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 255
Maison et arbres
1889–90
Alternate title: House and Trees
Rewald (629): 1888–90; Venturi revised: 1896–98; Venturi (646): 1890–94
Oil on canvas
25 3/4 x 32 in. (65.4 x 81.3 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3688, paysage à l'huile --au milieu d'arbres presque à droite une grosse maison., 65 x 81 cm (175 frs)
Provenance
Exhibition History
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation, May 2–August 15, 1993, no number, pp. 132–33, ill. Traveled to: Musèe d'Orsay, Paris, November 6, 1993–January 2, 1994; National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, January 21–April 3, 1994; Kimbell Art Museum, Forth Worth, Texas, April 24–August 16, 1994; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, September 17–December 31, 1994; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, January 29–April 1995; Haus der Kunst, Munich, June 23–October 22, 1995.
Published References
Pène du Bois, Guy. "A Modern American Collection." Arts and Decoration 4, no. 8 (June 1914), p. 305, ill.
Barnes, Albert C. "How to Judge a Painting." Arts and Decoration 5, no. 6 (April 1915), p. 217, ill.
Barnes, Albert C. "Cézanne." Journal of the Barnes Foundation 1, no. 3 (October 1925), p. 18, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 646, ill. vol. II, as Maison et arbres.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 147, ill. p. 248.
De Mazia, Violette. "Creative Distortion: The Case of the Levitated Pear." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 4, no. 1 (Spring 1973), p. 9n, pl. 9.
De Mazia, Violette. "E Pluribus Unum." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 7, no. 1 (Spring 1976), p. 23, pl. 88.
Rishel, Joseph J. Cézanne in Philadelphia Collections. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1983. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 38–39, suggests this work might ha e been painted in the north.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 279, ill.
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. 629, ill. vol. 2, as Maison et arbres.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 237; vol. 2, p. 159, as Maison et arbres.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, no. 26, pp. 146–57, as House and Trees (catalogue notes by N. Athanassoglou-Kallmyer).
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Record last updated March 11, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Maison et arbres, 1889–90 (FWN 255)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=611 (accessed on July 15, 2025).
