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 311
Le Lac d'Annecy
1896
Alternate titles: Au bord d'un lac; Der blaue See (Lac d'Annecy); Lac d'Annecy; Lake Annecy; Le Lac; Le lac bleu; Le lac bleu (Lac d'Annecy); Le lac d'Annecy; Paysage du lac d'Annecy; The Château de Duingt, on the Lake of Annecy; The Lac d'Annecy; The Lake of Annecy
Rewald (805): 1896; Venturi revised: 1896; Venturi (762): 1896; Rivière: 1897; Cooper: July–August 1896; Gowing: c.1896, possibly reworked later (Edinburgh) and seems to withdraw this suggestion (Burlington); Reff: 1896
Oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 31 7/8 in. (65 x 81 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Moderne Kunstkring, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Internationale tentoonstelling van moderne kunst, October 6–November 5, 1911, no. 21, as Au bord d'un lac, Hoogendijk collection.
Paul Rosenberg, Paris, Œuvres de grands maitres du dix-neuvième siècle, May 3–June 3, 1922, no. 14, as Le Lac, 1895, lent by Marcel Kapferer.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition d'oeuvres des XIXe et XX siècles, June 19–August 1, 1925, no. 9, as Le lac bleu.
Galerie Pigalle, Paris, Exposition Cèzanne, 1839–1906, January 4–February 7, 1930, no. 7, as Le lac bleu (Lac d'Annecy), 1897, lent by Courtauld.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, French Art, January 4–March 12, 1932, no. 505, as Lac d'Annecy, lent by Samuel Courtauld, London; Commemorative Catalogue: no. 285, pl. 139.
Tate Gallery, London, Samuel Courtauld: Memorial Exhibition, May–June 1948, no. 16, as The Lake of Annecy, July 1896.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Landscape in French Art, 1550–1900, December 10, 1949–March 5, 1950, no. 311, ill. no. 58 in Book of Illustrations, as The Château de Duingt, on the Lake of Annecy, July 1896, lent by the Home House Trustees.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 118, ill. lent by Courtauld. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 55, as Le Lac d'Annecy, c. 1896, lent by the Home House Trustees. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway, Paul Cezanne: 28 malerier, November 13–December 1, 1954, no. 23, as Le lac d'Annecy, c. 1896, lent by The Home House Trustees.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Impressionnistes de la Collection Courtauld de Londres, October 1955, no. 14, pl. 47.
Palais de l'Isle, Annecy, France, Impressionnistes: peintres de l'eau, Summer 1958, no. 6, ill., as Le Lac d'Annecy, lent by Courtauld Institute, London.
Arts Council of Great Britain, London, Samuel Courtauld's Collection of French 19th Century Paintings and Drawings, July–August 1976, no. 13.
Takashimaya, Tokyo, The Impressionists and the Post-Impressionists from the Courtauld Collection, January 12–February 28, 1984, no. 14. Traveled to: Takashimaya, Kyoto, Japan, March 8–April 3, 1984; Takashimaya, Osaka, Japan, April 12–May 8, 1984.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Impressionist & Post-Impressionist Masterpieces: The Courtauld Collection, January 14–March 8, 1987, no. 29, ill. Traveled to: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 4–June 21, 1987; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, July 11–September 27, 1987; Art Institute, Chicago, October 17, 1987–January 3, 1988; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, January 30–April 3, 1988.
Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, Impressionism for England: Samuel Courtauld as Patron and Collector, June 17–September 25, 1994, no. 13, ill.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 174, ill. shown in Paris and London only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
The Courtauld Gallery, London, The Courtauld Cézannes, June 26–October 5, 2008, no. 9, ill., pp.102–05 (dated 1896), as Le Lac d'Annecy.
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, La Collection Courtauld: le parti de l'impressionnsime, February 20–June 17, 2019. (Exhibition catalogue: Serres et al 2019), no. 43, ill., as Le Lac d'Annecy.
KODE Art Museums, Bergen, Norway, Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Courtauld at KODE Art Museums, July 16–October 10, 2021, no. 9, ill. 1896.
