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 193
Vue sur l'Estaque et le château d'If
1883–85
Alternate titles: Dorf am Meer; Dorf am Meeresufer; L'Estaque; La baie de Marseille; La mer à l'Estaque; Landschaft, L'Estaque; View of L'Estaque; View of L'Estaque and the Château d'If; Vue de L'Estaque; Vue sur l'Estaque
Rewald (531): 1883–85; Venturi revised: 1883–85; Venturi (406): 1882–85; Rivière: c.1879–80; Cooper: early summer 1885 (Courtauld); Gowing: early summer 1885 (Edinburgh) and c.1885; Other: Novotny: circa 1883
Oil on canvas
28 x 22 11/16 in. (71 x 57.7 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3720, Marine à Lestac, maisons rouges entourées de pins parasols; derriere mer bleue, 73 x 60 cm (150 frs)
Private collection, U.S.A.
Provenance
Private collection;
Private collection, U.S.A.
Exhibition History
La Libre Esthétique, Brussels, Exposition des peintres impressionnistes, February 25–March 29, 1904, no. 14, as La baie de Marseille, lent by Baron Cochin.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Collectiv-Ausstellung, VIII. Jahrgang, VI. Ausstellung, February 20–March 14, 1906, no. 10, as Dorf am Meeresufer.
Kaiser Friedrich-Museum, Posen, Poland, [Französische Impressionisten], Beginning of May 1906, as Dorf am Meer.
Galerie Miethke, Dorotheergasse 11 and Graben 17, Vienna, [Französische Kunst der Gegenwart (Gauguin-Ausstellung)], March 15–April 28, 1907, no. 92, as Dorf am Meer, tentative identification, lent by Cassirer.
S.V.U. Mánes, Pavillon Mánes, Prague, Francouzští impressionisté [French Impressionists], September 27–November 30, 1907, no. 56, tentative identification.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XII. Jahrgang, III. Ausstellung, November 17–December 12, 1909, no. 2, as L'Estaque.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XIII. Jahrgang, Winter 1910/1911, VIII. Ausstellung, March 1911, no. 4, as Landschaft, L'Estaque.
La Libre Esthétique, Brussels, Interprétations du Midi, March 8–April 13, 1913, no. 50, as L'Estaque.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 6–17, 1914, no. 3, as L'Estaque, for sale.
Montross Gallery, New York, Cézanne, January 1–31, 1916, no. 3, ill., as L'Estaque, lent by Bernheim-Jeune.
Kunstnerforbundet, Kristiania (Oslo), Norway, Den franske Utstilling, January–February 1918, no. 8, as L'Estaque, lent by Halvorsen?
Leicester Galleries, London, Paintings and Drawings by Paul Cézanne, June–July 1925, no. 7, ill. in b/w, as L'Estaque, [lent by Halvorsen?]
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 32, lent by S. Courtauld.
Tate Gallery, London, Samuel Courtauld: Memorial Exhibition, May–June 1948, no. 8, as L'Estaque, c. 1885.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Landscape in French Art, 1550–1900, December 10, 1949–March 5, 1950, no. 308, as View of L'Estaque, probably 1885, lent by Mrs R.A. Butler.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 34, as Vue sur l'Estaque, c. 1885, lent by Mrs. R.A. Butler; shown only in Edinburgh. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Impressionnistes de la Collection Courtauld de Londres, October 1955, no. 6, pl. 38.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, The French Impressionists and Some of Their Contemporaries, April 24–May 18, 1963, no. 24, ill. lent by Butler.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Post-Impressionism: Cross-Currents in European Painting, November 17, 1979–March 16, 1980, no. 42, ill., (dated c. 1885), as La mer à l'Estaque, lent by Lord Butler of Saffron Walden. Traveled to: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 25–September 1, 1980.
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 35, ill.
Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, Impressionism for England: Samuel Courtauld as Patron and Collector, June 17–September 25, 1994, no. 7, ill.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 51, ill., fig. 13, p. 71, shown in Aix only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, pl. 88, p. 274, as Vue sur l'Estaque et le château d'If, Private collection, on loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (catalogued, but not shown).
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, La Collection Courtauld: le parti de l'impressionnsime, February 20–June 17, 2019. (Exhibition catalogue: Serres et al 2019), no. 36, ill., as Vue sur l'Estaque et le château d'If, c. 1883-1885, lent by Private collection.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Cézanne: In and Out of Time, November 11, 2020–February 8, 2021, lent by Private Collection.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Paul Cézanne Influence, March 13–October 17, 2021.
Published References
"Von Ausstellungen und Sammlungen." Die Kunst für Alle 21, no. 19 (July 1, 1906), p. 454 mentioned as exhibited in Posen.
