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Catalogue entry

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)
Vollard archives: photo no. 568, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1865
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (Gift of Sam Salz, 1966)

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Sam Salz, New York;
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Exhibition History
1902b Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, [Peintures de Cézanne], March 21– April 15 or 25, 1902, tentative identification.
1936g New York
Bignou Gallery, New York, Paul Cézanne, November–December 1936, no. 4, as Rochers au bord de la mer.
1937 Detroit
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Cézanne, January 5, 1937.
1978–79 Pittsburgh and traveling
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.
2020 Princeton and traveling
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1512, ill. vol. II, as Rochers au bord de la mer.
Myers 1957
Myers, Fred A. "Rocks at the Seashore." Carnegie Magazine (January 1967), p. 33, ill.
Carnegie Institute 1973
Catalogue of Painting Collection. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1973, p. 36, ill.
Schapiro 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 4.
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. 68, ill. vol. 2, as Rochers au bord de la mer (l'Estaque?).
Blanc 2019
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Oeuvre de Cezanne à L'Estaque, Huiles – Aquarelles – Dessins, 1864–1885. Marseille: Éditions Gaussen, 2019, fig. 6.
Causey 2020
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 2021
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 April 25, 2024).