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© The Kreeger Museum, Washington, D.C.
FWN 174
Maisons et sapins
c.1881
Alternate titles: Auvers. La route tournante; La Route tournante; Road near Auvers; Route tournante et sapin; Rue de village; Straße in Auvers; Tournant de route à Auvers; Tournant de route près d'Auvers
Rewald (502): c.1881; Venturi revised: c.1882; Venturi (334): 1879–82
Oil on canvas
18 1/2 x 21 11/16 in. (47 x 55.2 cm)
Signed lower left in red: P. Cezanne
Vollard archives: photo no. 259, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Pontoise 1875
Kreeger Museum, Washington, D.C.

Keywords

Provenance
Julien-François (Père) Tanguy, Paris;
Tanguy sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 2, 1894, no. 9 Coin de Village
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Galerie Laffitte (Lucien Moline), Paris (June 25, 1895)
Paul Gallimard, Paris
Paul Rosenberg, Paris
Marquis de Rochecouste, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, and Knoedler Galleries, New York (May 1925)
John Nicholas Brown, Providence, Rhode Island (Nov. 1928);
Hope Foundation, Providence
Mr. and Mrs. David Lloyd Kreeger, Washington, D.C.;
Kreeger Museum, Washington, D.C.
Exhibition History
1904 Brussels
La Libre Esthétique, Brussels, Exposition des peintres impressionnistes, February 25–March 29, 1904, no. 18, as Rue de village, lent by Paul Gallimard.
1926c London
Knoedler Galleries, London, Nineteenth Century French Painters, July ?–31, 1926, no. 20, as Auvers. La route tournante.
1928f New York
Knoedler Galleries, New York, A Century of French Painting, November 12–December 8, 1928, no. 23, ill., as Tournant de route à Auvers.
1929 Cambridge, Mass.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, French Painting of the XIXth and XXth Centuries, March 6–April 6, 1929, no. 9, pl. XXVI, as Tournant de route à Auvers, lent by J.N. Brown.
1929 New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The museum's first loan exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, November 8–December 7, 1929, no. 15, ill., (dated c. 1882), as Road near Auvers, lent by John Nicholas Brown.
1930 Providence
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, Modern French Art, March 11–31, 1930, no. 3, lent by J.N. Brown.
1933b Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 317, (dated 1880–82), lent by J.N. Brown.
1934 Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November–December 1934, no. 10, (dated c. 1880–82), as Tournant de route à Auvers, lent by J.N. Brown.
1936c Paris
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 52, as La Route tournante, lent by J.N. Brown.
1937 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 11, ill. lent by J.N. Brown.
1939 Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Paintings Drawings Prints from Private Collections in New England, June 9–September 10, 1939, no. 11, pl. VI.
1951 Omaha
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, The Beginnings of Modern Painting: France, 1800–1910, October 4–November 4, 1951.
1954 Providence
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, Cézanne, September 23–October 24, 1954, no. 17, lent by anon.
1971 Washington, D.C. and traveling
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 10, ill., p. 51. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
Published References
Bernard 1891
Bernard, Émile. "Paul Cézanne." Les Hommes d'aujourd'hui 8, no. 387 (1891), (described), seen at Schuffenecker's.
Lanoë 1907
Lanoë, G. "Cezanne." Les Tendances Nouvelles 32 (1907), p. 625, quotes from E. Bernard, 1891: "sapins le long d'une grande route bordée de villas et d'herbes" seen chez Schuffenecker.
Manson 1928
Manson, James Bolivar. "A Century of French Painting." Apollo 8 (November 1928), ill. opp. p. 278.
Neven 1928
Neven, M. "Ein Jahrhundert französischer Kunst." Der Cicerone 20, no. 22 (1928), p. 763, as Straße in Auvers.
Bulliet 1936
Bulliet, Clarence Joseph. The Significant Moderns and Their Pictures. New York: Covici, 1936, pl. 20.
Raynal 1936
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. XLIV p. 73.
Huyghe 1936b
Huyghe, René. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 52 p. 172, as Tournant de route près d'Auvers, c. 1880-82.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 334, ill. vol. II, as La Route tournante.
Goldwater 1938
Goldwater, Robert J. "Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections." Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), ill.
Bodelsen 1968b
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. 53 (Tanguy sale).
Dorra 1970
Dorra, Henri. Kreeger Collection. Washington, D.C.: [privately published], 1970, pp. 12–13, 64, ill. p. 65.
Sharpe 1976
Sharpe, Margy P., ed. The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. David Lloyd Kreeger. Richmond, VA: W.M. Brown, 1976, pp. 66–67, ill.
Venturi 1978
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 82, ill.
Kostenevich 1995
Kostenevich, Albert. Hidden Treasures Revealed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 187, fig. 2.
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. 502, ill. vol. 2, as Maisons et sapins.
Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 174, ill., as Route tournante et sapin.
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. "Maisons et sapins, c.1881 (FWN 174)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=491 (accessed on April 26, 2024).