum, Wuppertal.
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, (Kunsthaus Lempertz), Cologne, Cézanne, Ausstellung zum Gedenken an sein 50. Todesjahr, December 1956–January 1957, no. 15, lent by Städtisches Museum, Wuppertal.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, De Renaissance der XXe Eeuw, July 4–September 24, 1958, no. 2.
Stadthalle, Wolfsburg, Germany, Französische Malerei von Delacroix bis Picasso, April 8–May 31, 1961, no. 17, as L'Hermitage à Pontoise, 1881, lent by Städtisches Museum, Wuppertal.
Nationalgalerie, Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, Die Ile de France und ihre Maler, September 29–November 24, 1963, no. 21.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 71, ill., as L'Hermitage à Pontoise, shown in Zürich only. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–1885, June 26–September 12, 2005, no. 95, ill., p. 199, as L'Hermitage à Pontoise. Traveled to: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, October 20, 2005–January 16, 2006; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, February 27–May 28, 2006.
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany, Der expressionistische Impuls: Meisterwerke aus Wuppertals großen Privatsammlungen, February 24–May 18, 2008, n.n., p. 169, ill., as Die Eremitage in Pontoise, c. 1881.
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne et Paris, October 12, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 34, ill., p. 75, as L'Hermitage à Pontoise, lent by von der Heydt Museum.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 106, ill.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 53, ill.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse, October 11, 2015–January 5, 2016, no. 21, ill., as The Hermitage at Pontoise, schown in Cleveland only. Traveled to: Royal Academy of Arts, London, January 30–April 20, 2016.
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 16, ill.
Published References
Kreitmaier, Josef. Von Kunst und Künstlern. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 1926, pl. 8.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 176, ill. vol. II, as Pontoise: l'Ermitage.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), pp. 54 and 56, as ...paysage exécuté à Potoise ...
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 120.
Reidemeister, Leopold. Auf den Spuren der Maler der Ile de France. Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 1963, p. 68, ill.
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 34, ill. in color.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 129.
Von der Heydt Museum. Der westdeutsche Impuls 1900–1914, Kunst und Umweltgestaltung im Industriegebiet, Stadtenwicklung, Sammlungen, Austellungen. Günter Aust, ed.. Wuppertal: Von der Heydt Museum, 1984. Exhibition catalogue, p. 100, listed.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 68, 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. 484, ill. vol. 2, as L'Hermitage à Pontoise.
Dittmann, Lorenz. Die Kunst Cézannes: Farbe, Rythmus, Symbolik. Cologne: Böhlau, 2005, p. 89, ill. in b/w.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 159; vol. 2, p. 116, as L'Hermitage à Pontoise.
Mothe, Alain. Ce que voyait Cézanne: Les paysages impressionnistes à la lumière des cartes postales. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011, pp. 62–63, ill., as L'Hermitage à Pontoise, with present-day photograph of motif.
Pissarro, Joachim. "Cézanne et Pissarro esthétiques de la résistance/Résistances à toute esthétique." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 75, ill., as L'Ermitage à Pontoise.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 75, ill., as Paysage.
Record last updated March 31, 2021. 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. "L'Hermitage à Pontoise, 1881 (FWN 159)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=473 (accessed on March 31, 2023).
