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© The Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania, USA/ The Bridgeman Art Library
FWN 276
La Plaine de Bellevue; Les Terres rouges
1890–92
Alternate titles: Die rote Erde; Die Rote Erde (La plaine de bellevue); Häuser im Grünen; Hügellandschaft; La plaine de Bellevue; La Plaine de Bellevue; also known as Les Terres rouges; La terre rouge; Landschaft; Les terres rouges; Les Terres-Rouges (environs d'Aix); Rote Erde; Terre rouge; The Bellevue Plain
Rewald (716): 1890–92; Venturi revised: 1886–88; Venturi (450): 1885–87
Oil on canvas
32 x 39 5/8 in. (81.3 x 100.6 cm)

Keywords

Provenance
Théodore Duret, Paris
Paul Cassirer, Berlin (February 24, 1910)
Adele (Frau Georg) Wolde, Bremen (February 24, 1910)
Alex Reid & Lefèvre, London (1927)
Alfred Gold, Berlin (May 7, 1928)
Kurt Mettler, Paris (1930)
Galerie Matthiesen, Berlin (Sept. 1931)
Knoedler Galleries, New York (Sept. 1931)
Barnes Foundation, Merion and Philadelphia (Aug. 1932)
Exhibition History
1912 Cologne
Städtische Ausstellungshalle, Cologne, Internationale Kunstausstellung des Sonderbundes Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, May 25–September 30, 1912, no. 137, pl. 20, as Häuser im Grünen, lent by Wolde.
1914 Bremen
Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany, Internationale Ausstellung, February 1–March 31, 1914, no. 71, as Landschaft, lent by Frau Adele Wolde.
1914 Dresden
Galerie Ernst Arnold, Dresden, Germany, Französische Malerei des XIX. Jahrhunderts, April–May 1914, no. 3, as Hügellandschaft, lent by Frau Adele Wolde.
1918 Bremen
Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany, Ausstellung von Meisterwerken der modernen Malerei aus Bremischen Privatbesitz, May 15–June 12, 1918, no. 3, as Die rote Erde, lent by Adele Wolde.
1921 Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Cézanne-Ausstellung: Cézannes Werke in deutschem Privatbesitz: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, November–December 11, 1921, no. 28, as Rote Erde, lent by Wolde.
1922 Bremen
Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany, [Ausstellung von Franzosen und Neuerwerbungen in der Bremer Kunsthalle], Summer 1922, as Rote Erde.
1927 Glasgow
McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, United Kingdom, A Century of French Painting, May 1927, no. 35, as Les terres rouges.
1927 London
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Manet's masterpiece "Le Vieux musicien" and other important paintings by Cézanne, ..., May 17–?, 1927, as La terre rouge.
1927 Paris
Galerie Barbazanges - Hodebert successeur, Paris, Tableaux des maîtres du XIXe et XXe siècle, December 9–31, 1927, no. 35.
1928 Amsterdam
E.J. van Wisselingh & Co, Amsterdam, Cent Ans de peinture française, April 16–May 5, 1928, Information from Bignou Albums, The Frick Collection, New York.
1931a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, May 18–29, 1931.
1931d New York
Knoedler Galleries, New York, The Landscape in French Painting: XIX–XX Centuries, October–November 1931, no. 24, as Les Terres-Rouges (environs d'Aix).
Published References
Meier-Graefe 1904
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Cézanne und sein Kreis: Paul Cézanne." In Entwicklungsgeschichte der modernen Kunst: vergleichende Betrachtungen der bildenden Künste, als Beitrag zu einer neuen Aesthetik vol. 1. Stuttgart: Jul. Hoffmann, 1904, p. 170, as Les terres rouges.
Duret 1906
Duret, Théodore. Histoire des peintres impressionnistes: Pissarro, Claude Monet, Sisley, Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Cézanne, Guillaumin. Paris: H. Floury, 1906, color plate opposite p. 178.
Meier-Graefe 1908
