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 195
Le Golfe de Marseille vu de l'Estaque
c.1885
Alternate titles: Der Golf von Marseille, von L'Estaque aus gesehen; Il golfo di Marsiglia visto dall'Estaque; L'Estaque; L'Estaque et le golfe de Marseille; La Baie de Marseille, vue de l'Estaque; Landscape – L'Estaque; Le Golfe de Marseille, vu de L'Estaque; The Gulf of Marseille Seen from L'Estaque; The Gulf of Marseilles Seen from L'Estaque; Vue de l'Estaque
Rewald (625): c.1885; Venturi revised: 1883–85; Venturi (429): 1883–85; Ratcliffe: either November 1883–February 1884 or early 1885
Oil on canvas
28 11/16 x 39 3/8 in. (73 x 100 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The H.O. Havemeyer Collection, March 10–November 2, 1930, no. 5.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 43, as Vue de l'Estaque, lent by Metropolitan Museum, New York.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 49, ill. lent by Metropolitan Museum. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Grand Palais, Paris, Centenaire de l'impressionnisme, September 24–November 24, 1974, no. 8, ill., as La Baie de Marseille, vue de l'Estaque. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Impressionism: A Centenary Exhibition, New York, December 12, 1974–February 10, 1975.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, June 28–September 16, 1984, no. 128, ill., as Le Golfe de Marseille, vu de L'Estaque, 1883-85, lent by Metropolitan Museum. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, October 23, 1984–January 6, 1985; Grand Palais, Paris, February 4–April 22, 1985 (L’Impressionnisme et le paysage français, see 1985a Paris).
Grand Palais, Paris, L’Impressionnisme et le paysage français, February 4–April 22, 1985, no. 128, ill., as Le Golfe de Marseille vu de l'Estaque, 1883-85.
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni, March 7–July 7, 2002, listed p. 150, ill., as Il golfo di Marsiglia visto dall'Estaque, lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 49, ill. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Masterpieces of French Painting from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1800–1920, February 4–May 6, 2007, no. 77, ill.
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Französische Meisterwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts aus dem Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 1–October 7, 2007, listed p. 206, ill., as Der Golf von Marseille, von L'Estaque aus gesehen.
Published References
Kessler, Harry. Deutsche und französische Kunst. Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1912, p. 122.
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Munich: Kurt Wolfe Verlag, 1921, ill. opp. p. 144, as L'Estaque, dated 1883.
"Havemeyer Collection at the Metropolitan Museum." The Art News 28 (March 15, 1930), p. 43, ill., as L'Estaque.
Wehle, Harry B. "The Exhibition of the H.O. Havemeyer Collection." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 25, no. 3 (March 1930), p. 58, mentioned.
"Au Metropolitan Museum: La collection Havemeyer." Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 4 (April 20, 1930), p. 8 (listed), as L'Estaque.
H.O. Havemeyer Collection: Catalogue of Paintings, Prints, Sculpture and Object of Art. Portland, Me.: [privately published], 1931, pp. 56f, as Landscape – L'Estaque.
Venturi, Lionello. "Paul Cézanne." L'Arte 6, nos. 4 and 5 (July 1935), p. 387, fig. 15.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 429, ill. vol. II, as Le Golfe de Marseille, vu de L'Estaque.
Vollard, Ambroise. Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux. Paris: Albin Michel, 1937, ill. opp. p. 20.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 101, listed (analysis pp. 342–43).
Craven, Thomas. A Treasury of Art Masterpieces: From the Renaissance to Present Day. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939, pl. 129.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 35, as L'Estaque et le golfe de Marseille, c. 1883.
Venturi, Lionello. Impressionists and Symbolists: Manet, Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Scribner, 1950, fig. 130.
Venturi, Lionello. Painting and Painters: How to Look at a Picture, From Giotto to Chagall. New York: Scribner's Sons, 1950, fig. 42.
