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 291
La Meule
1892–94
Alternate titles: La carrière; La meule; La pierre à moudre au domaine du Château-Noir; La pierre à moudre au parc du Château Noir; Millstone in the Park of the Château Noir; The Millstone in the Grounds of Château Noir; Wald mit Mühlstein
Rewald (763): 1892–94; Venturi revised: 1895–99; Venturi (768): 1898–1900; Rivière: 1902
Oil on canvas
28 11/16 x 36 3/8 in. (73 x 92.4 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3876, huile; une jonchee de morceaux de bois, une meule surpasse fond un peu rouge; des grands arbres, 74 x 92 cm (150 frs)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 3341, Meule dans un coin de foret, 73 x 92 cm
Vollard archives: photo no. 49 and 465, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Tholonet 1897
Provenance
Exhibition History
Royal Academy of Arts, London, French Art, January 4–March 12, 1932, no. 511, as La Meule, lent by Pellerin, Paris; Commemorative Catalogue: no. 286.
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, L'Impressionnisme, June 15–September 29, 1935, no. 12, ill., as La Meule, lent by J.V. Pellerin.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 99, ill., pl. XXIX, as La Meule, lent by Pellerin.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 39, ill. lent by Pellerin.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Constable to Cézanne, December 4–24, 1944, no. 42, as La Meule, lent by Wildenstein & Company.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 62, ill. lent by Wildenstein.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Masterpieces of Philadelphia Private Collections, May 20–September 15, 1947, no. 44, ill.
Philadelphia Museum of Arts, Philadelphia, Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, Masterpieces of Painting, November 4, 1950–February 11, 1951, no. 87, ill., as La Meule, lent by Tyson.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne in Philadelphia Collections, July 19–August 21, 1983, no. 17, ill. lent by Philadelphia Museum.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, pl. 191, p. 132 (dated 1898–1900), as La Meule.
Published References
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 223, listed.
Lord, Douglas. "Two Exhibitions at Brussels: II.-The Impressionists at the Palais des Beaux-Arts." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 67, no. 389 (August 1935), p. 87, as La Meule.
Rewald, John, and Léo Marschutz. "Plastique et réalité: Cézanne au Château Noir." L'Amour de l'art 16, no. 1 (January 1935), p. 20, no. 13, fig. 6 p. 17, with photograph of motif, as La pierre à moudre au parc du Château Noir.
Huyghe, René. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 74, as La pierre à moudre au domaine du Château-Noir.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 768, ill. vol. II, as La Meule.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 56.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 16.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 165, listed.
Rewald, John. "As Cézanne Recreated Nature." Art News 43, no. 1 (February 15, 1944), p. 12, ill., with photograph of motif.
Gibbs, Jo. "Cézanne, Father of Modernism, Gives Comprehensive New York Show." Art Digest 21, no. 13 (April 1, 1947), p. 10, ill.
Louchheim, Aline Bernstein. "The Main Line Collects." Art News 46, no. 5 (July 1947), p. 13, ill.
Hofmann, Werner. Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). Munich, Vienna, Basel: Kurt Desch, 1953, pl. 24, as Wald mit Mühlstein.
Rousseau, Théodore, Jr. Paul Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1953, pl. 24.
Rewald, John. "The Collection of Carroll S. Tyson, Jr, Philadelphia, U.S.A." Connoisseur 134 (September 1954), p. 55, ill.
Kramer, Hilton. "Modern Art at the Turn of the Century." Arts Yearbook 1 (1957), p. 30, ill.
Jayne, Horace. "Tyson Collection: A Painter's Eye on Masterworks." ARTNews 63, no. 5 (September 1964), p. 28, ill., as Millstone in the Park of the Château Noir.
Rewald, John. "The Collection of Carroll S. Tyson, Jr, Philadelphia, U.S.A." Bulletin of the Philadelphia Museum of Art 59, no. 280 (Winter 1964), p. 56, ill.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 43, with comments.
Rewald, John. "Cézanne's Last Motifs at Aix." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 88, ill. (with photograph of the motif).
Butler, Marigene. "An Investigation of the Materials and Technique Used by Paul Cézanne." American Institute for Conservation. 1984, ill.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 209, ill.
Wattenmaker, Richard et al. Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, p. 131, fig. 3.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 142, ill.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 141.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 133, fig. 120, with photograph of the motif, fig. 119, as La Meule.
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. 763, ill. vol. 2, as La Meule.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 170, fig. 4.25, as La Meule.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 97, ill. with photo of motif (c. 1935), p. 96, as La meule.
Conisbee, Philip. "Le Tholonet, Bibémus, and the Château Noir." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 197, fig. 9, as La Meule.
Bois, Yve-Alain. "Cézanne and Matisse: From Apprenticeship to Creative Misreading." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 132, pl. 19, as Millstone in the Park of the Château Noir, dated 1898–1900.
Elderfield, John. "Picasso's Extreme Cézanne." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 226, ill., p. 132, pl. 19, as Millstone in the Park of the Château Noir, dated 1898–1900.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection - New Edition. Stein, Susan Alyson and Asher Ethan Miller. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009, fig. 114, ill. p. 155.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 151, fig. 53c, with black and white and color photos of motif, p. 150, figs. 53a and 53b, as La Meule.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 78, ill., as La carrière.
Elderfield John, et al. Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Exhibition catalogue, p. 143, fig. 90, as The Millstone in the Grounds of Château Noir, dated 1895–1900.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 183, fig. 8, as Millstone in the Park of the Château Noir.
Record last updated January 31, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Meule, 1892–94 (FWN 291)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=740 (accessed on October 6, 2024).
