The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
(Formerly directed by Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash)
FWN 173
Le Pont et le déversoir à Pontoise
1881
Alternate titles: Le Pont et le Barrage; Le Pont et le Barrage à Pontoise; Le Pont et le Barrage, Pontoise; Paysage à Pontoise or Le Pont de le barrage or Le barrage à Pontoise; The Railroad Bridge and Dam, Pontoise
Rewald (500): 1881; Venturi revised: 1880–81; Venturi (316): 1879–82; Rivière: 1880
Oil on canvas
23 5/8 x 28 11/16 in. (60 x 73 cm)
Provenance
Private collection;
Private collection, Geneva
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 6–17, 1914, no. 14, as Le Pont et le Barrage, lent by Bernheim-Jeune private collection.
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Cézanne and Gauguin, November 1–December 13, 1936, no. 22, ill., as Le Pont et le Barrage, Pontoise, lent by Carroll Carstairs.
Los Angeles Art Association, Los Angeles, 1937.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 8, ill. lent by Knoedler.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–1885, June 26–September 12, 2005, no. 87, ill., p. 191, as Le Pont et le Barrage à Pontoise, 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).
Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan, Cézanne, Pioneer of Modern Art, April 4–September 27, 2015, no. 13, ill. lent by The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo.
Published References
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. Cézanne. With contributions by O. Mirbeau, T. Duret, L. Werth, et al. Paris: Editions Hollande, 1914, pl. XXXI.
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. L'Art moderne et quelques aspects de l'art d'autrefois: cent-soixante-treize planches d'après la collection privée de MM. J. & G. Bernheim-Jeune, poèmes de Henri de Régnier , 2 vols. Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1919, pl. 20.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 209, listed.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 316, ill. vol. II, as Le Pont et le Barrage à Pontoise.
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), p. 54, as ...paysage exécuté à Potoise ...
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Cézanne: Intimate Exhibition." Art News 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 13, ill.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Constructive Stroke." Art Quarterly 25, no. 3 (Autumn 1962), p. 220.
Bodelsen, Merete. "Early Impressionist Sales 1874–94 in the light of some unpublished 'procès-verbaux.'" The Burlington Magazine 110, no. 783 (June 1968), p. 346 and procès verbal no. 60 (Tanguy sale).
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. 500, ill. vol. 2, as Le Pont et le Barrage à Pontoise.
White, Barbara Ehrlich. Impressionists Side by Side. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996, p. 120, ill. with Pissarro's view of the same site, as The Railroad Bridge and Dam, 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. 66–67, ill., as Le Pont et le déversoir à Pontoise, with old postcard view of motif.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed., Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 74, ill., as Le Pont et le Barrage à Pontoise, with photo of motif by C. Crès (p. 74).
Nagaï, Takanori. "Cézanne and Jas de Bouffan." In Le "basho" dans l'art moderne français. Tokyo: Sangensha, 2016, p. 130, ill.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 150, ill., as Paysage à Pontoise or Le Pont de le barrage or Le barrage à Pontoise, installation photograph from 1914 exhibition, p. 101, and photograph of work hanging in the Bernheim-Jeune residence at 107 avenue Henri Martin, p. 7, and Josse's residence at 17 rue Desbordes-Valmore, p. 13.
Notes
This painting depicts the ralroad bridge in the background and a spillway (déversoir) in the middle ground. Camille Pissarro painted the same scene in Pontoise in 1873.
Le Pont et le déversoir à Pontoise, image from A.Mothe
Camille Pissarro, Le Pont du chemin de fer Pontoise, 1873. Private collection, UK.
Record last updated October 27, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Pont et le déversoir à Pontoise, 1881 (FWN 173)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=489 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
