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 38
Rochers au bord de la mer (l'Estaque?)
1865–66
Alternate titles: Rochers au bord de la mer; Rocks at the Seashore
Rewald (68): 1865–66; Venturi revised: 1865–68; Venturi (1512): 1865–70
Oil on canvas
8 11/16 x 12 5/8 in. (22 x 32 cm)
Exhibition History
Galerie Vollard, Paris, [Peintures de Cézanne], March 21– April 15 or 25, 1902, tentative identification.
Bignou Gallery, New York, Paul Cézanne, November–December 1936, no. 4, as Rochers au bord de la mer.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Cézanne, January 5, 1937.
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Monticelli: His Contemporaries, His Influence, October 27, 1978–January 7, 1979, no. 81, fig. 54. Traveled to: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, January 27–March 11, 1979; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., April 21–May 27, 1979; Rijksmus Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, June 28–September 2, 1979.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings, March 7–June 14, 2020, fig. 30, as Rocks at the Seashore, dated c. 1866. Traveled to: Royal Academy, London, July 12–October 18, 2020 (N.B. This venue was cancelled due to 2020 coronavirus).
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1512, ill. vol. II, as Rochers au bord de la mer.
Catalogue of Painting Collection. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1973, p. 36, ill.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 4.
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. 68, ill. vol. 2, as Rochers au bord de la mer (l'Estaque?).
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Oeuvre de Cezanne à L'Estaque, Huiles – Aquarelles – Dessins, 1864–1885. Marseille: Éditions Gaussen, 2019, fig. 6.
Causey, Faya. "Finds." In Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press. Exhibition catalogue, p. 48, fig. 30, as Rocks at the Seashore, dated c. 1866.
Causey, Faya. "Tectonic Cezanne." In Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 2.
Record last updated February 8, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Rochers au bord de la mer (l'Estaque?), 1865–66 (FWN 38)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=85 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
