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Catalogue entry

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

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (April 4, 1911)
Auguste Pellerin, Paris (April 4, 1911)
Marius de Zayas, New York;
De Zayas Collection, American Art Association, New York, Mar. 24, 1923, no. 87, ill.
Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill, London
Jacques Balsan, New York
[Knoedler Galleries, New York (Dec. 14, 1953)]
Stavros Niarchos, Paris (Oct. 27, 1955);
Private collection
Exhibition History
1921c New York
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].
1921 Minneapolis
Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Modern French Paintings, November 1921, no. 4, as The Bridge, lent by anon. [de Zayas].
1926 London
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.
1947b New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 43, lent by Balsan.
1957–58 New York and traveling
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.
1958 London
Tate Gallery, London, The Niarchos Collection: collection of paintings and sculpture, May 23–June 29, 1958, as The Aqueduct.
1959 Zurich
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Sammlung S. Niarchos, 1959, no. 35, ill.
2011–12 Paris
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 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 219, listed as Le Pont brûlé.
Wilenski 1927
Wilenski, R.H. The Modern Movement in Art. London: Faber & Gwyer, 1927, pl. 15.
Raynal 1936
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. L p. 79.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 640, ill. vol. II, as L'Aqueduc et l'Écluse.
Novotny 1937
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 64.
Lhote 1939
Lhote, André. Traité du paysage. Paris: Floury, 1939, pl. 29, with commentary.
Cogniat 1939a
Cogniat, Raymond. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1939, pl. 94.
Schildt 1946
Schildt, Göran. Cézanne. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1946, fig. 43.
Novotny 1947
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 58, as Paysage avec pont, 1888-90.
Sedlmayr 1948
Sedlmayr, Hans. Der Verlust der Mitte. Salzburg: O. Müller, 1948, pp. 124–25, fig. 51.
Novotny 1961
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 1961, pl. 29.
Schapiro 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 60, ill.
Düchting 1989
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 153, 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. 765, ill. vol. 2, as L'Aqueduc et l'Écluse.
Coutagne and Hurtu 2011
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 2011
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 2011
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 2014
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, Morton, Rey 2017
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 268, fig. 94.
Warman 2017
Warman, Jayne. "Chronologie." In Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 268, fig. 94.
Warman 2017a
Warman, Jayne. "Chronology." In Cézanne Portraits. London and Princeton, NJ.: National Portrait Gallery Publications and Princeton University Press, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 104.
Chédeville and Hurtu 2021
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.

Le Moulin brûlé à Maisons-Alfort, c.1894 (FWN 286). Postcard view of motif. Courtesy of Alain Mothe.
Postcard view of motif. Courtesy of Alain Mothe.
Le Moulin brûlé à Maisons-Alfort, c.1894 (FWN 286). Postcard view of motif. Courtesy of Raymond Hurtu
Postcard view of motif. Courtesy of Raymond Hurtu
Le Moulin brûlé à Maisons-Alfort, c.1894 (FWN 286). Site identified by Raymond Hurtu and Alain Mothe.
Site identified by Raymond Hurtu and Alain Mothe.
Photo: Pavel Machotka, 2011; © Courtesy Pavel Machotka Archive
Le Moulin brûlé à Maisons-Alfort, c.1894 (FWN 286). Postcard view of the moulin brûlé
Postcard view of the moulin brûlé
Photo: Courtesy Alain Mothe
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 April 25, 2024).