The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
FWN 321
La Route tournante à Montgeroult
1898
Alternate titles: Landscape, Houses on a Wooded Slope; Montgeroult au couchant; Paysage; Paysage (Montgeroult)
Rewald: (828) 1898; Venturi revised: 1898; Venturi: (668) 1899; Rivière: 1897; Cooper: 1898
Oil on canvas
32 x 26 in. (81.2 x 66 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 41, lent by Pellerin.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 63, ill. lent by Wildenstein.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Selections from 5 New York Private Collections, June 26–September 9, 1951.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections, May 31–September 7, 1955, no. 25, ill. lent by Whitney.
Tate Gallery, London, The John Hay Whitney Collection, December 16, 1960–January 27, 1961, no. 10, ill.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, France, Cézanne: The Late Work, October 7, 1977–January 3, 1978, no. 19, pl. 69. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 26–March 19, 1978; Grand Palais, Paris, Cezanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, The John Hay Whitney Collection, May 29–September 5, 1983, no. 22, ill.
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 61, ill.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 12, ill.
Published References
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 222, listed as Le Tholonet: Aux environs du Château-Noir.
Fry, Roger. "Le développement de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 7, no. 12 (December 1926), ill. p. 412, as Paysage.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, p. 80, fig. 42, pl. XXXIII.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 668, ill. vol. II, as Montgeroult au couchant.
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 de Montgeroult ...
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 132.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 80, pl. XXXIII fig. 42, as Landscape, Houses on a Wooded Slope.
Barr, Jr., Alfred H. "Paintings from Private Collections." Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art 22, no. 4 (Summer 1955), p. 31, ill.
Rewald, John. "French Paintings in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney." Connoisseur (American ed.) 137 (April 1956), p. 136, mentioned.
Reidemeister, Leopold. Auf den Spuren der Maler der Ile de France. Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 1963, p. 162, ill.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 45, with comments.
Rubin, William, ed. "Cézannisme and the Beginnings of Cubism." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 166, ill.
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 74, ill. b/w.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 139, fig. 131, with photographs of the motif, figs. 129 and 130, as La Route tournante à Montgeroult.
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. 828, ill. vol. 2, as La Route tournante à Montgeroult.
Mothe, Alain, et al. Cézanne à Auvers-sur-Oise. Saint-Ouen-L'Aumône: editions du Valharmeil, 2006, p. 137, ill.
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. 142, fig. 72, as La Route tournante à Montgeroult.
Lanchner, Carolyn. 10 Works by Paul Cézanne in the Museum of Modern Art Collection. MoMA Artists Series. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2011, pp. 29–32, ill.
Mothe, Alain. Ce que voyait Cézanne: Les paysages impressionnistes à la lumière des cartes postales. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011, pp. 82–83, ill., as La Route tournante à Montgeroult, with old postcard view of site; houses at right are those painted by Cézanne.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed., Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 118, ill., as La Route tournante à Montgeroult, with contemporary view of motif by C. Crès (p. 119); yellow house in middle no longer exists.
Gottlieb, Lennart. Modernism: Reinventing Painting, 1908–41. Aarhus: ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 162, fig. 114.
Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Gli artisti italiani e Cézanne." In Cézanne et gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 50, fig. 54.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 165, fig. 60b, with color photo of motif, fig. 60a, as La Route tournante à Montgeroult.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 155, ill., as Paysage (Montgeroult).
Record last updated April 5, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. "La Route tournante à Montgeroult, 1898 (FWN 321)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=804 (accessed on March 31, 2023).
