Catalogue entry

FWN 288

Le Pont sur la Marne à Créteil

c.1894

Alternate titles: Am Marneufer (Le pont de Créteil); Bord de la Marne; Brücke bei Puteaux; De oevers van de Marne; Die Brücke über die Marne in Créteil; Die Ufer der Marne; Flußlandschaft mit Brücke; Flusslandschaft; Gezicht op de Marne; La Marne; Landscape; Le pont; Le pont (la Marne à Créteil); Le Pont de Créteil; Le pont de Melun; Le pont sur la Marne, à Créteil; Les Bords de la Marne; Marnebrücke; Marnes Stränder; Pont de Puteaux; The Bridge at Melun

Rewald (729): c.1894; Venturi revised: c.1888; Cézanne fils: Alfort 1888; Venturi (631): c.1888; Vollard: 1888

Oil on canvas

28 x 35 3/8 in. (71 x 90 cm)

Vollard A stockbook: no. 3469, huile; les bords de la Marne; au 1r plan de l'eau où se reflètent les paysages, arbres, pont, maisons; ciel blanc et bleu, 73 x 92 cm (350 frs)

Vollard X stockbook: no. 5041, Le Pont de chez Bernheim

Vollard archives: photo no. 396, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Marne 1888

Pushkin Museum, Moscow

Keywords

Locales
Northern France:
- Créteil »
- Marne »
Landscape
Natural motifs:
- river / rivière »
- water's edge / bord de l'eau »
Landscape
Man-made motifs:
- bridge / pont »
- house(s) / maison(s) »

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris

Auguste Pellerin, Paris (January 1900)

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (September 8, 1911)

Ambroise Vollard, Paris (September 8, 1911)

Ivan Morosov, Moscow (Jan. 22, 1912);

First Museum of Modern Western Painting, Moscow (1918);

State Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow (1923);

Pushkin Museum, Moscow (1948)

Exhibition History

1895 Paris

Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895.

1912 St. Petersburg

Institut français, Mansion of Yusupova (42 Liteiny Avenue), St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, [Exposition centennale de l'art français, 1812-1912], opening January 15, ?

1926 Moscow

Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, 1926, no. 11.

1936c Paris

Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 74, pl. XXVI, as Le Pont de Créteil, lent by Moscow.

1937a Paris

Palais National des Arts, Paris, Chefs-d'oeuvres de l'art français [World's Fair], June–October 1937, no. 254, as Le Pont de Créteil, lent by Moscow.

1939 Moscow

Moscow, French Landscape of the Nineteeth and Twentieth Century, 1939, p. 46.

1955 Moscow

Pushkin Museum, Moscow, French Art from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century, 1955, p. 56.

1956a Leningrad

Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, Paul Cézanne: 50 Years since His Death, 1956, no. 13, ill.

1956b Leningrad

Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, French Art from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Century, 1956, p. 55.

1960 Moscow

Pushkin Museum, Moscow, French Art of the Second Half of the 19th Century: From the Stocks of Soviet Art Museums, 1960, no number, p. 34.

1966 The Hague and traveling

Mauritshuis, The Hague, the Netherlands, Vijf eeuwen schilderkunst: in het licht van Vermeer, June 25–September 5, 1966, no. 48, ill., as Gezicht op de Marne, c. 1888, lent by Baroness M. de Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Paris. Traveled to: Orangerie, Paris, September 24–November 28, 1966 (Cinq siècles de peinture: dans la lumière de Vermeer).

1966b Paris

Orangerie, Paris, Cinq siècles de peinture: dans la lumière de Vermeer, September 24–November 28, 1966, no. 50, ill., as Le Pont sur la Marne à Créteil, c. 1888, lent by Baroness M. de Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Paris.

1974 Leningrad

Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, [Impressionist paintings on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the first exhibition in 1874], 1974, no. 50, ill. 1888.

1985 Venice and traveling

Museo Correr alla Napoleonica, Venice, Italy, Cézanne, Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso: 42 capolavori dai musei sovietici., February 23–April 14, 1985, no. 3. Traveled to: Musei Capitolini, Rome, April 23–June 10, 1985.

1993–94 Essen and traveling

Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Morozov and Shchukin: The Russian Collectors, June 25–October 31, 1993, no. 22, ill. Traveled to: Pushkin Museum, Moscow, November 30, 1993–January 30, 1994; Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, February 16–April 16, 1994.