Venturi, Lionello. Four Steps toward Modern Art: Giorgione, Caravaggio, Manet, Cézanne. New York: Columbia University Press, 1956, frontispiece.
H. O. Havemeyer Collection. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1958, p. 12, no. 61 (listed).
Dittmann, Lorenz. "Zur Kunst Cézannes." In Festschrift Kurt Badt. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1961, fig. 6.
Leonhard, Kurt. Paul Cézanne in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Rheinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1966, p. 127, ill.
Hamilton, George Heard. Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1880–1940. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967, pl. 8B.
Martini, Alberto, and Renata Negri. Cézanne e il post-impressionismo. Milan: Fabbri, 1967, pl. II.
Sterling, Charles, and Margaretta M. Salinger. French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. III. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1967, p. 105, ill.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 152.
Salinger, Margaretta. "Windows Open to Nature." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 27, no. 1 (Summer 1968), ill.
Baetjer, Katherine. European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980, p. 26, ill. p. 616.
Hibbard, Howard. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Harper & Row, 1980, fig. 787.
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 20.
Shiff, Richard. Cézanne and the end of Impressionism: a study of the theory, technique, and a critical evaluation of modern art. Chicago; London: The Univesity of Chicago Press, 1984, pp. 116-121, fig. 27, as The Gulf of Marseilles Seen from L'Estaque, c. 1883-85.
Gache-Patin, Sylvie. Le petit journal des grandes expositions. no. 149, L'impressionisme et le paysage français. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1985, p. [4], ill., as Le Golfe de Marseille vu de l'Estaque, 1883-85.
Moffett, Charles S. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1985, pp. 188–89, ill.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 183, ill. in color.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 12, ill.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 125, fig. 69.
Wold, Gretchen. "Appendix." In Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, no. 75, ill.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 225, fig. 1.
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. 625, ill. vol. 2 and p. 56, ill. col. vol. 1, as Le Golfe de Marseille, vu de L'Estaque.
Coutagne, Denis. "Cézanne au fil de l'eau." In Au fil de l'eau. Aix-en-Provence: Ville d'Aix-en-Provence, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 20, as Le Golfe de Marseille vu de l'Estaque.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 115, fig. 3.14, as Le Golfe de Marseille, vu de L'Estaque.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Motive: Versuch einer neuen Ordnung." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 210, ill.
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 78, fig. 56.
Janssen, Hans. "'Wanneer men het inner lijke beeldt…!' Mondriaan en de invloed van Picasso en Cézanne op zijn werk." In Cézanne, Picasso, Mondriaan: in nieuw perspectief. Zwolle: Waanders, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 10, as Le Golfe de Marseille, vu de L'Estaque.
Kienle, Anabelle. "Cézanne and Beckmann: 'A Powerful New Pictorial Architecture.'" In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009, p. 319, ill., p. 454, pl. 164, as The Gulf of Marseille Seen from L'Estaque.
Sachs, Katherine. "Cézanne and Kelly: Painting Form through Color." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 454, pl. 164, as The Gulf of Marseille Seen from L'Estaque.
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Estaque, Art et Patrimoine, Chronique d'une double histoire. Gémenos: Groupe Horizon, 2013, p. 196, ill.
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Oeuvre de Cezanne à L'Estaque, Huiles – Aquarelles – Dessins, 1864–1885. Marseille: Éditions Gaussen, 2019, fig. 130 (discussion pp. 111–13), as Le Golfe de Marseille vu de l'Estaque (with photos of the motif and diagram of the tile factories identified, figs. 129, 131).
Blanc, Geneviève. Et si L'Estaque m'était contée? [privately published], 2020, p. 189, ill. with a diagram identifying the individual buildings.
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 110.
Nagaï, Takanori. Truth in Panting: The Meaning of Cezanne's Practices for Modernizing Society. Tokyo: Sangesha Publishers Inc., 2022, pl. 5.
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Record last updated July 30, 2018. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Golfe de Marseille vu de l'Estaque, c.1885 (FWN 195)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=607 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
