The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
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© The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
FWN 163
La Route tournante (rue des Roches au Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise)
c.1881
Alternate titles: Environs d'Aix; Environs d'Aix-en-Provence; Environs of Aix; La Route tournante; La Route tournante au Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise; Turn in the Road; Twisting Road
Rewald: (490) c.1881; Venturi revised: c.1881; Venturi: (329) 1879–82; Cooper: spring 1881; Gowing: c.1881 (Edinburgh); Machotka et al: circa 1881
Oil on canvas
23 5/8 x 28 11/16 in. (60 x 73 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Paul Cézanne, January, 1928 (exhibition catalogue; preface by Maud Dale), no. 14, as Environs d'Aix, lent by Spaulding.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1929.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, French Painting of the XIXth and XXth Centuries, March 6–April 6, 1929, no. 5, pl. XXIII, as Environs d'Aix-en-Provence, lent by John T. Spaulding.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1931–32.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1934, no. 292, as Environs of Aix, lent by John T. Spaulding.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The John T. Spaulding Collection, May 26–November 7, 1948, no. 8, pl. 2.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952 (exhibition catalogue; introduction by Theodore Rousseau, Jr. and text to illustrations by Daniel C. Rich), no. 42, ill., lent by Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954 (exhibition catalogue; introduction by Lawrence Gowing and catalogue notes by Lawrence Gowing and Ronald Alley). An important loan exhibition, no. 26, pl. III, lent by MFA, Boston. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959 (exhibition catalogue; foreword by Meyer Schapiro), no. 19, ill., lent by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Phillips Collection, Washington, District of Columbia, Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971 (exhibition catalogue; introduction by John Rewald, with excerpts from the writings of Duncan Phillips), no. 11. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Impressionism, June 15–October 14, 1973.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974 (exhibition catalogue; catalogue by Chuji Ikegami, with essays by John Rewald, Denys Sutton, Fritz Novotny, and Adrien Chappuis), no. 29. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974. Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, June 28–September 16, 1984, no. 72. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, October 23, 1984–January 6, 1985. Grand Palais, Paris, February 8–April 22, 1985.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993 (exhibition catalogue; text by Götz Adriani with an essay by Walter Feilchenfeldt), no. 27, ill.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996. Organised by Réunion des musées nationaux / musée d'Orsay, Tate Gallery and Philadelphia Museum of Art. Initially scheduled to end on January 7 the Paris exhibition was prolonged until January 14. (exhibition catalogue; text by Françoise Cachin and Joseph Rishel with contributions by Isabelle Cahn, Walter Feilchenfeldt and Henri Loyrette; English edition: Cézanne, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1996), no. 76, ill., shown in Philadelphia only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–1885, June 26–September 12, 2005, no. 59, ill., p. 155, as La Route tournante. Traveled to: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, October 20, 2005–September 12, 2006. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, February 27–May 28, 2006.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009. Organized by Joseph J. Rishel and Katherine Sachs, pl. 206, p. 524, as La Route tournante.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013. Curated by Judit Geskó, no. 110, ill.
Published References
Bernard, Émile. "Paul Cézanne." Les Hommes d'aujourd'hui 8, no. 387 (1891), (described), seen at Tanguy's.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 329, ill. vol. II as La Route tournante.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 33.
Vollard, Ambroise. Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux. Paris: Albin Michel, 1937, pl. 30.
Goldwater, Robert J. "Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections." Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 149, ill.
Lhote, André. Traité du paysage. Paris: Floury, 1939, pl. 44 (with commentary).
Cogniat, Raymond. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1939, pl. 36.
Wilenski, R.H. Modern French Painters. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1940, fig. 15A.
Jewell, Edward Alden. Paul Cézanne. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944, p. 43, ill.
Dame, L. "Spaulding Collection Willed to Boston Museum." Art Digest 22 (June 1, 1948), p. 12, ill.
Edgell, Gorge Harold. French Painters in the Museum of Fine Arts: Corot to Utrillo. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1949, p. 51, ill.
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1954, p. 55, ill.
Cooper, Douglas. "Two Cézanne Exhibitions." Burlington 96, no. 620 (November 1954), pp. 378–79.
Erpel, Fritz. Paul Cézanne. Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1958, p. 21, ill.
Lhote, André. Traités du paysage et de la figure. Paris: B. Grasset, 1958, fig. 43 (with commentary).
Andersen, Wayne V. "Cézanne, Tanguy, Choquet [sic]." Art Bulletin 49, no. 2 (June 1967), p. 139, note 22.
Bodelsen, Merete. "Early Impressionist Sales 1874–94 in the Light of Some Unpublished 'Procès-Verbaux.'" Burlington 110, no. 783 (June 1968), p. 345.
Ikegami, Chuji. Cézanne. Tokyo: Shueisha, 1969, pl. 18.
Brion, Marcel. Cézanne. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974, p. 39.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 82, ill.
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 100, ill, b/w.
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 126, ill.
Distel, Anne. Les Collectionneurs des impressionnistes: Amateurs et marchands. Paris: La Bibliothèque des arts, 1989, p. 67, ill.
Naubert-Riser, Constance. Cézanne. London: Studio Editions, 1994, p. 27.
Kostenevich, Albert. Hidden Treasures Revealed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 187, fig. 1.
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. 490, ill. vol. 2 as La Route tournante.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 210, pl. 127.
Tanaka, Hidemichi. "Cézanne and 'Japonisme.'" Artibus et Historiae 22, no. 44 (2001), p. 204, fig. 4 as Twisting Road.
Schmidt, Bertram. Cézannes Lehre. Kiel: Ludwig, 2004, fig. 9.
Mothe, Alain, et al. Cézanne à Auvers-sur-Oise. Saint-Ouen-L'Aumône: editions du Valharmeil, 2006, p. 49, ill, with old postcard view of motif (detail), p. 48, identified as rue des Roches.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 162; vol. 2, p. 117 as La Route tournante.
Chevrier, Jean-François. "Jeff Wall: Within the View(ing), or The Spirit of Place." In Cézanne and Beyond. New Haven: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 524, pl. 206 as Turn in the Road.
Taylor, Michael R. "Learning from 'Papa Cézanne': Arshile Gorky and the (Self-) Invention of the Modern Artist." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 419, ill. p. 524, pl. 206 as Turn in the Road.
Chiappini, Rudy. "Quel silenzio, in attesa del tempo della rivelazione." In Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi. Milan: Skira, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 33, fig. 16.
Mothe, Alain. Ce que voyait Cézanne: Les paysages impressionnistes à la lumière des cartes postales. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011, pp. 44–45, ill. as La Route tournante au Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise, with old postcard general view of the hamlet.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed, Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 73, ill. as La Route tournante, dated 1881.
Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne abstraction faite. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2011, p. 168, fig. 110.
Coutagne, Denis. "Chemin-Cezanne." In Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 22, fig. 4.
Alain Mothe has identified the site as rue des Roches au Valhermeil, hence the new title.
Record last updated September 19, 2018. 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. "La Route tournante (rue des Roches au Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise), c.1881 (FWN 163)." The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. http://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=479 (accessed on February 22, 2019).