1998 St. Petersburg and traveling

State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 35, ill. Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).

2004–05 Essen

Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Cézanne: Aufbruch in die Moderne, September 18, 2004–January 16, 2005, listed p. 232, ill. p. 151, as Le Pont sur la Marne à Créteil.

2017 Martigny

Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 44, ill. lent by Pushkin Museum.

2019 St. Petersburg

State Hermitage Museum, Mansion of Yusupova (42 Liteiny Avenue), St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, The Morosov Brothers: Great Russian Collectors, June 20–October 6, 2019, no. 29.

2021–22 Paris

Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, La collection Morozov: icônes de l'art moderne, September 22, 2021–February 22, 2022, p. 490, ill. p. 272, as Le Pont sur la Marne à Créteil.

Published References

Natanson 1895

Natanson, Thadée. "Paul Cézanne." La Revue Blanche 9, no. 50 (December 1, 1895), p. 498.

Kessler 1908

Kessler, Harry. Impressionisten. Munich: F. Bruckmann, 1908, fig. 51.

Kozmutza 1908

Kozmutza, Ottilie de. "The Art of Paul Cézanne." Burr-McIntosh Monthly 15, no. 60 (March 1908), ill., as Landscape.

Tugendhold 1911

Tugendhold, Yakov. "Landscape in French Painting." Apollon, no. 7 (1911), ill. opp. p. 10.

Makovsky 1912

Makovsky, Serguei. "[French artists in I. Morosov's collection, Moscow]." Apollon (St. Petersburg) 3, nos. 3–4 (March 1912), listed p. 23, as Le pont.

Royère 1912

Royère, Jean. "Paul Cézanne, Erinnerungen." Kunst und Künstler 10, no. 10 (1912), ill. p. 480, as Flusslandschaft.

Thiis 1912

Thiis, Jens. Kunst og Kultur. Kristiania: Mittet, 1912, ill.

Borgmeyer 1913

Borgmeyer, Charles Louis. The Master Impressionists. Chicago: The Fine Arts Press, 1913, p. 119, ill., as Le pont de Melun, Collection Vollard.

Burger 1913

Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1913, pl. 126, as Brücke bei Puteaux.

Vollard 1914

Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 25, as Les Bords de la Marne.

Stuart 1917

Stuart, Evelyn Marie. "Cézanne and His Place in Impressionism." Fine Arts Journal 35, no. 5 (May 1917), p. 333, ill., as The Bridge at Melun, "Collection Vollard".

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. 177.

Burger 1919

Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1919, p. 131.

Fahraeus 1919

Fahraeus, Klas. "Paul Cézanne." Ord och Bild 4 (1919), p. 404, ill., as Marnes Stränder, dated 1888.

Vollard 1921

Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Munich: Kurt Wolfe Verlag, 1921, ill. opp. p. 152, as Die Ufer der Marne, dated 1888.

Zeisho 1921

Zeisho, Atzouji. Paul Cézanne. Tokyo: Rakuyodo, Taisho, 1921, fig. 21.

Friedländer 1922

Friedländer, Max J. "Über Paul Cézanne." Die Kunst für Alle 38 (February 1922), ill. p. 141, as Marnebrücke, 1888.

Knapp 1922

Knapp, Fritz. Die künstlerische Kultur des Abendlandes. vol. III, Die malerische Problematik der Moderne: vom Klassizismus zum Expressionismus. Bonn: Schroeder, 1922, pp. 277-278, fig. 198, as Flußlandschaft mit Brücke.

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. 213.

Wedderkop 1922b

Wedderkop, Harro von. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1922, ill.

Burger 1923

Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1923, pl. 130.

Rivière 1923

Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 217, listed, ill. opp. p. 130, as Le Pont de Créteil, dated 1888.

Ternovietz 1925

Ternovietz, Boris Nikolaevich. "Le Musée d'Art moderne de Moscou (Anciennes collections Stchoukine et Morosoff)." L'Amour de l'art 6, no. 12 (December 1925), p. 468, ill. p. 472, as Les Bords de la Marne.

Ettinger 1926

Ettinger, Paul. "Die modernen Franzosen in den Kunstsammlungen Moskaus." Der Cicerone 18, no. 4 (1926), p. 111.

Rutter 1926

Rutter, Frank. Evolution in Modern Art. London: George G Harrap & Company Limited, 1926, pl. 7.

