Catalogue entry

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)

The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London: Courtauld Gift 1932 (P.1932.SC.60)

Keywords

Locales
Southern France:
- Annecy / Talloires »
Landscape
Natural motifs:
- mountain(s) / montagne(s) »
- water's edge / bord de l'eau »
Landscape
Man-made motifs:
- house(s) / maison(s) »

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris

Cornelis Hoogendijk, Amsterdam

Paul Rosenberg, Paris (1920)

Marcel Kapferer, Paris

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (Apr. 30, 1925)

Percy Moore Turner, London (Jan. 22, 1926)

Samuel Courtauld, London (1926);

The Courtauld Gallery, London (1932)

Exhibition History

1911 Amsterdam

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.

1922d Paris

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.

1925 Paris

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition d'oeuvres des XIXe et XX siècles, June 19–August 1, 1925, no. 9, as Le lac bleu.

1930a Paris

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.

1932 London

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.

1933 Liverpool

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 1933, no. 582.

1948 London

Tate Gallery, London, Samuel Courtauld: Memorial Exhibition, May–June 1948, no. 16, as The Lake of Annecy, July 1896.

1949–50 London

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.

1952 Chicago and traveling

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.

1954 Edinburgh and traveling

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.

1954 Oslo

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.

1955b Paris

Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Impressionnistes de la Collection Courtauld de Londres, October 1955, no. 14, pl. 47.

1958 Annecy

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.

1976a London

Arts Council of Great Britain, London, Samuel Courtauld's Collection of French 19th Century Paintings and Drawings, July–August 1976, no. 13.

1984 Tokyo and traveling

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.

1987–88 Cleveland and traveling

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.

1994 London

Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, Impressionism for England: Samuel Courtauld as Patron and Collector, June 17–September 25, 1994, no. 13, ill.

1995–96 Paris and traveling

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.

2008 London

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.

2019 Paris

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.

2021 Bergen

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

L'Amour de l'art 1920

"[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 and Vauxcelles 1922

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 1922

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 1923

Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 221, listed.

Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 1925d

"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 1929

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.

Wencker 1929

Wencker, Tilly. "Château Noir." Kunst und Künstler 27, no. 6 (1929), ill. p. 227.

Dormoy 1930

Dormoy, Marie. "Die Cézanne—Ausstellung im Théâtre Pigalle." Kunst und Künstler 28, no. 6 (1930), p. 248.

L'Amour de l'art 1930

"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 1930

Neugass, Fritz. "Paul Cézanne." Der Cicerone 22 , no. 4 (1930), ill. p. 106, as Der blaue See (Lac d'Annecy), 1897.

P.C. 1930

P.C. "Rundschau: Paris." Der Cicerone 22, no. 3 (1930), p. 87.

Wilenski 1930

Wilenski, R.H. "La collection Courtauld." Formes: revue internationale des arts plastiques, no. 10 (December 1930), p. 17, as Lac d'Annecy.

Wilenski 1931

Wilenski, R.H. French Painting. Boston: Hale, Cushman & Flint, 1931, pl. 127.

Jamot and Turner 1934

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.

Home House 1935

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.

Mack 1935

Mack, Gerstle. Paul Cézanne. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935, fig. 35.

Faure 1936

Faure, Élie. Cézanne. Paris: Editions Braun, 1936, pl. 50.

Venturi 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 762, ill. vol. II, as Lac d'Annecy.

Rewald 1937a

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 1938

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 1938

Zervos, Christian. Histoire de l'art contemporain. Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'art, 1938, p. 42, ill.

Dorival 1948

Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 143, listed pp. 169-170.

Sedden 1949

Sedden, Richard. "Critique of the Artist's Vision." Studio (March 1949), p. 65, ill.

Jourdain 1950

Jourdain, Francis. Cézanne. Paris: Braun, 1950, ill.

Venturi 1950a

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 1951

Hauser, Arnold. The Social History of Art. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1951, vol. II, pl. LXII.

Cooper 1954b

Cooper, Douglas. The Courtauld Collection. London: Athlone Press, 1954, no. 17.

Beucken 1955

Beucken, Jean de. Un portrait de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, [1955], pp. 255-56.

Sterling 1955

Sterling, Charles. "Le pont de Mennecy par Cézanne." La Revue des arts (Paris) 5, no. 4 (December 1955), p. 198, ill.

Art et Style 1955b

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 1959

Sérullaz, Maurice. Les Peintres Impressionnistes. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1959, p. 126, ill., as Le Lac d'Annecy.

Rewald 1959a

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.

