The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
Catalogue entry
FWN 186
L'Aqueduc du canal de Verdon au nord d'Aix
1882–83
Alternate titles: L'acquedotto del canale di Verdon a nord di Aix; La Vallée de l'Arc
Rewald: (520) 1882–83; Venturi revised: c.1878; Venturi: (296) 1878–83; Rivière: c.1891
Oil on canvas
22 3/8 x 28 5/16 in. (57 x 72 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3769, un premier plan jaune, un second vert, au loin une sorte d'aqueduc, 73 x 60 cm (175 frs)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 3565, Paysage; aqueduc de Roc Faveur, 60 x 73 cm (300 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 127, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Viaduc d'Aix, circa 1885
Private collection, Bern
Provenance
Private collection, Switzerland;
Private collection, Bern
Exhibition History
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 29, (dated c. 1880), as La Vallée de l'Arc, lent by E. Hahnloser.
Galerie de la Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, La peinture française du XIXe siècle en Suisse, March–June 1938 (exhibition catalogue; organised for the benefit of the Société helvetique de bienfaisance en France), no. 4, pl. IV, lent by anon.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July, 1939 (exhibition catalogue; introduction and catalogue commentary by John Rewald). Watercolors and drawings were also shown, no. 27, lent by E.H, Winterthur.
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, December, 1939–February, 1940 (exhibition catalogue; foreword by Joseph Billet), no. 20, lent by E. Hahnloser, Winterthur.
Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland, Europäische Kunst aus Berner Privatbesitz, July 31–September 20, 1953, no. 15.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition Cézanne: Tableaux, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 1–August 15, 1961, no. 8, pl. 5.
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961 (exhibition catalogue; preface by Fritz Novotny), no. 18.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993 (exhibition catalogue; text by Götz Adriani with an essay by Walter Feilchenfeldt), no. 28, ill.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, From Manet to Gauguin: Masterpieces from Swiss Private Collections, June 30–October 8, 1995, no. 5, ill.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999 (exhibition catalogue), no. 24, ill., as L'Aqueduc du canal de Verdon au nord d'Aix. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
Complesso dei Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni, March 7–July 7, 2002 (exhibition catalogue; curated by Maria Teresa Benedetti), listed p. 142, ill, as L'acquedotto del canale di Verdon a nord di Aix, lent by Private collection.
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Switzerland, Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017. Curated by Daniel Marchesseau (exhibition catalogue), no. 34, ill., lent by Private collection, Switzerland.
Published References
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 219, listed.
Courthion, Pierre. "La Collection Emile Hahnloser." Amour de l'Art 7, no. 2 (February 1926), p. 51, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 296, ill. vol. II as La Vallée de l'Arc.
"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), p. 64, ill.
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. 520, ill. vol. 2 as L'Aqueduc du canal de Verdon au nord d'Aix.
Schmidt, Bertram. Cézannes Lehre. Kiel: Ludwig, 2004, fig. 27.
Record last updated November 13, 2017. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. "L'Aqueduc du canal de Verdon au nord d'Aix, 1882–83 (FWN 186)." The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. http://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=509 (accessed on February 22, 2019).