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Cézanne and his Circle: Paul Cézanne." In Modern Art: Being a Contribution to a New System of Aesthetics. vol. I, translated by Florence Simmonds and George W. Chrystal. London: Heinemann, 1908, p. 270, as Les terres rouges.
Scheffler 1913
Scheffler, Karl. "Die Jüngsten." Kunst und Künstler 11, no. 8 (1913), ill. p. 394.
Waldmann 1918
E.[mil] W.[aldmann]. "Ausstellungen: Bremen." Kunst und Künstler 16, no. 9 (1918), p. 357.
Waldmann 1919
Waldmann, Emil. "Bremer Privatsammlungen." Kunst und Künstler 17, no. 5 (1919), p. 180, as Terre rouge.
Waldmann 1922
Waldmann, Emil. "Paul Cézanne: zur Ausstellung im Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer." Kunst und Künstler 20, no. 4 (1922), ill. p. 133, as Landschaft.
Pfister 1927
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 56, as Häuser im Grünen.
Meier-Graefe 1927a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. LXXX.
Galerie Gold 1930
French impressionists, old masters : 35 paintings selected from exhibitions at Dr. Alfred Gold's Gallery. Berlin: Galerie Gold, 1930, p. [17], ill., as Les terres rouges, 1883.
Gasquet 1930b
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Berlin: B. Cassirer, 1930, ill. opp. p. 112.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 450, ill. vol. II, as La plaine de Bellevue.
Barnes and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 111, p. 229, ill. (analysis pp. 357–60).
De Mazia 1977b
De Mazia, Violette. "E Pluribus Unum, Cont'd: Part IV." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 8, no. 2 (Autumn 1977), pp. 34–35, pl. 115.
De Mazia 1978
De Mazia, Violette. "Transferred Values: Part I – Introduction." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 9, no. 2 (Autumn 1978), p. 6, pl. 80.
De Mazia 1991
De Mazia, Violette. "Form and Matter." Vistas 5, no. 2 (1991), p. 19, pl. 115.
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. 716, ill. vol. 2 and p. 54, ill. vol. 1, as La plaine de Bellevue.
Hansen 2001
Hansen, Dorothee. "'… Die solide Modernität': Bremer Sammler nach der Jahrhundertwende: Heymel, Biermann, Wolde." In Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: französische Kunst in deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, edited by Andrea Pophanken and Felix Billeter. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001, pp. 197-198, listed p. 207.
Hansen 2003
Die Kunsthalle Bremen und ihre Stifter, Johann Georg Wolde und Adele Wolde - ein Bremer Sammlerpaar. Bremen: Bremen Kunsthalle, 2003. Exhibition catalogue, p. 21, no. 1, as Die Rote Erde (La plaine de bellevue).
Ely 2006b
Ely, Bruno. "Gardanne, Montbriand and Bellevue." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 157, fig. 8, as La Plaine de Bellevue; also known as Les Terres rouges.
Dolkart and Lucy 2012
Dolkart, Judith, Martha Lucy. The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2012, p. 43, ill. p. 38, comments by Judith Dolkart.
Schaefer 2012
Schaefer, Barbara, ed. "Sonderbundausstellung 1912 - Rekonstruktion." 1912, Mission Moderne: die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes. Cologne: Wienend, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, no. 137, p. 555.
Coutagne 2015
Coutagne, Denis. "P. Cézanne, sur la colline de la Constance–Valcros." Aix-en-Provence: SPLA Pays d'Aix Territoires, June 2015, listed p. 93.
Mettler 2019
Mettler, Kurt. Tagebücher 1927–1930. Zurich: Limmat Verlag, 2019, p. 983, ill., as La Plaine de Bellevue; Les Terres rouges.
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. 28, pp. 146–57, as The Bellevue Plain (catalogue notes by N. Athanassoglou-Kallmyer).
Notes

The same houses appear in FWN233 and FWN278.

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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Plaine de Bellevue; Les Terres rouges, 1890–92 (FWN 276)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=694 (accessed on March 29, 2024).