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Catalogue entry

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)
Vollard archives: photo no. 474, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Laroche Guyon 1885

Keywords

Provenance
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Cagnes
Maurice Renou, Paris
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts (1932)
Exhibition History
1933b Chicago
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.
1934 Pittsfield
Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Single Picture Exhibition, 1934.
1934 Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November–December 1934, no. 29, ill., (dated 1888–90), as The Road that turns, lent by Smith College.
1936 Toledo
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.
1937 San Francisco
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.
1942d New York
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.
1946 Northampton
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, Exhibition in Honor of Alfred Vance Churchill, November 6–24, 1946, ill.
1947b New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 30, lent by Smith College.
1948 Williamstown
Lawrence Art Gallery, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1948.
1949a Montreal
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Art from Montreal Collections, February 10–27, 1949, no. 7.
1953b New York
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Paintings and Drawings from the Smith College Collection, March 30–April 11, 1953, no. 3 (?)
1954 Boston
Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, Forty-Four Major Works from the Smith College Collection, 1954.
1955 Waterville
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, Visual Material for Creative Thinking, 1955.
1957 Milwaukee
Milwaukee Art Institute, Milwaukee, Inaugural Exhibition, September 12–October 20, 1957, no. 71, ill.
1959e New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 26, ill. lent by Smith College.
1993 Tübingen
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 30, ill.
Published References
Churchill 1932
Churchill, Alfred Vance. "On Cézanne." Parnassus 4, no. 5 (October 1932), p. 20, ill.
Venturi 1936b
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 1936e
Rewald, John. Cézanne et Zola. Paris: Editions A. Sedrowski, 1936, fig. 52 (with photograph of motif).
Rewald 1937a
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 1938
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 133, fig. 22.
G.W. 1939
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 1939c
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 54 (with photograph of motif).
Venturi 1942
Venturi, Lionello. "Cézanne: Fighter for Freedom." Art News 41, no. 13 (November 15, 1942), p. 17, ill (with photograph of motif).
Loran 1943
Loran, Erle. Cézanne's Composition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943, p. 47, pl. II (with photograph of the motif).
Rewald 1944
Rewald, John. "As Cézanne Recreated Nature." Art News 43, no. 1 (February 15, 1944), p. 12, ill. (with photograph of motif).
Rewald 1948b
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, fig. 74 (with photograph of motif).
Rewald 1950a
Rewald, John. Cézanne. London: Phoenix House, 1950, fig. 57.
Friedenwald 1955
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 1956
Hamilton, George Heard. "Cézanne, Bergson and the Image of Time." College Art Journal 16, no. 1 (Fall 1956), p. 3, ill.
Gray 1959
Gray, Christopher. "Cézanne's Use of Perspective." College Art Journal 19, no. 1 (Fall 1959), pp. 54–64, ill.
Reidemeister 1963
Reidemeister, Leopold. Auf den Spuren der Maler der Ile de France. Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 1963, p. 160, ill.
Venturi 1978
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 83, ill.
Heelan 1983
Heelan, Patrick A. Space-Perception and the Philosophy of Science. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983, fig. 2.2
White 1984
White, Barbara Ehrlich. Renoir: His Life, Art and Letters. New York: Abrams, 1984, p. 157, ill.
Lloyd 1985
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 1988
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 125, ill. in color.
Machotka 1996
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 1996
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 2008
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 2008
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 72, fig. 52.
Mothe 2011
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 2011
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 2011
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 2014
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).
Cezanne 2021
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 55.
La Route tournante à La Roche-Guyon, 1885 (FWN 204)
Photo: Courtesy Alain Mothe
La Route tournante à La Roche-Guyon, 1885 (FWN 204). The winding road above La Roche-Guyon.
John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The winding road above La Roche-Guyon. John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
La Route tournante à La Roche-Guyon, 1885 (FWN 204). Site identified by John Rewald.
Site identified by John Rewald.
Photo: Pavel Machotka, 1977; © Courtesy Pavel Machotka Archive
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 March 28, 2024).