The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
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David Harris; © The Israel Museum Jerusalem
FWN 189
L'Estaque le matin, vu à contre-jour
1882–83
Alternate titles: L'Estaque di mattina, in controluce; Landschaft; Landschaft, Blick auf eine kleine Stadt; Paysage à l'Estaque; Paysage, vue sur une petite ville
Rewald: (516) 1882–83; Venturi revised: 1883–85; Venturi: (410) 1882–85; Gowing: 1885–86; Ratcliffe: probably November 1883 to February 1884
Oil on canvas
23 5/8 x 36 3/16 in. (60 x 92 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Vom Abbild zum Sinnbild, June 3–July 3, 1931, no. 26 (?), as Landschaft, tentative identification, lent by Private collection.
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Sammlung Oskar Schmitz: Französische Malerei des XIX, Jahrhunderts, 1932, no. 32, as Paysage, vue sur une petite ville.
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Französische Malerei des XIX. Jahrhunderts, May 14–August 6, 1933, no. 88, (dated c. 1890), as Landschaft, Blick auf eine kleine Stadt, lent by Schmitz.
Wildenstein Galleries, Paris, La Collection Oskar Schmitz, 1936, no. 11, ill.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, The Oscar Schmitz Collection, 1936, no. 11, ill.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Landscape in French Art, 1550–1900, December 10, 1949–March 5, 1950, no. 314, ill. no. 56 in Book of Illustrations.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 27, ill. lent by Lord Rothschild.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 36, ill. lent by Rothschild.
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, The Sam Spiegel Collection, June 22–August 29, 1993, no. 9, ill.
Complesso dei Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni, March 7–July 7, 2002, listed p. 140, ill, as L'Estaque di mattina, in controluce, lent by the Israel Museum.
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. 186.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 227.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. LXXXVIII.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 410, ill. vol. II as Paysage à l'Estaque.
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. 56.
Cogniat, Raymond. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1939, pl. 61.
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 80, listed p. 157 (err.: for correct text see pl. 78).
Johnson, Ellen. "Cézanne and a Pine Tree." Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 21, no. 1 (Fall 1963), p. 13.
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. 516, ill. vol. 2 as L'Estaque le matin, vu à contre-jour.
Rachum, Stephanie. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist. Painting and Sculpture in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. New York: Abrams, 2005, no. 52, ill. p. 136.
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Oeuvre de Cezanne à L'Estaque, Huiles – Aquarelles – Dessins, 1864–1885. Marseille: Éditions Gaussen, 2019, fig. 96 (discusson p. 86) as L'Estaque le matin, vu à contre-jour.