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 286
Le Moulin brûlé à Maisons-Alfort
c.1894
Alternate titles: L'acqueduc; L'Aqueduc et l'Écluse; Le Moulin brûlé de Charentonneau; Le Moulin brûlé de Charentonneau I; Le Moulin brûlé et la passerelle sur le petit bras de la Marne, Maisons-Alfort; Le Mouline Brûlé de Charentonneau II; Paysage avec pont; The Aqueduct; The Bridge
Rewald (765): 1895–98; Venturi revised: c.1896; Venturi (640): 1888–90; Rivière: 1892; Machotka et al: 1890–94
Oil on canvas
28 11/16 x 36 3/16 in. (73 x 92 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3861, huile; paysage. un pont se reflétant dans l'eau, 73 x 92 cm (100 frs)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 3344, Arche de pont dans paysage vert, 73 x 92 cm
Vollard archives: photo no. 27, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Alfort 1888
Private collection
Provenance
Private collection
Exhibition History
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings, May 3–September 15, 1921, no. 16, as The Bridge, lent by anon. [de Zayas].
Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Modern French Paintings, November 1921, no. 4, as The Bridge, lent by anon. [de Zayas].
French Gallery, London, Great Masters of the French XIXth Century (Ingres to Picasso), February 25 - end of March 1926, no. 3, as L'acqueduc, 1886.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 43, lent by Balsan.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, The Niarchos Collection, December 3, 1957–January 18, 1958, no. 8, ill. Traveled to: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, February 5–March 2, 1958; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 15–April 20, 1958.
Tate Gallery, London, The Niarchos Collection: collection of paintings and sculpture, May 23–June 29, 1958, as The Aqueduct.
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Sammlung S. Niarchos, 1959, no. 35, ill.
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne et Paris, October 12, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 61, ill., p. 134, as Le Moulin brûlé de Charentonneau, c. 1894, lent by Private collection.
Published References
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 219, listed as Le Pont brûlé.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 640, ill. vol. II, as L'Aqueduc et l'Écluse.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 58, as Paysage avec pont, 1888-90.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 60, ill.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 153, ill.
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. 765, ill. vol. 2, as L'Aqueduc et l'Écluse.
Coutagne, Denis, and Raymond Hurtu. "Paysages des années 1888–1905." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 136, ill., as Le Moulin brûlé de Charentonneau I, dated circa 1894.
Mothe, Alain. Ce que voyait Cézanne: Les paysages impressionnistes à la lumière des cartes postales. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011, pp. 114–15, ill., as Le Moulin brûlé et la passerelle sur le petit bras de la Marne, Maisons-Alfort, with old postcard view (erroneously identifying site as at Créteil).
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed., Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 97, ill., as Le Moulin brûlé de Charentonneau, with photo-montage of site by R. Hurtu; dated circa 1894.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 145, fig. 50c, with black and white postcard and color photo of motif, p. 144, figs. 50a and 50b, as Le Moulin brûlé de Charentonneau.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 268, fig. 94.
Warman, Jayne. "Chronologie." In Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 268, fig. 94.
Warman, Jayne. "Chronology." In Cézanne Portraits. London and Princeton, NJ.: National Portrait Gallery Publications and Princeton University Press, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 104.
Chédeville, François, and Raymond Hurtu. "Cezanne sur les bords de Marne." Société Cezanne, August 2021, fig. 142, as Le Mouline Brûlé de Charentonneau II, 1892–94.
Notes
This site has recently been identified by Raymond Hurtu as Le Moulin brûlé in the village of Maisons Alfort to the southeast of Paris, towards Créteil (see Coutagne and Hurtu, 2011). It is known that the artist was in Alfort in March 1894 (based on a letter written to Gustave Geffroy). The discovery of the site combined with the letter sent from Alfort have informed the suggested new date for the painting of circa 1894.
Record last updated January 20, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Moulin brûlé à Maisons-Alfort, c.1894 (FWN 286)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=742 (accessed on February 7, 2025).