Published References
"[Supplement of no. 8 (illustration hors texte)]." L'Amour de l'Art 1, no. 8 (December 1920), color pl. between pp. 264-265, as Le Lac.
Fontainas, André and Louis Vauxcelles. "Paul Cézanne." Histoire générale de l'art français de la Révolution à nos jours: la peinture, la gravure, le dessin. Paris: Librairie de France, 1922, pl. between pp. 236, 237, as Le Lac.
Janneau, Guillaume. "Les grandes expositions: maîtres du siècle passé." La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe (Paris), vol. 5, no. 5 (May 1922), p. 342, as Le Lac, Marcel Kapferer collection.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 221, listed.
"Ici et ailleurs: une exposition Cézanne." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 6, no. 21 (Nov. 1, 1925), p. 402, ill., as Le lac bleu.
Dormoy, Marie. "La Collection Courtauld." L'Amour de l'art 10, nos. 1 et 2 (January et February 1929), ill. p. 19, as Le lac bleu.
Dormoy, Marie. "Die Cézanne—Ausstellung im Théâtre Pigalle." Kunst und Künstler 28, no. 6 (1930), p. 248.
"Chronique des expositions [Galerie Pigalle]." L'Amour de l'art 11, no. 3 (March 1930), ill. p. 156, as Le lac bleu (Lac d'Annecy).
Neugass, Fritz. "Paul Cézanne." Der Cicerone 22 , no. 4 (1930), ill. p. 106, as Der blaue See (Lac d'Annecy), 1897.
Wilenski, R.H. "La collection Courtauld." Formes: revue internationale des arts plastiques, no. 10 (December 1930), p. 17, as Lac d'Annecy.
Jamot, Paul, and Percy Moore Turner. Collection de tableaux français, faite à Londres, 20 Portman Square, par Samuel et Elizabeth Courtauld. London: [privately published], 1934, no. 27.
Catalogue of the Pictures and Other Works of Art at Home House, 20 Portman Square, London. London: Home House Trustees, 1935, no. 8, pl. V, as Le Lac d'Annecy.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 762, ill. vol. II, as Lac d'Annecy.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 55, as Paysage du lac d'Annecy.
Gaunt, William. "Paul Cézanne: An Essay in Valuation of the Ideals and Achievements of the Greatest Amateur of an Amateur Age in Painting." Studio 116, no. 564 (September 1938), ill. on cover.
Zervos, Christian. Histoire de l'art contemporain. Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'art, 1938, p. 42, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Impressionists and Symbolists: Manet, Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Scribner, 1950, fig. 138.
Hauser, Arnold. The Social History of Art. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1951, vol. II, pl. LXII.
Sterling, Charles. "Le pont de Mennecy par Cézanne." La Revue des arts (Paris) 5, no. 4 (December 1955), p. 198, ill.
Blunt, Anthony (preface). Art et Style. 36, Les impressionnistes de la collection Courtauld. Paris, 3rd trimester 1955, ill. in color (n.p.), as Le Lac d'Annecy, 1896.
Sérullaz, Maurice. Les Peintres Impressionnistes. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1959, p. 126, ill., as Le Lac d'Annecy.
Rewald, John. Cézanne, Geffroy et Gasquet, suivi de Souvenirs sur Cézanne de Louis Aurenche et de lettres inédites. Paris: Quatre Chemins-Editart, 1959, fig. 8.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 153.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 45.
Huyghe, René. La Relève du réel: impressionnisme, symbolisme. Paris: Flammarion, 1974, p. 197, note 1 ("Cézanne a fait plus de toiles à Annecy").
Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 68.
Stokes, Adrian. "Cézanne." In The Critical Writings of Adrian Stokes, vol. 2, 1937–58. London: Thames & Hudson, 1978, pp. 267–68 (described, but with erroneous illustration, fig. 96).
Monneret, Sophie. Cézanne, Zola . . . La fraternité du génie. Paris: Denoël, 1978, ill. p. 31 (in reverse).
Monneret, Sophie. L'Impressionnisme et son époque: dictionnaire international illustré. Paris: Denoël, 1978, vol. 1, ill. p. 125 (in reverse).
