The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
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© The Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania, USA/ The Bridgeman Art Library
FWN 292
La Meule et citerne en sous-bois
1892–94
Alternate titles: Meule et citerne; Meule et citerne dans le sous-bois du Château Noir; Meule et citerne en sous-bois
Rewald: (764) 1892–94; Venturi revised: c.1890; Venturi: (485) 1885–87
Oil on canvas
25 3/16 x 31 1/2 in. (64 x 80 cm)
25 5/8 x 31 15/16 in. (65 x 81 cm) (BF)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3756, huile. sous bois terrain rouge arbres dénudés, 65 x 81 cm (150 frs)
Vollard W stockbook: no. 1361, paysage; huile, 65 x 81 (140,000)
Exhibition History
National Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia, Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation, May 2–August 15, 1993, no number, ill., p. 128. Traveled to: Musèe d'Orsay, Paris, November 6, 1993–January 2, 1994. National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, January 21–April 3, 1994. Kimbell Art Museum, Forth Worth, Texas, April 24–August 16, 1994. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, September 17–December 31, 1994. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, January 29–April 1995. Haus der Kunst, Munich, June 23–October 22, 1995.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 485, ill. vol. II as Meule et citerne en sous-bois.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 15.
Barnes, Albert C, and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 174, p. 241, ill.
Loran, Erle. Cézanne's Composition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943, pp. 67, 69, pl. XI (with photograph of the motif).
Berger, René. Découverte de la peinture. Lausanne: La Guilde du Livre, 1958, fig. 299, p. 219 (with photo of motif) as Meule et citerne dans le sous-bois du Château Noir.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 79.
Rewald, John. "Cézanne's Final Decade." Horizon (October 1977), p. 89, ill, with photograph of motif.
Rewald, John. "Cézanne's Last Motifs at Aix." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 89, ill. (with photograph of the motif).
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 137, fig. 128, with photograph of the motif, fig. 127 as Meule et citerne en sous-bois, dated c. 1897–98.
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. 764, ill. vol. 2 as La Meule et citerne en sous-bois.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 99, ill. with photo of motif (c. 1935), p. 98 as La Meule et citerne en sous-bois.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 244; vol. 2, p. 163 as La Meule et citerne en sous-bois.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 152, fig. 54a, with black and white photo of motif, fig. 54b as Meule et citerne.
Record last updated January 4, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. "La Meule et citerne en sous-bois, 1892–94 (FWN 292)." The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=741 (accessed on February 27, 2020).
