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 290
Rochers dans le bois
c.1893
Alternate titles: Baumstudie; Etude d'arbres; Rocce nel bosco; Rochers à Fontainebleau; Rocks in the Forest; Sous-bois; Wald mit Felsblöcken; Waldinneres; Waldinneres mit Felsblöcken
Rewald (776): c.1893; Venturi revised: c.1892; Venturi (674): 1894–98
Oil on canvas
20 1/16 x 24 in. (51 x 61 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3674, huile; esquisse de la Forêt de Fontainebleau; amas de rochers et feuillages gris argentes, 50 x 61 cm (50 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 408, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Fontainebleau 1894
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Französische Maler des XIX. Jahrhunderts, May 14–August 6, 1933, no. 89, as Waldinneres, c. 1895.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Sammlung:1910-1930, May 26–August 11, 1935, no. 219, as Wald mit Felsblöcken, Inv. Nr. 1392.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 102, as Sous-bois, lent by Kunsthaus Zürich.
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 34, lent by Kunsthaus, Zürich.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 38, lent by Kunsthaus Zürich.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Ausländische Kunst in Zürich, July 25–September 26, 1943, no. 542, as Wald mit Felsblöcken.
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Europäische Kunst, 13. bis 20. Jahrhundert, June 6–August 13, 1950, listed p. 26, as Waldinneres mit Felsblöcken, 1894/98, lent by Kunsthaus Zürich.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Van Gogh's grote tijdgenoten, Summer 1953, no. 7, ill., as Rochers dans le bois, 1894/98. Traveled to: Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, the Netherlands, Summer 1953.
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 40, ill.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 56, lent by Kunsthaus, Zürich.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 55, ill. lent by Kunsthaus, Zürich.
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 39, pl. 22.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Cézanne i blickpunkten, October 17, 1997–January 11, 1998, no. 16, ill., pp. 62–63 (dated 1893–95).
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni, March 7–July 7, 2002, listed p. 188, ill., as Rocce nel bosco, lent by Kunsthaus Zürich.
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Hommage à Cézanne, November 30, 2006–February 11, 2007, no no., as Rochers dans le bois, c. 1893, Kunsthaus Zürich.
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Cézanne, Picasso, Mondriaan: in nieuw perspectief, October 17, 2009–January 24, 2010, no. 50, ill., as Rochers dans le bois.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 183, ill.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings, March 7–June 14, 2020, no. 6, ill., as Rocks in the Forest, dated 1895–1900, catalogue notes by Annemarie Iker. Traveled to: Royal Academy, London, July 12–October 18, 2020 (N.B. This venue was cancelled due to 2020 coronavirus).
Published References
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 97, as Baumstudie.
Combe, Jacques. "L'influence de Cézanne." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 19, nos. 5-6 (May–June 1936), ill. p. 25, as Etude d'arbres.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 674, ill. vol. II, as Rochers dans le bois.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 175, listed.
Lhote, André. Traités du paysage et de la figure. Paris: B. Grasset, 1958, fig. 44, with comments (Traité du paysage).
Dittmann, Lorenz. "Zur Kunst Cézannes." In Festschrift Kurt Badt. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1961, fig. 7.
Grünigen, Berchtold von. Vom Impressionismus zum Tachismus. Basel: Birkhäuser, 1964, p. 25, fig. 36.
Martini, Alberto, and Renata Negri. Cézanne e il post-impressionismo. Milan: Fabbri, 1967, pl. V.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 36.
Wetzel, Christoph. Paul Cézanne: Leben u. Werk. Stuttgart/Zurich: Belser, 1984, p. 62/63, ill. in color.
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 118, ill. in color.
"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), p. 71, ill.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 211, 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. 776, ill. vol. 2, as Rochers dans le bois.
Dittmann, Lorenz. Die Kunst Cézannes: Farbe, Rythmus, Symbolik. Cologne: Böhlau, 2005, pl. 4.
Mothe, Alain. Ce que voyait Cézanne: Les paysages impressionnistes à la lumière des cartes postales. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011, pp. 100–01, ill., as Rochers à Fontainebleau, with old post card view of rocks and forest at Fontainebleau (erroneously lsbeled as FWN322, Metropolitan Museum, NY).
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed., Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 111, ill., as Rochers dans le bois, Fontainebleau?
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. "Cézanne nostalgique: Nostalgia, Memory, Illusion." Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Autumn 2023, fig. 15.
Record last updated March 16, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Rochers dans le bois, c.1893 (FWN 290)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=753 (accessed on April 27, 2024).
