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Catalogue entry

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)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 3392, Maison au milieu d'arbres, 65 x 81 cm (200 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 107, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1880–85
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (BF89)

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
[Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York]
Dr. Albert C. Barnes, Merion (June 10, 1913);
Barnes Foundation, Merion and Philadelphia
Exhibition History
1993–95 Washington, D.C. and traveling
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 1914
Pène du Bois, Guy. "A Modern American Collection." Arts and Decoration 4, no. 8 (June 1914), p. 305, ill.
Barnes 1915
Barnes, Albert C. "How to Judge a Painting." Arts and Decoration 5, no. 6 (April 1915), p. 217, ill.
Mullen 1923
Mullen, Mary. An Approach to Art. Merion, PA: The Barnes Foundation Press, 1923, p. 31.
Barnes 1925b
Barnes, Albert C. The Art in Painting. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1925, p. 463, ill.
Barnes 1925c
Barnes, Albert C. "Cézanne." Journal of the Barnes Foundation 1, no. 3 (October 1925), p. 18, ill.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 646, ill. vol. II, as Maison et arbres.
Barnes and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 147, ill. p. 248.
De Mazia 1973a
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 1976a
De Mazia, Violette. "E Pluribus Unum." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 7, no. 1 (Spring 1976), p. 23, pl. 88.
Rishel 1983
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 1989
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 279, 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. 629, ill. vol. 2, as Maison et arbres.
Machotka 2008
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, Ireson and Patry 2021
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 April 24, 2024).