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 204
La Route tournante à La Roche-Guyon
1885
Alternate titles: La Route tournante; Route tournante à La Roche-Guyon; The Road that turns; Vue de la Roche-Guyon
Rewald (539): 1885; Venturi revised: 1885; Venturi (441): 1885; Gowing: 1885
Oil on canvas
24 1/2 x 29 11/16 in. (62.2 x 75.5 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 316, ill., (dated 1888–90), lent by Smith College.
Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Single Picture Exhibition, 1934.
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November 10–December 10, 1934, no. 29, ill., (dated 1888–90), as The Road that turns, lent by Smith College.
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Cézanne and Gauguin, November 1–December 13, 1936, no. 24, ill., as La Route tournante, lent by Smith College.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 17, ill. lent by Smith College.
Paul Rosenberg, New York, A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Cézanne (1839-1906) for the Benefit of Fighting France, November 19–December 19, 1942, no. 6, ill. lent by Smith College.
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, Exhibition in Honor of Alfred Vance Churchill, November 6–24, 1946, ill.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 30, lent by Smith College.
Lawrence Art Gallery, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1948.
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Art from Montreal Collections, February 10–27, 1949, no. 7.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Paintings and Drawings from the Smith College Collection, March 30–April 11, 1953, no. 3 (?)
Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, Forty-Four Major Works from the Smith College Collection, 1954.
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, Visual Material for Creative Thinking, 1955.
Milwaukee Art Institute, Milwaukee, Inaugural Exhibition, September 12–October 20, 1957, no. 71, ill.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 26, ill. lent by Smith College.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 30, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 441, ill. vol. II, as Route tournante à La Roche-Guyon.
Rewald, John. Cézanne et Zola. Paris: Editions A. Sedrowski, 1936, fig. 52 (with photograph of motif).
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), pp. 54 and 56, as Vue de la Roche-Guyon.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 133, fig. 22.
G.[eorges] W.[ildenstein]. "Bibliographie: Smith College Museum of Art. Catalogue." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 21, periode 6 (February 1939), p. 128, as La Route tournante.
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 54 (with photograph of motif).
Venturi, Lionello. "Cézanne: Fighter for Freedom." Art News 41, no. 13 (November 15, 1942), p. 17, ill (with photograph of motif).
Loran, Erle. Cézanne's Composition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943, p. 47, pl. II (with photograph of the motif).
Rewald, John. "As Cézanne Recreated Nature." Art News 43, no. 1 (February 15, 1944), p. 12, ill. (with photograph of motif).
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, fig. 74 (with photograph of motif).
Friedenwald, Jonas S. "Knowledge of Space Perception and the Portrayal of Depth in Painting." College Art Journal 15, no. 2 (Winter 1955), p. 107, figs. 4–5.
Hamilton, George Heard. "Cézanne, Bergson and the Image of Time." College Art Journal 16, no. 1 (Fall 1956), p. 3, ill.
Gray, Christopher. "Cézanne's Use of Perspective." College Art Journal 19, no. 1 (Fall 1959), pp. 54–64, ill.
Reidemeister, Leopold. Auf den Spuren der Maler der Ile de France. Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 1963, p. 160, ill.
Heelan, Patrick A. Space-Perception and the Philosophy of Science. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983, fig. 2.2
White, Barbara Ehrlich. Renoir: His Life, Art and Letters. New York: Abrams, 1984, p. 157, ill.
Lloyd, Christopher. "Reflections on La Roche-Guyon and the Impressionists." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 105, periode 6 (January 1985), pp. 39-40, fig. 9, as La Route tournante à La Roche-Guyon, c. 1885.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 125, ill. in color.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 63, fig. 33, with photographs of motif, figs. 31 and 32; also p. 23, fig. 33 (detail), with photograph of motif (detail), as Route tournante à La Roche-Guyon.
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. 539, ill. vol. 2, as La Route tournante à La Roche-Guyon.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 217; vol. 2, p. 150, as La Route tournante à La Roche-Guyon.
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 72, fig. 52.
Mothe, Alain. Ce que voyait Cézanne: Les paysages impressionnistes à la lumière des cartes postales. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011, pp. 80–81, ill. with old postcard view of village taken from the route de Gasny.
Novotny, Fritz. Paul Cézanne: Gesammelte Schriften zu seinem Werk und Materialien aus dem Nachlaß. Introduction by Gabriel Ramin Schor (editor), Agnes Blaha (assistance). Vienna: Klever, 2011, fig. 22.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed., Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 81, ill., as La Route tournante à La Roche-Guyon, photo of motif by Machotka (p. 80).
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 109, fig. 34c, with black and white photo of motif, fig. 34b, and with color photo of motif, p. 106, fig. 34a, as La Route tournante à La Roche-Guyon (details p. 44).
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 55.
Record last updated October 24, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Route tournante à La Roche-Guyon, 1885 (FWN 204)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=526 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
