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© White House Historical Association (White House Collection)
FWN 248
Maisons au bord de la Marne ( l'Île Machefer à Saint-Maur-des-Fossés)
1888–94
Alternate titles: Etang; House on the Marne; Maison au bord de la Marne; Maison au bord de la Marne, sur l'île Machefer; Sulla rive della Marna
Rewald (622): 1888–90; Venturi revised: c.1888; Machotka et al: 1888–94
Oil on canvas
28 11/16 x 35 13/16 in. (73 x 91 cm)
White House Collection, Washington, D.C.

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Charles A. Loeser, Florence;
Mrs. M. Loeser Calnan, Florence (1928);
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (presented to the government of the United States in memory of Charles A. Loeser);
White House Collection, Washington, D.C.
Exhibition History
1895 Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895, probably shown.
1945 Florence
Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy, La Peinture française à Florence, Summer 1945, no. 127, pl. LXXXIX, as Etang, lent by Loeser.
1946 Rome
Palazzo Venezia, Rome, Tableaux français en Italie, Tableaux italiens en France, Summer 1946, no. 118, ill.
1948 Venice
Biennale Internationale d'Arte, Venice, Italy, Gli Impressionisti alla XXIV Biennale di Venezia, May 29–September 30, 1948, no. 45, ill., as Sulla rive della Marna, c. 1888, lent by Matilde Loeser-Calnan, Florence.
1952 Chicago and traveling
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 58, ill. lent by U.S. Government in memory of Loeser. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
1956 Aix-en-Provence
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 39, ill. lent by National Gallery.
1960–61 Paris
Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, Les Sources du XXe siècle: les arts en Europe de 1884 à 1914, November 4, 1960–January 23, 1961, no. 81, ill., as Maison au bord de la Marne, 1888-90, lent by the US Government, Washington.
2007 Florence
Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy, Cézanne a Firenze: Due collezionisti e la mostra dell'impressionismo del 1910 [In English:Cézanne in Florence: Two Collectors and the 1910 Exhibition of Impressionism], March 2–July 29, 2007, fig. 46, pp. 118–19, ill., 269, as House on the Marne.
Published References
Natanson 1895
Natanson, Thadée. "Paul Cézanne." La Revue Blanche 9, no. 50 (December 1, 1895), p. 498(?)
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, vol. I, p. 348, listed (Collection Loeser).
Argan 1946
Argan, Giulio Carlo. "Mostra di pitture francesi in Italia e italiane in Francia." Emporium 104, no. 621 (September 1946), p. 115, ill.
Beucken 1962
Beucken, Jean de. Cézanne. New York: Viking Press, 1962, p. 89, ill.
West 1973
West, J.B. Upstairs at the White House. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1973, pp. 199, 245, 279–80.
Elgar 1975
Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 62.
Barskaya 1983a
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 135.
Kloss 1992
Kloss, William. Art in the White House: A Nation's Pride. Washington, D.C.: White House Historical Association, 1992, pp. 260–61, 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. 622, ill. vol. 2, as Maison au bord de la Marne.
Bardazzi 2007b
Bardazzi, Francesca, ed. Cézanne in Florence: Two Collectors and the 1910 Exhibition of Impressionism. Translated by John Venerella. Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, p. 269, fig. 46, as House on the Marne.
Coutagne and Hurtu 2011
Coutagne, Denis, and Raymond Hurtu. "Paysages des années 1888–1905." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 139, fig. 622, as Maisons au bord de la Marne ( l'Île Machefer à Saint-Maur-des-Fossés), dated c. 1894?
Société Paul Cézanne 2011
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed., Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 105, ill., as Maison au bord de la Marne, sur l'île Machefer, with old postcard view of motif (p. 105); dated circa 1894.
Coutagne 2011e
Coutagne, Denis. "Il paesaggio in Cézanne." In Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi. Milan: Skira, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 56, fig. 33.
Marchesseau 2017
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 196, ill.
Chédeville and Hurtu 2021
Chédeville, François, and Raymond Hurtu. "Cezanne sur les bords de Marne." Société Cezanne, August 2021, figs. 258, 363 and 373.
Maisons au bord de la Marne ( l'Île Machefer à Saint-Maur-des-Fossés), 1888–94 (FWN 248). 1910 postcard view of house, which no longer exists
1910 postcard view of house, which no longer exists
Photo: Courtesy Alain Mothe

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Record last updated February 20, 2024. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Maisons au bord de la Marne ( l'Île Machefer à Saint-Maur-des-Fossés), 1888–94 (FWN 248)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=604 (accessed on April 25, 2024).