Catalogue entry

FWN 166
La Rivière
c.1881
Alternate title: Bords de l'Oise
Rewald (498): c.1881; Venturi revised: c.1890; Venturi (644): 1888–94; Rivière: 1885
Oil on canvas
19 11/16 x 24 in. (50 x 61 cm)
22 1/4 x 25 3/4 in. (56.5 x 65.4 cm) (Minneapolis, 2015))
Vollard archives: photo no. 103, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Copie de Delacroix, circa 1885
Private collection, Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, Minnesota

Keywords

Provenance
Victor Chocquet, Paris;
Mme veuve Chocquet (née Marie Buisson) (1891);
Chocquet Collection, Galerie G. Petit, Paris, July 1–4, 1899, hors catalogue
Eugène Blot, Paris;
Blot Collection, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 9–10 1900, no. 18, ill.; bought in;
Blot Collection, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 10, 1906, no. 18
Maurice Gangnat, Paris;
Gangnat Collection, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 24–25, 1925, no. 165, ill.; bought in;
Private collection
Sotheby's, London, June 21, 2011, no. 20, ill.
Private collection
Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, Minnesota
Exhibition History
1907a Paris
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Rétrospective d'oeuvres de Cézanne, October 1–22, 1907, no. 40, as La Rivière, lent by Gangnat.
1952c Paris
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, Cinquante ans de peinture française dans les collections particulières de Cézanne à Matisse, March–April 1952, no. 28, as Bords de l'Oise, 1888, lent by Gangnat.
1953 Aix-en-Provence and traveling
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 4–August 4, 1953, no. 17, lent by Gangnat. Traveled to: Musée Masséna, Nice, France, August 8–September 12, 1953; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble, France, September 15–October 18, 1953.
1957e Paris
Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, Le Second Empire de Winterhalter à Renoir, May–June 1957, no. 40, as La Rivière.
2015–16 Minneapolis and traveling
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art, October 18, 2015–January 16, 2016, no. 79, ill. lent by Private collection, Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, Minnesota. Traveled to: National Gallery, London, February 17–May 22, 2016.
Published References
Shirakaba 1912b
Shirakaba 3, no. 9 (September 1912), ill. p. 96, page illlustrated in Schoneveld, 2019, p. 60, fig. 49.
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 212, listed.
Charensol 1925
Charensol, Georges. "La vente Gagnat." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 14 (July 15, 1925), p. 27, as Bords de l'Oise.
Faure 1925
Faure, Élie. "A propos d'une collection célèbre: la collection Gangnat." La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe (Paris), vol. 8, no. 4 (April 1925), ill. p. 169, as Bords de l'Oise.
Werth 1925
Werth, Leon. "La collection Gangnat." L'Amour de l'art 6, no. 2 (February 1925), ill. p. 54, as Bords de l'Oise.
Blot 1934
Blot, Eugène. Histoire d'une collection de tableaux modernes, 50 ans de peinture (de 1882 à 1932). Paris: Editions d'Art, 1934, p. 36, says it is a copy of a small Delacroix and that he bought it from the Doria sale (May 1899), but seems to have confused it with the Chocquet sale (July 1899).
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 644, ill. vol. II, as La Rivière.
Taylor 1953
Taylor, Basil. The Impressionists and Their World. London: Phoenix House, 1953, pl. 49.
Rewald 1969
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), p. 94, note 60.
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. 498, ill. vol. 2, as La Rivière.
Chédeville and Hurtu 2021
Chédeville, François, and Raymond Hurtu. "Cezanne sur les bords de Marne." Société Cezanne, August 2021, fig. 285, c. 1888, suggested new title: La Pointe de l'île Brise-Pain à la sortie du Bras du Chapitre à Créteil.
Record last updated December 15, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Rivière, c.1881 (FWN 166)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=487 (accessed on April 23, 2024).