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 277
La Route en Provence
1890–92
Alternate titles: A Rocky Landscape in Provence ('Aix: Paysage Rocheux'); Aix : Paysage Rocheux; Hillside in Provence; Krajina; Krajina u Aix; Landschaft bei Aix; Montagnes en Provence; Paisatge rocós; Paysage rocheux; Rocky Landscape; Skalnatá krajina u Aix
Rewald (718): 1890–92; Venturi revised: 1883–85; Venturi (491): 1886–90; Cooper: c.1885–87, probably 1886 (Burlington); Gowing: c.1887 (Edinburgh); Reff: c.1887 (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 31 7/8 in. (65 x 81 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3752, huile. paysage. un amas de rochers au milieu desquels se trouvent q.q. arbres -- ciel gris, 65 x 81 cm (200 frs)
Provenance
Exhibition History
S.V.U. Mánes, Municipal House, Prague, Francouzské umění XIX. a XX. století [French Art of the 19th–20th Centuries], May 26–June 1923, no. 147, as Skalnatá krajina u Aix, lent by Halvorsen.
S.V.U. Mánes, Pavillon Mánes, Prague, Francouzští mistři [French Masters], December 1923, no. 31, as Krajina u Aix (Paysage à Aix).
Leicester Galleries, London, Paintings and Drawings by Paul Cézanne, June–July 1925, no. 11, as Aix : Paysage Rocheux, [lent by Halvorsen?]
National Gallery (Tate Gallery), Millbank, London, Modern Foreign School, June 26–October 10, 1926, no. 4136, as Aix : Paysage Rocheux, Presented by the Trustees of the Courtauld Fund, 1926.
National Gallery, London, Nineteenth Century French Painting, December 11, 1942–January 17, 1943, no. 36, as Aix : Paysage Rocheux, 1886, lent by Tate.
Tate Gallery, London, Samuel Courtauld: Memorial Exhibition, May–June 1948, no. 9, ill., as A Rocky Landscape in Provence ('Aix: Paysage Rocheux'), c. 1885-87.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 38, pl. V, as Aix : Paysage Rocheux, c. 1887, lent by the Tate Gallery. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Impressionnistes de la Collection Courtauld de Londres, October 1955, no. 7, pl. 39.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 46, ill.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Cézanne i blickpunkten, October 17, 1997–January 11, 1998, no. 15, ill., pp. 60–61 (dated 1886–92).
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 63, ill. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
National Gallery, London, Cézanne in Britain, October 4, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 29, ill., as Hillside in Provence (size: 63.5 x 79.4 cm).
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 11, ill.
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 41, ill. lent by National Gallery, London.
Published References
Anonymous. "Výtvarné uměni: Ještě francouzské uměni [Fine Art: Regarding French Art]." Venkov: orgán České strany agrární (Prague) (December 30, 1923), p. 4, as Krajina u Aix.
jč. "Kulturní kronika: Francouzští mistři [Cultural Chronicle: French Masters]." Lidové noviny (Brno) (December 13, 1923), p. 7, as Krajina.
"Exhibition of Cézanne Paintings." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 47, no. 268 (July 1925), p. 57, fig. B p. [56], as Rocky Landscape.
Tatlock, R.R. "The Courtauld Trust." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 48, no. 275 (February, 1926), p. 58, as Paysage rocheux.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, p. 63, fig. 28, pl. XIX.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Die Franzosen in der Tate Gallery." Der Cicerone 20, no. 12 (1928), p. 394, ill. p. 397, as Landschaft bei Aix.
Tietze, Hans. "Französische Bilder des XIX. Jahrhunderts in der Londoner Nationalgalerie." Kunst und Künstler 26, no. 2 (1928), p. 65, ill. p. 60.
Gual, Enric F. "A París han exagerat." Mirador (Barcelona), August 13, 1936, ill. p. 7, as Paisatge rocós.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 491. ill. vol. II, as Montagnes en Provence.
Rothenstein, John. Modern Foreign Pictures in the Tate Gallery. London: Trustees of the Tate Gallery, 1949, pl. 63.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 63, pl. XIX fig. 28, as Rocky Landscape.
Alley, Ronald. The Foreign Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. London: Tate Gallery, 1959, p. 33, pl. 22e, as Aix : Paysage Rocheux.
Brown, Oliver. The Memoirs of Oliver Brown. London: Evelyn, Adams & Mackay, 1968, pp. 92–93.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 24, with comments.
Stokes, Adrian. "Cézanne." In The Critical Writings of Adrian Stokes, vol. 2, 1937–58. London: Thames & Hudson, 1978, fig. 98, commentary pp. 268–69.
Baker, Christopher, and Tom Henry. The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue. London: National Gallery Publications, 1995, p. 108, ill., as Hillside in Provence, probably c. 1886-90.
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. 718, ill. vol. 2, as La Route en Provence.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 239; vol. 2, p. 161, as La Route en Provence.
Reissner, Elisabeth. "Ways of Making: Practice and Innovation in Cézanne's Paintings in the National Gallery." National Gallery Technical Bulletin vol. 29 (2008), p. 6, pl. 6.
Machotka, Pavel. "Des paysages du nord aux premiers pas du cubisme." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 194, fig. 109, as La Route en Provence.
Callen, Anthea. The Work of Art: Plein-air Painting and Artistic Identiy in the Nineteenth-century France. London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2015, p. 258, as Hillside in Provence, 1886.
Serres, Karen (ed.). The Courtauld Collection, A Vision of Impressionism. Paris and London: Fondation Louis Vuitton and Paul Holberton Publishing, 2019. Exhibition catalogue (2019 Paris), p. 35, fig. 28.
Elderfield John, et al. Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Exhibition catalogue, p. 148, fig. 93, as Hillside in Provence.
Wright, Barnaby. "Samuel Courtauld and Cézanne." In Cézanne, Masterpieces from The Courtauld at KODE Art Museums. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 6.
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 3.
Record last updated March 21, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Route en Provence, 1890–92 (FWN 277)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=696 (accessed on October 9, 2024).
