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 302
Clairière
c.1895
Alternate titles: Paysage; Sous-bois; Waldlichtung
Rewald (814): c.1895; Venturi revised: c.1900; Venturi (670): 1892–96
Oil on canvas
39 3/8 x 31 7/8 in. (100 x 81 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3506, huile; sous bois très clair, 105 x 90 cm (400 frs)
Vollard C stockbook: no. 7034, Paysage tonalité bleu, 100 x 81 cm
Vollard archives: photo no. 320, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Avon 1894
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 50, as Waldlichtung, c. 1896, lent by Frau A. Staub, Männedorf.
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio, Five Major Paintings by Paul Cézanne, December 16, 1936–January 15, 1937.
Galerie de la Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, La peinture française du XIXe siècle en Suisse, March–June 1938, no. 11, lent by Mme. Emile Staub-Terlinden, Männedorf.
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, The Spirit of Modern France, November–December 1946, no. 55, ill. Traveled to: Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, January–February 1947.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 55, ill. lent by Toledo.
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Six Centuries of Landscape, March 7–April 13, 1952, no. 56.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 41, ill. lent by Toledo.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 113, ill., as Clairière. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 145, ill. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, Cézanne & Giacometti: Paths of Doubt, February 20–June 29, 2008, no. 42, ill. p. 69, as Clairière, lent by Toledo Museum of Art.
Published References
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1913, pl. 104, as Waldlichtung.
Vauvrecy; Paul Cézanne. "Vie de Cézanne'';''Lettres de Cézanne." L'Esprit nouveau: revue internationale d'esthétique, no. 2 (1920), ill. p. 142.
René-Jean. "L'art français dans une collection suisse: la collection de M. Staub-Terlinden." La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe (Paris) vol. 6, no. 8 (August 1923), p. 472, as Sous-bois.
Courthion, Pierre. "L'art français dans les collections privées en Suisse (suite): La collection Emile Staub." L'Amour de l'art 7, no. 2 (February 1926), p. 42, ill. p. 40, as Paysage.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 670, ill. vol. II, as Clairière.
Gauthier, Maximilien. "L'art français du XIXe siècle dans les collections suisses: une heure avec Charles Montag devant les chefs-d'oeuvre de la peinture française réunis à la Galerie des 'Beaux-Arts.'" Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 285 (June 17, 1938), p. 12, as Clairière.
Davidson, Abraham A. "Toledo Acquires Fine Cézanne Landscape." Art Digest 17, no. 16 (May 15, 1943), p. 9, ill.
Toledo Museum of Art Museum News. Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, no. 101 (March 1943), cover, ill.
Godwin, Molly Ohl. Master Works in the Toledo Museum of Art. Toledo, Ohio: Toledo Museum of Art, 1953, p. 33.
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. 814, ill. vol. 2 and p. 58, ill. col. vol. 1, as Clairière.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Gemälde: Formate und Themen, Echtheitsfragen." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 237, ill.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Clairière, c.1895 (FWN 302)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=790 (accessed on January 25, 2025).