Ponente, Nello, ed. Cézanne e le avanguardie. Rome: Officina Edizioni, 1981, Covre: pl. 6.
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 66, ill. in color.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 124, ill. in color.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 203, ill.
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision of Landscape. Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland, 1990. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 58.
Coutagne, Denis. "Cézanne, tradition et modernité." In Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990, p. 105, fig. 51.
Henkels, Herbert. "Cézanne en Van Gogh in het Rijksmuseum voor Moderne Kunst in Amsterdam: De collectie van Cornelis Hoogendijk (1866–1911)." Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 41, nos. 3–4 (1993), fig. 61.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 123, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 93, fig. 60, with photograph of motif, p. 92, fig. 59, as Le Lac d'Annecy.
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. 805, ill. vol. 2, as Le Lac d'Annecy.
Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 13, fig. 5, as The Lac d'Annecy.
Bois, Yve-Alain. "Cézanne: Words and Deeds." Translated by Rosalind Krauss. October 84 (Spring 1998), p. 33, ill, as The Lac d'Annecy.
Coutagne, Denis. "Cézanne au fil de l'eau." In Au fil de l'eau. Aix-en-Provence: Ville d'Aix-en-Provence, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 12, as Le Lac d'Annecy.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Motive: Versuch einer neuen Ordnung." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 211, ill.
Robbins, Anne. Cézanne in Britain. London: National Gallery, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 94, as Le Lac d'Annecy, listed.
Verdi, Richard. "Cézanne in Britain, London." The Burlington Magazine 149, no. 1246 (January 2007), p. 53 mentioned, as Lac d'Annecy.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 318; vol. 2, p. 216, as Le Lac d'Annecy.
Mothe, Alain. Ce que voyait Cézanne: Les paysages impressionnistes à la lumière des cartes postales. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011, pp. 132–33, ill., as Le Lac d'Annecy, with old postcard view of motif.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed., Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 100, ill., as Lac d'Annecy.
Coutagne, Denis. "Il paesaggio in Cézanne." In Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi. Milan: Skira, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 58, fig. 35.
Cézanne, Paul. The Letters of Paul Cézanne. Edited and translated by Alex Danchev. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson; Getty Publications, 2013, p. 278, ill.
Cézanne, Philippe. "My Great-Grandmother Marie-Hortense Fiquet." In Madame Cézanne. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 42, fig. 11, as Lake Annecy.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 157, fig. 56b, with color photo of motif, p. 154, fig. 56a, as Le Lac d'Annecy.
Nagaï, Takanori. "Cézanne and Jas de Bouffan." In Le "basho" dans l'art moderne français. Tokyo: Sangensha, 2016, p. 125, ill.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 198, fig. 60.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. London and Princeton, N,J.: National Portrait Gallery Publications and Princeton University Press, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 67.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 56.
Salmon, Dimitri. Le "Saint Joseph charpentier" de Georges de La Tour: un don au Louvre de Percy Moore Turner. Gand: Snoeck, 2018, p. 405.
Salmon, Dimitri. Percy Moore Turner, Précieux conseiller de Samuel & Elizabeth Courtauld. Paris: Fondation Louis Vuitton, 2019, annex list, no. 28, ill.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 79bis, as Le lac d'Annecy.
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 140.
Sidlina, Natalia. "Cezanne's Slow Homecoming." In Cezanne. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2022, p. 64, fig. 4.
Heteran, Marjan van. "Van Gogh, Cézanne, Le Fauconnier and the Bergen School." In Van Gogh, Cézanne, Le Fauconnier and the Bergen School. Zwolle: Stedelijk Museum and Waanders, 2023. Exhibition catalogue, p. 123, fig. 133.
Photo: Courtesy Alain Mothe
A view of the Château du Duingt seen across the Lac d'Annecy.
John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.
Photo: John Rewald; © Sabine Rewald
Site identified by John Rewald and Pavel Machotka.
Photo: Pavel Machotka, 1976; © Courtesy Pavel Machotka Archive
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Record last updated March 21, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Lac d'Annecy, 1896 (FWN 311)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=781 (accessed on January 18, 2025).
