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Catalogue entry

FWN 179
Les Coteaux du Chou, Pontoise
1882
Alternate titles: Auvers, du coté du Val Harmé; Auvers, gesehen van Val Harmé; Auvers-sur-Oise vu du coté du Val Harmé; Blick auf ein Dorf im Grünen; Cabbage Patch in Pontoise; Landschaft; Maisons à Pontoise, près de Valhermeil; Maisons à Valhermeil vues en direction d'Auvers-sur-Oise; Maisons au Chou, à Pontoise, près du Valhermeil; Paysage à Auvers
Rewald (493): 1882; Venturi revised: 1880–81; Venturi (318): 1879–82; Ratcliffe: probably between March and September 1882; Machotka et al: 1882
Oil on canvas
28 11/16 x 36 3/16 in. (73 x 92 cm)

Keywords

Provenance
(Ambroise Vollard, Paris?)
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
Paul Cassirer, Berlin (June 1, 1904)
Adolf Rothermundt, Dresden (Sept. 2, 1904)
Georg Caspari, Munich, and Hugo Perls, Berlin (confiscated by the French government)
Paul Cassirer, Berlin (Aug. 19, 1921)
Baron Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe and Paris (Aug. 19, 1921)
Otto Wertheimer, Paris
Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich (1950)
Alfred Hausammann, Zurich (1950);
Karin Behrens-Hausammann, Zurich
Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich (1986)
J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu (1986)
Acquavella Galleries, New York
Private collection, Japan
Christie's, London, Feb. 4, 2002, no. 18, ill.
Exhibition History
1904 Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Sonderausstellung Paul Cézanne, April 22–June 15, 1904, no number, as Blick auf ein Dorf im Grünen.
1950 Zurich
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Europäische Kunst, 13. bis 20. Jahrhundert, June 6–August 13, 1950, listed p. 26, as Paysage à Auvers, 1879/82, lent by Private collection.
1955 Winterthur
Kunstmuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland, Europäische Meister, 1790–1910, June 12–July 24, 1955, no. 30, as Auvers, du coté du Val Harmé, lent by Private collection, Zurich.
1956 Zurich
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Paul Cézanne, August 22–October 7, 1956, no. 38, lent by Private collection, Zürich.
1959 Paris
Petit Palais, Paris, De Géricault à Matisse: chefs-d'oeuvre français des collections suisses, March–May 1959, no. 17.
1961 Vienna
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 16, pl. 8.
1963 Schaffhausen
Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Die Welt des Impressionismus, June 29–September 29, 1963, no. 7, ill., as Auvers, gesehen van Val Harmé, 1882, lent by Private collection, Zurich.
1963 Berlin
Nationalgalerie, Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, Die Ile de France und ihre Maler, September 29–November 24, 1963, no. 23.
1964 Lausanne
Palais de Beaulieu, Lausanne, Switzerland, Chefs-d'œuvre des collections suisses: de Manet à Picasso, May 1–October 25, 1964, no. 88, ill., as Auvers-sur-Oise vu du coté du Val Harmé, 1879-1882, lent by Private collection, Zurich.
1967b Paris
Orangerie, Paris, Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections suisses de Manet à Picasso, May 10–October 2, 1967, no. 87, ill. lent by Private collection, Zurich.
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. 96, ill., p. 200 (dated 1882), as Maisons à Pontoise, près de Valhermeil, lent by Private collection. 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).
Published References
Duret 1907
Duret, Théodore. "Paul Cézanne." Kunst und Künstler 5, no. 3 (1907), ill. p. 92, as Landschaft.
Fechter 1910
Fechter, Paul. "Die Sammlung Rothermundt." Kunst und Künstler 8, no. 7 (1910), p. 350, ill. p. 351.
Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 1920a
"Confiscation de tableaux." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 1, no. 26 (December 15, 1920), p. 751, ill.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 318, ill. vol. II, as Auvers, du coté du Val Harmé.
Novotny 1937
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 27.
Novotny 1947
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 36, as Paysage à Auvers, c. 1880.
Reff 1962c
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Constructive Stroke." Art Quarterly 25, no. 3 (Autumn 1962), p. 221.
Reidemeister 1963
Reidemeister, Leopold. Auf den Spuren der Maler der Ile de France. Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 1963, p. 73, ill.
Ramuz 1968
Ramuz, Charles Ferdinand. Cézanne Formes. Lausanne: International Art Book, 1968, pl. 10.
Lartigue 1995
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 49, 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. 493, ill. vol. 2, as Maisons à Valhermeil vues en direction d'Auvers-sur-Oise.
Schmidt 2004a
Schmidt, Bertram. Cézannes Lehre. Kiel: Ludwig, 2004, fig. 24.
Mothe et al. 2006
Mothe, Alain, et al. Cézanne à Auvers-sur-Oise. Saint-Ouen-L'Aumône: editions du Valharmeil, 2006, p. 125, ill. (Private collection, Zurich).
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 165; vol. 2, p. 118, as Maisons à Valhermeil vues en direction d'Auvers-sur-Oise.
Echte and Feilchenfeldt 2011b
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Paul Cézanne, 22. April bis 15. Juni 1904." Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1901-1905. vol. 2, "Man steht da und staunt". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2011, p. 513, ill.
National Museum of Western Art 2018a
The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. 1, Paintings. Tokyo: National Museum of Western Art, 2018, p. 125, no. 225, ill., as Cabbage Patch in Pontoise.
Notes

The title adopted here was suggested by Alain Mothe.  Camille Pissarro painted the same subject, (Les Coteaux du Chou, Pontoise, Pissarro-Snollaerts, 2005, no. 673, dated 1882).

Record last updated March 28, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Les Coteaux du Chou, Pontoise, 1882 (FWN 179)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=482 (accessed on March 29, 2024).