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 268
Maison de Bellevue et pigeonnier
1890–92
Alternate titles: Baumwiese mit Durchblick auf Häuser am Hugel; Haus auf bewaldeter Anhöhe; Maison de Bellevue; Maisons de Bellevue et pigeonnier
Rewald (690): 1890–92; Venturi revised: 1890–94; Cézanne fils: 1880; Venturi (651): 1888–92
Oil on canvas
26 x 31 7/8 in. (66 x 81 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Museum Folkwang, Hagen, Germany, Moderne Kunst: Plastik, Malerei, Graphik, [July] 1912, no. 115.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 85, as Maison de Bellevue, lent by Folkwang Museum, Essen.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Impressionnistes et romantiques français dans les musées allemands, 1951, no. 6, pl. 6, lent by Museum Folkwang, Essen.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 43, lent by Folkwang, Essen.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 44, ill. lent by Folkwang.
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, (Kunsthaus Lempertz), Cologne, Cézanne, Ausstellung zum Gedenken an sein 50. Todesjahr, December 1956–January 1957, no. 21, ill. lent by Folkwang.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 57, ill. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Published References
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. Cézanne. With contributions by O. Mirbeau, T. Duret, L. Werth, et al. Paris: Editions Hollande, 1914, pl. LIII.
Waldmann, Emil. "Das Folkwangmuseum." Kunst und Künstler 12, no. 5 (1914), p. 258, ill. p. 255.
Deri, Max. Die Malerei im XIX. Jahrhundert: entwicklungsgeschichtliche Darstellung auf psychologischer Grundlage. Berlin: Paul Cassirer, 1919, pp. 193–95, pl. 37.
Servaes, Franz. "Moderne Bilder im Hagener Folkwang-Museum." Der Cicerone 12, no. 3 (1920), pp. 99-100.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 208, listed.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 63, as Haus auf bewaldeter Anhöhe.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 651, ill. vol. II, as Maisons de Bellevue et pigeonnier.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 70.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 126, p. 280, ill. (analysis p. 347).
Held, Jutta. Katalog der Gemälde des 19. Jahrhunderts. Essen: Museum Folkwang Essen, 1971, no. 26, ill.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 310, fig. 1.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 91.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 78, fig. 47, with photograph of motif, fig. 46, as Maison de Bellevue et pigeonnier.
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. 690, ill. vol. 2, as Maison de Bellevue et pigeonnier.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 67, ill. with photos of motif (c. 1935 and c. 1976), p. 66, as Maison de Bellevue et pigeonnier.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Sammler. Von Zola bis Annenberg." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel,
Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 181, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 131, fig. 44d, with color photo of motif, p. 130, fig. 44b, as Maison de Bellevue et pigeonnier.
Coutagne, Denis. "P. Cézanne, sur la colline de la Constance–Valcros." Aix-en-Provence: SPLA Pays d'Aix Territoires, June 2015, ill. p. 71.
Bonfort, ed., Didier. Dans les pas de P. Cezanne, Valcros - Bellevue - Montbriand. Didier Bonfort, ed.. Aix-en-provence: Sauvegarde des paysages de Cezanne, February 2016, p. 23, ill., as Maison de Bellevue et pigeonnier, with photo of motif.
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 106.
Record last updated November 3, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Maison de Bellevue et pigeonnier, 1890–92 (FWN 268)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=668 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
