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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)
Catalogue entry
© 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; Millstone and Cistern under Trees; The Millstone and Cistern in the Grounds of Château Noir
Rewald (764): 1892–94; Venturi revised: c.1890; Venturi (485): 1885–87
Oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 31 7/8 in. (65.1 x 81 cm)
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)
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
[Paul Guillaume, Paris]
Barnes Foundation, Merion and Philadelphia (December 24, 1924)
Exhibition History
1993–95 Washington, D.C. and traveling
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation, May 2–August 15, 1993, no number, pp. 128–31, ill. p.129, 130 (detail). 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
Barnes and de Mazia 1933
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Henri-Matisse. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1933, pp. 140, 456.Venturi 1936b
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 1938
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 15.Barnes and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 174, p. 241, ill.Loran 1943
Loran, Erle. Cézanne's Composition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943, pp. 67, 69, pl. XI (with photograph of the motif).Berger 1958
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 1968
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 79.De Mazia 1976a
De Mazia, Violette. "E Pluribus Unum." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 7, no. 1 (Spring 1976), pp. 17, 2126, 28, 30, pl. 81.Rewald 1977a
Rewald, John. "Cézanne's Final Decade." Horizon (October 1977), p. 89, ill., with photograph of motif.Rewald 1977b
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 1996
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 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. 764, ill. vol. 2, as La Meule et citerne en sous-bois.Société Paul Cézanne 2005
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 2008
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 2014
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.Elderfield et al 2020
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. 91, as The Millstone and Cistern in the Grounds of Château Noir.Dombrowski, Ireson and Patry 2021
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, no. 34, pp. 176–85, as Millstone and Cistern under Trees (catalogue notes by N. Athanassoglou-Kallmyer).Shutova and Buckley 2021
Shutova, Anya, and Barbara Buckley. "Materials and Techniques: A Study of Cézanne's Paintings in the Barnes Foundation." In Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, figs. 6a and 6b (detail) showing the graphite underdrawing.
Motif for no. 292.
John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.
Photo: John Rewald, circa 1935; © Sabine Rewald
Site identified by Erle Loran.
Photo: Erle Loran; © Courtesy P
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Meule et citerne en sous-bois, 1892–94 (FWN 292)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=741 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
