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Catalogue entry

FWN 256
Sous-bois
c.1888
Alternate titles: Landscape; Paesaggio provenzale, sottobosco; Paysage; Paysage de Provence; Paysage provençal; Paysage provençal, sous-bois; Provençal Landscape; Sous-bois provençal
Rewald (613): c.1888; Venturi revised: 1880–81; Venturi (446): 1885–86; Vollard: c.1888; Gowing: c.1889 (Edinburgh); Ratcliffe: possibly 1889
Oil on canvas
31 1/2 x 24 3/16 in. (80 x 61.5 cm)
31 15/16 x 25 11/16 in. (81 x 65.2 cm) (Davies Coll., 2009)

Keywords

Provenance
Baron Denys Cochin, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (January 4, 1917)
Gwendoline E. Davies, Newton, Great Britain (December 26, 1917);
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff (1952)
Exhibition History
1910a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910, no. 15, as Paysage, lent by Cochin.
1918–20 Bath
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, United Kingdom, Modern Art, April 1918–September 1920, ill., Pl. I-A, lent by Gwendoline Davies.
1922 London
Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, Pictures, Drawings, and Sculptures of the French School of the Last 100 Years, Spring 1922, no. 44, as Landscape, lent by G. Davies.
1925b London
Leicester Galleries, London, Paintings and Drawings by Paul Cézanne, June–July 1925, no. 9, as Paysage provençal, lent by Miss Davies.
1954 Edinburgh and traveling
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 46, as Sous-bois provençal, c. 1889, lent by the National Museum of Wales. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
1954 Oslo
Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway, Paul Cezanne: 28 malerier, November 13–December 1, 1954, no. 18, as Sous-bois provençal, c. 1889, lent by National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.
1956 London
Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, Loan exhibition: Some pictures from the National Museum of Wales exhibited in aid of the Friends of the National Museum of Wales, January 3–February 4, 1956, no. 17.
1979a Paris
Musée Marmottan, Paris, Chefs-d'oeuvre impressionnistes du Musée National du Pays de Galle, May–June 1979, no. 21, ill.
1979–179 London
Wildenstein, London, Paintings from the Davies Collection, March 1–30, 1979, no. 31, ill., as Paysage provençal, sous-bois.
2003–04 Treviso
Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso, Italy, L'Oro e l'azzurro: I colori del Sud da Cézanne a Bonnard, October 10, 2003–March 7, 2004, no. 32, ill., as Paesaggio provenzale, sottobosco, 1888.
2009–10 Columbia, S.C. and traveling
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina, Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum of Wales, March 6–June 7, 2009, no. 8, ill., (dated c. 1887), as Provençal Landscape. Traveled to: Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, June 25–September 20, 2009; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 8, 2009–January 3, 2010; Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, Albuquerque, New Mexico, May 16–August 8, 2010.
Published References
Constable 1920
Constable, W.G. "Modern Art at the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 36, no. 203 (February 1920), fig. A pl. I, as Paysage.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 446, ill. vol. II, as Sous-bois provençal.
Ingamells 1967
Ingamells, John. The Davies Collection of French Art. Cardiff: National Museum of Wales, 1967, p. 35, ill.
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. 613, ill. vol. 2, as Sous-bois.
Robbins 2006b
Robbins, Anne. Cézanne in Britain. London: National Gallery, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 93, as Sous-bois, listed.
Chédeville 2014e
Chédeville, François. "Le Viaduc dans la plaine de l'Arc IV." Société Paul Cézanne (October 15, 2014).
Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 117, ill., as Paysage de Provence.
Record last updated December 16, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Sous-bois, c.1888 (FWN 256)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=595 (accessed on March 29, 2024).