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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)
Catalogue entry
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
Auguste Pellerin, Paris;
Jean-Victor Pellerin, Paris
Wildenstein Galleries, New York
Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, New York;
Mrs. John Hay Whitney, New York;
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1998)
Exhibition History
1939d London
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 41, lent by Pellerin.1947b New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 63, ill. lent by Wildenstein.1951b New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Selections from 5 New York Private Collections, June 26–September 9, 1951.1955b New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections, May 31–September 7, 1955, no. 25, ill. lent by Whitney.1960–61 London
Tate Gallery, London, The John Hay Whitney Collection, December 16, 1960–January 27, 1961, no. 10, ill.1977–78 New York and traveling
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 (see Paris 1978a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues).1983 Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., The John Hay Whitney Collection, May 29–September 5, 1983, no. 22, ill.1990 Edinburgh
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 61, ill.2014a Madrid
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 12, ill.Published References
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 222, listed as Le Tholonet: Aux environs du Château-Noir.Fry 1926
Fry, Roger. "Le développement de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 7, no. 12 (December 1926), ill. p. 412, as Paysage.Fry 1927a
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, p. 80, fig. 42, pl. XXXIII.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 668, ill. vol. II, as Montgeroult au couchant.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 de Montgeroult ...Novotny 1938
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 132.Fry 1952
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.Schapiro 1952a
Schapiro, Meyer. Cézanne. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1952, pp. 112–13, ill.Barr 1955
Barr, Jr., Alfred H. "Paintings from Private Collections." Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art 22, no. 4 (Summer 1955), p. 31, ill.Rewald 1956c
Rewald, John. "French Paintings in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney." Connoisseur (American ed.) 137 (April 1956), p. 136, mentioned.Russell 1958
Russell, John. "La Collection Whitney." L'Oeil (May 1958), p. 36.Rosenblum 1961
Rosenblum, Robert. Cubism and Twentieth Century Art. New York: Abrams, 1961, pl. 14.Reidemeister 1963
Reidemeister, Leopold. Auf den Spuren der Maler der Ile de France. Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 1963, p. 162, ill.Brion 1971
Brion, Marcel. Cézanne. Milan: Fratelli Fabbri, 1971, ill. p. 80.Schapiro 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 45, with comments.Elgar 1975
Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 136.Rubin 1977b
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 and Takumi 1986
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 74, ill. b/w.Verdi 1992
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 181, fig. 158.Machotka 1996
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 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. 828, ill. vol. 2, as La Route tournante à Montgeroult.Mothe et al. 2006
Mothe, Alain, et al. Cézanne à Auvers-sur-Oise. Saint-Ouen-L'Aumône: editions du Valharmeil, 2006, p. 137, ill.Coutagne and Hurtu 2011
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 2011
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 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. 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 2011
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 2013
Gottlieb, Lennart. Modernism: Reinventing Painting, 1908–41. Aarhus: ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 162, fig. 114.Benedetti 2013b
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 2014
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 2020
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).
Photograph of the motif.
John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washignton, D.C.
Photo: John Rewald, circa 1935; © Sabine Rewald
Photo: Courtesy Alain Mothe
Site identified by John Rewald.
Photo: Pavel Machotka, 1977; © Courtesy Pavel Machotka Archive
Record last updated April 5, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Route tournante à Montgeroult, 1898 (FWN 321)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=804 (accessed on April 20, 2024).
