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 293
Paysage des environs d'Aix (la plaine de l'Arc )
1892–95
Alternate titles: La plaine de l'Arc; La vallée de l'Arc; Landscape in Provence; Landscape near Aix (The Plain of the Arc); Landschaft mit Haus; Paysage; Paysage de Provence; Paysage des environs d'Aix - La Plaine de l'Arc; Provence Landscape; View of the Arc Valley
Rewald (758): 1892–95; Venturi revised: 1886–88; Venturi (472): 1885–87; Rivière: 1890; Reff: 1892 (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
32 5/8 x 26 in. (82.7 x 66 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Französische Kunst des XIX. und XX. Jahrhunderts, October 5–November 14, 1917, no. 28, as Paysage, lent by K[elekian].
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, Paintings by Modern French Masters Representing the Post-Impressionists and Their Predecessors, April 1921, no. 25, as Landscape in Provence, lent by Kelekian.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings, May 3–September 15, 1921, no. 20, as Provence Landscape, lent by anon. [Kelekian].
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Impressionisten, September–October 1925, no. 12, as Landschaft mit Haus.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 24, ill. lent by Cutting.
Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, Owned in New Jersey, October 24–December 1, 1946, no. 44.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 29, lent by Cutting.
Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, From the Collection of Mrs. C. Suydam Cutting, February 8–April 25, 1954, no. 6, ill.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Masterpieces of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Painting, April 25–May 24, 1959, listed p. 29, ill., as View of the Arc Valley, 1885-1887, lent by Mrs. Suydam Cutting.
Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, Art from New Jersey Homes, October 17–November 29, 1964.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Olympia's Progeny: French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings (1865-1905), October 28–November 27, 1965, no. 49, ill., as La plaine de l'Arc, 1885-87, lent by a Private Foundation.
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Impressionism: Selections from Five American Museums, November 4–December 31, 1989, no. 13, ill. lent by Carnegie Museum of Art. Traveled to: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, January 27–March 25, 1990; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, April 21–June 17, 1990; Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, July 14–September 9, 1990; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, September 30–November 25, 1990.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 70, ill. (Max Silberberg erroneously listed as previous owner).
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Magie der Bäume, November 21, 1998–April 5, 1999, no. 19, ill., as Paysage des environs d'Aix - La Plaine de l'Arc.
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseille, France, Right Under the Sun, Landscape in Provence: From Classicism to Modernism (1750–1920), May 18–August 21, 2005, no. 35, ill., p. 178, as Paysage des environs d'Aix (la plaine de l'Arc ). Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, September 22, 2005–January 8, 2006.
Published References
Collection Kélékian: tableaux de l'école française moderne. Paris and New York: [s.n.], 1920, pl. 6, as Paysage de Provence.
"French Masters in Big Exhibition." American Art News 19, no. 25 (April 2, 1921), p. 1 (mentioned), as Landscape in Provence.
Burroughs, Alan. "Making History of Impressionism." The Arts 1, no. 4 (April 1921), p. 18, ill.
T.[abarant], [Adolphe]. "La curiosité." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 2, no. 24 (December 15, 1921), ill. p. 633.
Göpel, Erhard. "Sammler, Händler und der Markt." Kunst und Künstler 31, no. 7 (1932), p. 270, ill. p. 267.
Morselle, Mary. "Bignou Exhibits Great Examples of French Art: Cézanne and the Impressionists." The Art News 34, 5 (November 2, 1935), p. 5.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 472, ill. vol. II, as La plaine de l'Arc.
Goldwater, Robert J. "Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections." Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 152, ill.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, col. pl. 41, as La vallée de l'Arc, 1885-87.
Friedländer, Max J. Landscape, Portrait, Still Life: Their Origin and Development. Oxford: B. Cassirer, 1949, ill. opp. p. 129.
Groschwitz, Gustave von. "Cézanne Joins the Institute Collection." Carnegie Magazine (May 1966), pp. 149–51, ill. on cover.
Laderman, Gabriel. "The Importance of Cézanne." Art News 65, no. 6 (October 1966), p. 41, ill.
"[Aquisitions des musées du monde entier]." La Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 1176 (February 1967), p. 105, no. 371, ill., as La plaine de l'Arc.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 320, 327, 330, 341, fig. 166.
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. 758, ill. vol. 2, as Paysage des environs d'Aix - La Plaine de l'Arc.
Heuß, Anja. "Die Sammlung Max Silberberg." 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, p. 319, color pl. XIV (erroneously attributed to the Max Silberberg collection).
Chédeville, François. "Le Viaduc dans la plaine de l'Arc IV." Société Paul Cézanne (October 15, 2014).
Elderfield John, et al. Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Exhibition catalogue, p. 146, fig. 92, as Landscape near Aix (The Plain of the Arc).
Record last updated October 24, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Paysage des environs d'Aix (la plaine de l'Arc ), 1892–95 (FWN 293)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=735 (accessed on January 21, 2025).
