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Catalogue entry

FWN 283
Paysage au bord de l'eau à Médan
c.1885–90
Alternate titles: Paysage au bord de l'eau; Paysage des bords de la Marne; Riverbank; Seelandschaft; Wasserlandschaft
Rewald (722): 1895–98; Venturi (634): 1888–89
Oil on canvas
28 11/16 x 36 3/16 in. (73 x 92 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3468, huile; bord d'eau au premier plan; derrière q.q. indications de maisons; et des arbres très esquissées, 73 x 92 cm (200 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 448, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Alfort 1893–94
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection)

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Lausanne (June 6, 1914)
Galerie Thannhauser, Lucerne (July 31, 1926)
D. Pagenstecher, Wiesbaden (Aug. 4, 1927)
Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich (1951)
Carlo Frua-de-Angeli, Milan (1954)
Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich (1964)
[Knoedler Galleries, New York]
Ailsa Mellon Bruce, New York (June 13, 1964);
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1970)
Exhibition History
1927c Berlin
Galerie Thannhauser, Vereinshaus der Berliner Künstler, Berlin, Erste Sonderausstellung in Berlin, January 9–mid-February, 1927, no. 21, ill., as Wasserlandschaft, lent by Thannhauser.
1956 The Hague
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 36, ill. lent by Private collection.
1956 Zurich
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Paul Cézanne, August 22–October 7, 1956, no. 61.
1956 Munich
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 43, ill. lent by Private collection.
1961 Vienna
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 32.
1966 Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, March 18–May 1, 1966, no. 71.
2000 Aix-en-Provence
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Au fil de l'eau: Cézanne, June 17–September 15, 2000, no. 15, lent by National Gallery of Art.
Published References
Meier-Graefe 1918a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 137.
Popp 1919
Popp, Anny E. "Cézanne, Elemente seines Stiles, anlässlich einer Kritik erortert." Die bildenden Künste: Wiener Monatshefte (Vienna) II (1919), ill. p. 189, as Seelandschaft, Reber collection, Munich.
Meier-Graefe 1922
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 168.
Pfister 1927
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 83, as Seelandschaft, c. 1885.
Meier-Graefe 1927b
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Die Franzosen in Berlin." Der Cicerone 19, no. 2 (January 1927), ill. p. 53, as Wasserlandschaft.
D'Ors 1930
Ors, Eugenio d.' Paul Cézanne. Paris: Editions des Chroniques du Jour, 1930, pl. 16.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 634, ill. vol. II, as Paysage au bord de l'eau.
Goldwater 1966
Goldwater, Robert J. "The Glory That Was France." Art News 65, no. 1 (March 1966), p. 48, ill.
National Gallery of Art 1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1975, no. 2393, p. 63, ill., as Riverbank.
Bessonova and Williams 1986
Bessonova, Marina, and William Williams. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Hermitage, Leningrad, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York: Park Lane, 1986, p. 175, 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. 722, ill. vol. 2, as Paysage au bord de l'eau.
Kropmanns and Fleckner 2001
Kropmanns, Peter, and Uwe Fleckner. "Von kontinentaler Bedeutung: Gottlieb Friedrich Reber und seine Sammlungen." 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, listed p. 387.
Société Paul Cézanne 2011
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed., Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 106, ill., as Paysage des bords de la Marne, dated circa 1894.
Coutagne 2011a
Coutagne, Denis. "Les 'Paris' de Cézanne." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 21, fig. 1, as Paysage au bord de l'eau, size listed erroneously as 79 x 92 cm.
Geskó 2017
Geskó, Judit. "Cézanne: Past / Present / Future." In Cézanne and the past : tradition and creativity [international symposium, Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, 28 January 2013]. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2017, p. 24, suggests that the work was painted at Médan, probably in the second half of the 1880s.
Chédeville and Hurtu 2021
Chédeville, François, and Raymond Hurtu. "Cezanne sur les bords de Marne." Société Cezanne, August 2021, fig. 274, 1892–94, suggested new title: Le Mur d'enceinte du Buisson a Créteil.
Notes

According to Gesko (2017, p. 24), Cezanne set his easel on the Ile de Platais located between two branches of the River Seine (Bras to Médan and the Bras de Moteux). The little house seen in the painting was built by Zola for picnics and bathing; it does not exist today.

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Record last updated April 12, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Paysage au bord de l'eau à Médan, c.1885–90 (FWN 283)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=700 (accessed on April 19, 2024).