Catalogue entry

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)

Keywords

Provenance
Camille Pissarro, Paris
Auguste Pellerin, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (February 16, 1911)
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (February 18, 1911)
Julius Schmits, Elberfeld (Mar. 1, 1912);
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal
Exhibition History
1951 Paris
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Impressionnistes et romantiques français dans les musées allemands, 1951, no. 4, pl. 4, lent by Städtisches Museum, Wuppertal.
1954–55 Paris
Orangerie, Paris, Van Gogh et les peintres d'Auvers-sur-Oise, November 26, 1954–February 28, 1955, no. 16, as L'Hermitage à Pontoise.
1956 Recklinghausen
Städtische Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, Germany, Beginn und Reife, June 17–July 30, 1956, no. 65, ill., as L'Hermitage à Pontoise, 1875-77.
1956 Munich
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 19, ill. lent by Städtisches Museum, Wuppertal.
1956–57 Cologne
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.
1958 Amsterdam
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, De Renaissance der XXe Eeuw, July 4–September 24, 1958, no. 2.
1961 Wolfsburg
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.
1963 Berlin
Nationalgalerie, Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, Die Ile de France und ihre Maler, September 29–November 24, 1963, no. 21.
2000 Vienna and traveling
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 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
2005–06 New York and traveling
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 (Cézanne et Pissarro 1865-1885).
2008 Wuppertal
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.
2011–12 Paris
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.
2012–13 Budapest
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 106, ill.
2014a Madrid
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 53, ill.
2015–16 Cleveland and traveling
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.
2017–18 Karlsruhe
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 16, ill.
Published References
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 1.
Kreitmaier 1926
Kreitmaier, Josef. Von Kunst und Künstlern. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 1926, pl. 8.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 176, ill. vol. II, as Pontoise: l'Ermitage.
Rewald 1937a
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 1938
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 120.
Raynal 1954
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1954, p. 41, ill.
Feist 1963
Feist, Peter Heinz. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1963, pp. 15, 27, 28, pl. 28.
Reidemeister 1963
Reidemeister, Leopold. Auf den Spuren der Maler der Ile de France. Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 1963, p. 68, ill.
Wadley 1975
Wadley, Nicholas. Cézanne and His Art. London: Hamlyn, 1975, pl. 27.
Harris 1982
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 34, ill. in color.
Barskaya 1983a
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 129.
Von der Heydt Museum 1984
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.
Wadley 1989
Wadley, Nicholas. Cézanne and His Art. London: Hamlyn, 1989, p. 33, ill. in color.
Lartigue 1995
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 68, ill.
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. 484, ill. vol. 2, as L'Hermitage à Pontoise.
Dittmann 2005
Dittmann, Lorenz. Die Kunst Cézannes: Farbe, Rythmus, Symbolik. Cologne: Böhlau, 2005, p. 89, ill. in b/w.
Machotka 2008
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 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. 62–63, ill., as L'Hermitage à Pontoise, with present-day photograph of motif.
Pissarro 2011
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 2020
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: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Hermitage à Pontoise, 1881 (FWN 159)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=473 (accessed on April 23, 2024).