Salmon 1926a

Salmon, André. "Cézanne et son 'Grappin' [Hommage à Paul Cézanne]." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 37 (July 1, 1926), p. 488, ill., as Pont de Puteaux.

Chamot 1927

Chamot, Mary. Review of Cézanne, by Julius Meier-Graefe. Apollo (December 1927), p. 260, ill.

Pfister 1927

Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 102, as Marnebrücke, 1888.

Meier-Graefe 1927a

Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. LXXVIII.

Scheffler 1927a

Scheffler, Karl. Europäische Kunst im 19. Jahrhundert. Berlin: B. Cassirer, 1927, p. 99.

Museum of Modern Western Art 1928

Catalogue du Musée d'art occidental moderne. Moscow: Museum of Modern Western Art, 1928, no. 559.

Fry 1929

Fry, Roger. "Cézannes Udvikling." Samleren 6 (July, August, September 1929), p. 116, ill.

Réau 1929

Réau, Louis. "III: Musée d'art occidental moderne à Moscou." In Catalogue de l'art français dans les musées russes. Paris: A. Colin, 1929, no. 741.

Becker 1932

Becker, John. "The Museum of Modern Western Painting in Moscow—Part I." Creative Art 10 (March 1932), p. 192, ill.

Rivière 1933

Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 131, ill.

Olmenhove 1935

Olmenhove, van den. "Kunst: Paul Cézanne." Verf en kunst: maandblad van P. A. Regnault's verf-, inkt- en blikfabrieken (Surabaya) 4, no.10, no.11, no.12 (1935), ill. p. 9 (no.10), as De oevers van de Marne, 1888.

Iavorskaia 1935a

Iavorskaia, Nina. Cézanne. Moscow: Ogiz-Izogiz, 1935, ill. opp. p. 16.

Benesch 1936

Benesch, Otto. "Cézanne: zur 30. Wiederkehr seines Todestages am 22. Oktober." Die Kunst für Alle 52, no. 3 (December 1936), ill. p. 64, as Die Brücke über die Marne in Créteil, c. 1888-90.

Guenne 1936

Guenne, Jacques. "Paul Cézanne et le drame de la peinture." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 204 (1936), ill. p. [153].

Vergnet-Ruiz 1936

Vergnet-Ruiz, Jean. "Cézanne et I'impressionnisme." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 19, nos. 5-6 (May–June 1936), p. 19, ill., as Bord de la Marne.

Rewald 1936a

Rewald, John. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Art sacré: revue mensuelle, special number, Cézanne (May 1936), p. 8, fig. 14 p. 17, as La Marne.

Venturi 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 631, ill. vol. II, as Le pont sur la Marne, à Créteil.

Huyghe 1936d

Huyghe, René. Cézanne. Paris: Plon, Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1936, pl. 5.

Novotny 1937

Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 65.

Barnes and de Mazia 1939

Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 104, p. 197, ill. (analysis pp. 354–55).

Huisman 1940

Huisman, Georges. Petite Histoire de l'art et des artistes. Paris: F. Nathan, 1940, p. 157, ill.

Rivière 1942

Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 137, ill.

Novotny 1947

Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, col. pl. 59, as Le pont sur la Marne, à Créteil, 1893-95.

Dorival 1948

Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 95, listed p. 160.

Cahiers d'Art 1950

"L'Art moderne français dans…le Musée d'Art Moderne Occidentale." Cahiers d'Art (1950), no. 15, listed p. 338, as Les Bords de la Marne, 1888.

Venturi 1950a

Venturi, Lionello. Impressionists and Symbolists: Manet, Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Scribner, 1950, fig. 126.

Bell 1952

Bell, Clive. The French Impressionists. London: Phaidon, 1952, pl. 30.

Beucken 1955

Beucken, Jean de. Un portrait de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, [1955], pp. 217-18.

Sterling 1955

Sterling, Charles. "Le pont de Mennecy par Cézanne." La Revue des arts (Paris) 5, no. 4 (December 1955), p. 198, ill.

Sterling 1957

Sterling, Charles. Musée de l'Ermitage: La Peinture française de Poussin à nos jours. Paris: Cercle d'art, 1957, pl. 98.

Balzer 1958

Balzer, Wolfgang. Der Französische Impressionismus: Die Hauptmeister in der Malerei. Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 1958, no. 111, ill., as Am Marneufer (Le pont de Créteil), c. 1888-1890.