Uchida 1960

Uchida, Sono. Cézanne. Tokyo: Misuzu-Shobo, 1960, p. 71, ill.

Novotny 1961

Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 1961, pl. 37.

Beucken 1962

Beucken, Jean de. Cézanne. New York: Viking Press, 1962, p. 96, ill.

Feist 1963

Feist, Peter Heinz. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1963, pp. 33, 42, pl. 63.

Murphy 1968

Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 153.

Ikegami 1969

Ikegami, Chuji. Cézanne. Tokyo: Shueisha, 1969, pl. 59.

Huyghe 1971

Huyghe, René. Impressionism. London: Bracken Books, 1971, p. 267, ill.

Schapiro 1973

Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 45.

Huyghe 1974

Huyghe, René. La Relève du réel: impressionnisme, symbolisme. Paris: Flammarion, 1974, p. 197, note 1 ("Cézanne a fait plus de toiles à Annecy").

Elgar 1975

Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 98.

Rubin 1977a

Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 68.

Stokes 1978

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).

Venturi 1978

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 143, ill.

Monneret 1978a

Monneret, Sophie. Cézanne, Zola . . . La fraternité du génie. Paris: Denoël, 1978, ill. p. 31 (in reverse).

Monneret 1978b

Monneret, Sophie. L'Impressionnisme et son époque: dictionnaire international illustré. Paris: Denoël, 1978, vol. 1, ill. p. 125 (in reverse).

Ponente 1980

Ponente, Nello. Paul Cézanne. Bologna: Capitol, 1980, pl. 25.

Ponente 1981

Ponente, Nello, ed. Cézanne e le avanguardie. Rome: Officina Edizioni, 1981, Covre: pl. 6.

Harris 1982

Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 66, ill. in color.

Lévêque 1988

Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 124, ill. in color.

Düchting 1989

Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 203, ill.

Verdi 1990

Verdi, Richard. Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision of Landscape. Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland, 1990. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 58.

Coutagne 1990c

Coutagne, Denis. "Cézanne, tradition et modernité." In Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990, p. 105, fig. 51.

Naubert-Riser 1992

Naubert-Riser, Constance. Cézanne. London: Studio Editions, 1994, p. 105.

Verdi 1992

Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 180, fig. 157.

Henkels 1993

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 1995

Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 123, ill.

Patin 1995

Patin, Sylvie. Cézanne. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 77.

Cahn 1995b

Cahn, Isabelle. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 1995, p. 101, ill.

Machotka 1996

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 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. 805, ill. vol. 2, as Le Lac d'Annecy.

Smith 1996

Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 13, fig. 5, as The Lac d'Annecy.

Bois 1998

Bois, Yve-Alain. "Cézanne: Words and Deeds." Translated by Rosalind Krauss. October 84 (Spring 1998), p. 33, ill, as The Lac d'Annecy.

Coutagne 2000

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.

Lewis 2000

Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 294, fig. 184.

Feilchenfeldt 2005c

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 2006b

Robbins, Anne. Cézanne in Britain. London: National Gallery, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 94, as Le Lac d'Annecy, listed.

Verdi 2007

Verdi, Richard. "Cézanne in Britain, London." The Burlington Magazine 149, no. 1246 (January 2007), p. 53 mentioned, as Lac d'Annecy.

Machotka 2008

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 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. 132–33, ill., as Le Lac d'Annecy, with old postcard view of motif.

Société Paul Cézanne 2011

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 2011e

Coutagne, Denis. "Il paesaggio in Cézanne." In Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi. Milan: Skira, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 58, fig. 35.

Cézanne 2013

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 2014

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 2014

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 2016

Nagaï, Takanori. "Cézanne and Jas de Bouffan." In Le "basho" dans l'art moderne français. Tokyo: Sangensha, 2016, p. 125, ill.

Elderfield, Morton, Rey 2017

Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 198, fig. 60.

Elderfield, Morton, Rey 2017a

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 2018

Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 56.

Salmon 2018

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 2019

Salmon, Dimitri. Percy Moore Turner, Précieux conseiller de Samuel & Elizabeth Courtauld. Paris: Fondation Louis Vuitton, 2019, annex list, no. 28, ill.

Dauberville 2020

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.

Cezanne 2021

Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 140.

Sidlina 2022

Sidlina, Natalia. "Cezanne's Slow Homecoming." In Cezanne. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2022, p. 64, fig. 4.

Heteran 2023

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

Le Lac d'Annecy, 1896 (FWN 311). 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.

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.

Site identified by John Rewald and Pavel Machotka.

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 April 25, 2024).

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