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Catalogue entry

FWN 289
Sous-bois (Fontainebleau?)
c.1892
Alternate titles: Forest Path (Fontainebleau?); Sous-bois; Waldinterieur; Waldlandschaft; Waldweg
Rewald (759): c.1892; Venturi revised: 1890–94; Venturi (647): 1890–94
Oil on canvas
26 x 31 7/8 in. (66 x 81 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 55, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Tholonet 1888
Private collection, Geneva

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Paul Cassirer, Berlin (Dec. 18, 1911)
Ida Bienert, Dresden
Marlborough Galleries, London
Private collection, Switzerland
Private collection, Geneva
Exhibition History
1911c Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XIV. Jahrgang, Winter 1911/1912, II. Ausstellung, c. November 20–December 10, 1911, no. 7, as Waldlandschaft, lent by Vollard.
1913 Munich
Hans Goltz, Munich, Neue Kunst: II. Gesamtausstellung, August–September 1913, no. 12, as Waldweg, tentative identification.
1914 Dresden
Galerie Ernst Arnold, Dresden, Germany, Französische Malerei des XIX. Jahrhunderts, April–May 1914, no. 1, as Waldweg, lent by E. Bienert, Dresden.
1963c London
Marlborough Galleries, London, A Great Period of French Painting: an exhibtion held in memory of the late Clarçia Davidson, June 1963, no. 5, as Sous-bois, 1890-94.
1963d New York
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, Artists and Maecenas: A Tribute to Curt Valentin, November–December 1963, no. 136, ill., as Sous-bois, c. 1890-94.
1967b Paris
Orangerie, Paris, Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections suisses de Manet à Picasso, May 10–October 2, 1967, no. 93, lent by Private collection, Zurich.
1995 London
Royal Academy of Arts, London, From Manet to Gauguin: Masterpieces from Swiss Private Collections, June 30–October 8, 1995, no. 8, ill.
2000 Vienna and traveling
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 120, ill., as Sous-bois (Fontainebleau?), lent by Private collection, shown in Vienna only. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
Published References
Bie 1911b
Bie, Oscar. "Hier und dort." Berliner Börsen-Courier, Nov. 26, 1911, as Waldinterieur.
Bender 1912
Bender, Ewald. "Kleine Kunst-Nachrichten, Dezember 1911: Berlin." Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration 29 (October 1911–March 1912), p. 352, as Waldlandschaft.
Grohmann 1933
Grohmann, Will. Die Sammlung Ida Bienert. Potsdam: Müller & I. Kiepenheuer, 1933, p. 9, no. 1, ill.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 647, ill. vol. II, as Sous-bois.
Ramuz 1968
Ramuz, Charles Ferdinand. Cézanne Formes. Lausanne: International Art Book, 1968, pl. 21.
Lartigue 1995
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 121, 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. 759, ill. vol. 2, as Sous-bois (Fontainebleau?).
Breidbach 2003
Breidbach, Angela. Anschauungsraum bei Cézanne. Cézanne und Helmholtz. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2003, p. 123, ill.
Echte and Feilchenfeldt 2016b
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Kollektionen Martin Bloch, […] Werke von Paul Cézanne, […]: ca. 20. November bis 10. Dezember 1911." In Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1910-1912 vol. 5, "Verheissung und Erfüllung zugleich". Nimbus, 2016, p. 418, ill.
National Gallery 2020
Trustees of the National Gallery. "Paul Cezanne, Forest Path (Fontainebleau?)." Review of the Year, April 2019–March 2020 (London) (2020), p. 37, ill., as Forest Path (Fontainebleau?), on loan from a Private collection; catalogue notes by Anne Robbins.
Record last updated August 26, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Sous-bois (Fontainebleau?), c.1892 (FWN 289)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=736 (accessed on April 25, 2024).