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 178
Les Toits de Paris
c.1882
Alternate titles: Blick auf die Dächer; Dächer; Die Dächer; Les Toits; Les toits, vue de Paris
Rewald (503): c.1882; Venturi revised: 1873–75; Venturi (175): 1874–77; Rivière: 1878; Ratcliffe: 1882
Oil on canvas
23 3/8 x 28 1/5 in. (59.4 x 72.4 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3772, huile; les toits gris sur un ciel gris de toile, 60 x 73 cm (175 frs)
Private collection
Provenance
Paul Cassirer, Berlin (Private collection) (Mar. 13, 1913);
Private collection, Montreal
Private collection
Private collection
Exhibition History
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XII. Jahrgang, III. Ausstellung, November 17–December 12, 1909, no. 5, as Die Dächer, lent by Vollard.
Manzi, Joyant & Cie, l'Hôtel de la revue "Les Arts," Paris, Exposition d'art moderne, June 6–July 6, 1912, no. 6, as Les Toits, [lent by Vollard].
Moderne Galerie [Heinrich Thannhauser], Munich, [unknown title], December 1912, no. 6, as Die Dächer, lent by Vollard.
Berlin, XXVI. Ausstellung der Berliner Secession, Spring 1913, no. 27, as Dächer, lent by Cassirer.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XV. Jahrgang, Sommer 1913, [Zehnte Ausstellung], July– c. September 26, 1913, as Blick auf die Dächer.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Cézanne-Ausstellung: Cézannes Werke in deutschem Privatbesitz: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, November–December 11, 1921, no. 6, as Die Dächer, lent by P. Cassirer private collection.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Honderd jaar Fransche kunst, July 2–September 25, 1938, no. 15, as Les toits, vue de Paris, lent by O. Federer.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 32. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Cinco Siglos de arte francés, May 24–June 24, 1977, no. 49, ill.
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne et Paris, October 12, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 2, ill., p. 18, as Les Toits de Paris, 1881-82, lent by Private collection.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 52, ill.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 31, ill. Private collection. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 179.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 217.
Waldmann, Emil. "Paul Cézanne: zur Ausstellung im Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer." Kunst und Künstler 20, no. 4 (1922), ill. p. 132, as Dächer.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 206, listed.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. LXXXI.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 175, ill. vol. II, as Les Toits.
Cogniat, Raymond. "Le 19 janvier 1839 naissait Cézanne … A la découverte des demeures de l'artiste, à Paris et en Provence." Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 316 (January 20, 1939), ill. p. 1 (with photograph of motif).
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 30, as Les toits, vue de Paris, c. 1880.
Sutton, Denys. "The Paradoxes of Cézanne." Apollo (London) 100, no. 150 (August 1974), fig. 2 p. 99.
Adriani, Götz. Cézanne Gemälde. Cologne: DuMont, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 1, cited under no. 21.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 226, 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. 503, ill. vol. 2, as Les Toits de Paris.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed., Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 37, ill., as Les Toits de Paris.
Coutagne, Denis. "Les 'Paris' de Cézanne." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 18, ill., p. 14 (detail), as Les Toits de Paris, dated 1881–82.
Marion, Jean Luc. "La Peinture en vérité: La vérité en peinture." In Courbet/Cézanne: La vérité en peinture. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 16, fig. 3.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Kollektion Paul Cézanne: 17. November bis 12. Dezember 1909." Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1908-1910. vol. 4, "Ganz eigenartige neue Werte". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2013, p. 314, ill.
Nagaï, Takanori. "Cézanne and Jas de Bouffan." In Le "basho" dans l'art moderne français. Tokyo: Sangensha, 2016, p. 129, ill.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Sommerausstellung: Juli bis Ende September 1913." In Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1912-1914 vol. 6, "Eine neue Klassik". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2016, p. 415, ill.
Nagaï, Takanori. "L'idée de l'anti-modernisation social chez Cézanne." Bulletin of Kyoto Institute of Technology 14 (February 2022), fig. 38.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. "Cézanne nostalgique: Nostalgia, Memory, Illusion." Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, 22, no. 2 (Autumn 2023), fig. 6.
Record last updated March 17, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Les Toits de Paris, c.1882 (FWN 178)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=492 (accessed on July 18, 2025).