Mahen, Jiři. "Impressionisté (Poznámky k XXIII. výstavě 'Mánesa' v Praze) [Impressionists (Notes on the XXIII. Manes' exhibition)]." Lidové noviny (Brno) (October 15, 1907), p. 2, as Vesnice na břehu moře.
Braun, Felix. "Salon Cassirer." National-Zeitung (Berlin), March 4,1911, No. 54, as L'Estaque.
Caffin, Charles Henry. How to Study the Modern Painters. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1914, p. 201, ill.
Cortissoz, Royal. "Paul Cézanne and the Cult for His Paintings." New York Tribune, January 9, 1916.
Wright, Willard Huntington. "Paul Cézanne." International Studio 57, no. 228 (February 1916), p. cxxxi, ill.
"Le courrier de la presse: Cézanne." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 2, no. 2 (January 15, 1921), ill. p. 52, as L'Estaque.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, pl. p. 38, as L'Estaque.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 207, listed.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, pl. [11] hors texte, as L'Estaque.
Maus, Madeleine Octave. Trente Années de lutte pour l'art, 1884–1914. Brussels: Librairie L'Oiseau bleu, 1926, pp. 452–53, ill.
Salmon, André. "Cézanne et son 'Grappin' [Hommage à Paul Cézanne]." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 37 (July 1, 1926), p. 489, ill., as L'Estaque.
Gasquet, Joachim, translated by Elsa Glaser. "Aus dem Leben Cézannes." Kunst und Künstler 27, no. 7 (1929), ill. p. 281.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 406, ill. vol. II, as La mer à l'Estaque.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 107.
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 49.
G. S. Whittet. "A Gallery of Art Dealers, 4. Wildenstein." The Studio Vol. 142, no, 700 (July 1951), p. 21, ill., as L'Estaque.
Blunt, Anthony (preface). Art et Style. 36, Les impressionnistes de la collection Courtauld. Paris, 3rd trimester 1955, ill. in b/w (n.p.), as L'Estaque, c. 1885.
Mathey, François. Les Impressionnistes et leur temps. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1959, p. 125, ill., as Vue de L'Estaque.
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 18.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 181, ill. in color.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, cover.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 290, 291, fig. 147.
Schmitt, Evmarie. Cézanne in der Provence. München and New York: Prestel, 1995, cover (detail), p. 71.
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. 531, ill. vol. 2, as Vue sur l'Estaque et le château d'If.
Kear, Jonathan. "Leaving L'Estaque. Cézanne's Imagery of Provence in the 1880s." Art on the Line, 2003, fig. 6.
Natter, Tobias. Die Galerie Miethke: Eine Kunsthandlung im Zentrum der Moderne. Vienna: Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Wien, 2003. Exhibition catalogue, p. 156, ill.
Smith, Paul. "Cézanne's Late Landscapes, or the Prospect of Death." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 71, fig. 13, as Vue sur l'Estaque et le château d'If.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 180; vol. 2, p. 124, as Vue sur l'Estaque et le château d'If.
Golding, John. "Cézanne, Braque and Pictorial Space." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009, p. 274, pl. 88, as View of L'Estaque and the Château d'If.
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Estaque, Art et Patrimoine, Chronique d'une double histoire. Gémenos: Groupe Horizon, 2013, p. 200, ill.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Kollektionen von Lovis Corinth, Werke von Courbet, […]: 20. Februar bis 14. März 1906." In Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1905-1908 vol. 3, "Den Sinnen ein magischer Rausch". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2013, p. 178, ill.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Kollektionen von Paul Cézanne, Ferdinand Hodler, Leopold Kalckreuth […]: März 1911." In Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1910-1912 vol. 5, "Verheissung und Erfüllung zugleich". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2016, p. 250, ill. listed as probably cat. no. 4 in "1911b Berlin" exhibition.
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Oeuvre de Cezanne à L'Estaque, Huiles – Aquarelles – Dessins, 1864–1885. Marseille: Éditions Gaussen, 2019, fig. 139 (discussion p. 116), as Vue sur l'Estaque et le château d'If (with diagram identifying the motif, fig. 138).
Blanc, Geneviève. Et si L'Estaque m'était contée? [privately published], 2020, p. 191, ill. with a diagram identifying the individual buildings.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 124, ill., as L'Estaque.
Wright, Barnaby. "Samuel Courtauld and Cézanne." In Cézanne, Masterpieces from The Courtauld at KODE Art Museums. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 5.
Record last updated May 25, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Vue sur l'Estaque et le château d'If, 1883–85 (FWN 193)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=521 (accessed on July 3, 2025).