Sterling 1958

Sterling, Charles. Great French Painting in the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. New York: Abrams, 1958, pl. 99.

Ligocki 1960

Ligocki, Alfred. Cézanne: U źródeł rewolucji w plastyce. Warsaw: Arkady, 1960, p. 32, ill.

Uchida 1960

Uchida, Sono. Cézanne. Tokyo: Misuzu-Shobo, 1960, p. 59, ill.

Feist 1962

Feist, Peter Heinz. "Harmonie Parallel zur Natur, zur Malerei Paul Cezannes." Bildende Kunst 1 (1962), p. 21, ill.

Feist 1963

Feist, Peter Heinz. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1963, p. 29, pl. 39.

Reidemeister 1963

Reidemeister, Leopold. Auf den Spuren der Maler der Ile de France. Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 1963, p. 161, ill.

Ikegami 1969

Ikegami, Chuji. Cézanne. Tokyo: Shueisha, 1969, pl. 42.

Sedova 1974

Sedova, Tat'jana Alekseevna. From Manet to Picasso. Moscow: Izdatelʹstvo Izobrazitelʹnoe Iskusstvo, 1974, no. 27, ill.

Venturi 1978

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 106, ill.

Kuznetsova and Georgievskaia 1979

Kuznetsova, Irina Aleksandrovna, and Evgenia Georgievskaia. French Painting from the Pushkin Museum: 17th to 20th Century. Leningrad: Aurora, 1979, no. 179, ill.

Plazy 1981

Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne. Fribourg: Editions Medea, 1981, p. 45.

Barskaya 1983a

Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, pp. 135-136, pl. 22-24.

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, pp. 172–73, ill.

Lévêque 1988

Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 111, ill. in color.

Düchting 1989

Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 228, ill.

Machotka 1996

Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 73, fig. 41, with photograph of motif, p. 72, fig. 40, as Le Pont sur la Marne à Créteil , dated 1888.

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. 729, ill. vol. 2, as Le Pont sur la Marne à Créteil .

Dittmann 2002

Dittmann, Lorenz. "Cézanne un der Cézanneismus der Künstlergruppe 'Karo-Bube.'" In Die russische Avantgarde und Paul Cézanne. Bönen: Kettler, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, p. 54, fig. 9.

Bardazzi 2007b

Bardazzi, Francesca, ed. Cézanne in Florence: Two Collectors and the 1910 Exhibition of Impressionism. Translated by John Venerella. Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 132–33, ill., as Le Pont sur la Marne à Créteil .

Coutagne and Hurtu 2011

Coutagne, Denis, and Raymond Hurtu. "Paysages des années 1888–1905." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 139, fig. 68, as Le Pont sur la Marne à Créteil .

Mothe 2011

Mothe, Alain. Ce que voyait Cézanne: Les paysages impressionnistes à la lumière des cartes postales. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011, pp. 116–17, ill., as Le Pont sur la Marne à Créteil , with old postcard view of bridge.

Société Paul Cézanne 2011

Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed., Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 101, ill., as Le Pont sur la Marne à Créteil , with photo of motif by Machotka (p. 100).

Coutagne 2011e

Coutagne, Denis. "Il paesaggio in Cézanne." In Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi. Milan: Skira, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 57, fig. 34.

Machotka 2014

Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 141, fig. 49a, with color photo of motif, p. 143, fig. 49b, as Le Pont sur la Marne à Créteil .

Pola Museum of Art 2015

Cézanne: Pioneer of Modern Art. Kanagawa: Pola Museum of Art, Pola Art Foundation, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, p. 94, fig. 18.

Dauberville 2020

Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 149, ill., as Le pont (la Marne à Créteil).

Baldassari, ed. 2021

Baldassari, Anne, ed. La collection Morozov: icônes de l'art moderne. Paris: Editions Gallimard and Fondation Louis Vuitton, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, p. 490 (listed), ill. p. 272.

Chédeville and Hurtu 2021

Chédeville, François, and Raymond Hurtu. "Cezanne sur les bords de Marne." Société Cezanne, August 2021, figs. 287 and 413, 1892–94.

Notes

The old wooden bridge built in 1840 was replaced by a metal one in 1872-73. The house at the right in Cézanne's painting was on the banks of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (Mothe, 2011, p. 116)

Site identified by Pavel Machotka.

Record last updated October 4, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Pont sur la Marne à Créteil, c.1894 (FWN 288)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=707 (accessed on April 23, 2024).