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 335
Sous-bois devant les grottes au-dessus du Château Noir
1900–04
Alternate titles: Dans le parc du Château Noir; Rochers du Château-Noir; Rocks and Trees above Château Noir; Sous-bois devant les grottes; The Grounds of the Château Noir
Rewald (880): 1900–04; Venturi revised: 1895–99; Venturi (787): c.1900
Oil on canvas
35 11/16 x 28 1/8 in. (90.7 x 71.5 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Charpentier, Paris, Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections françaises, 1962, no. 19, ill., as Rochers du Château-Noir, c. 1900, lent by Robert de Bolli.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Französische Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts, von David bis Cézanne, October 7, 1964–January 6, 1965, no. 28.
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. 16, pl. 50. 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).
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Post-Impressionism: Cross-Currents in European Painting, November 17, 1979–March 16, 1980, no. 47, ill., (dated c. 1902), as Dans le parc du Château Noir, lent by National Gallery, London. Traveled to: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 25–September 1, 1980.
National Gallery, London, Cézanne in Britain, October 4, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 41, ill., as The Grounds of the Château Noir, c. 1900–04.
Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, Cézanne & Giacometti: Paths of Doubt, February 20–June 29, 2008, no. 55, ill. p. 71, as Sous-bois devant les grottes au-dessus du Château Noir, lent by National Gallery, London.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 122, ill.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings, March 7–June 14, 2020, no. 21, ill., as Rocks and Trees above Château Noir, dated 1900–04, catalogue notes by Sara Green. Traveled to: Royal Academy, London, July 12–October 18, 2020 (N.B. This venue was cancelled due to 2020 coronavirus).
Published References
Rewald, John, and Léo Marschutz. "Plastique et réalité: Cézanne au Château Noir." L'Amour de l'art 16, no. 1 (January 1935), p. 20, no. 18, fig. 17 p. 21, with photograph of motif, as Sous-bois devant les grottes.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 787, ill. vol. II, as Dans le parc du Château Noir.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 22.
"[Aquisitions des musées du monde entier]." La Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 1141 (February 1964), p. 86, no. 283, ill. p. 87, as Dans le parc du Château Noir.
Davies, Martin. National Gallery Catalogues. French School: Early 19th Century, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists etc. Revised by Cecil Gould. London: National Gallery, 1970, p. 21, no. 6342.
Rewald, John. "Cézanne's Last Motifs at Aix." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 92, ill. (with photograph of the motif).
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision of Landscape. Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland, 1990. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 14.
Baker, Christopher, and Tom Henry. The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue. London: National Gallery Publications, 1995, p. 109, ill., as The Grounds of the Château Noir, 1900-06.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 139, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 105, fig. 74, with photographs of the motif, p. 104, figs. 73a and 73b, as Sous-bois devant les grottes au-dessus du Château Noir.
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. 880, ill. vol. 2, as Sous-bois devant les grottes au-dessus du Château Noir.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 105, ill. with photo of motif (c. 1935), p. 104, as Sous-bois devant les grottes au-dessus du Château Noir.
Conisbee, Philip. "Le Tholonet, Bibémus, and the Château Noir." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 200, fig. 16, as Sous-bois devant les grottes au-dessus du Château Noir.
Reissner, Elisabeth. "Ways of Making: Practice and Innovation in Cézanne's Paintings in the National Gallery." National Gallery Technical Bulletin vol. 29 (2008), p. 7, pl. 7.
Nelson, B.R. "The portrayal of reflective life in action in painting: discovery of the inner life of sensory perception in watercolours by Turner and oil paintings by Cézanne." In Forms of Enlightenment in Art. Cambridge, England: Open Angle Books, 2010, pp. 177-181, as The Grounds of the Château Noir.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 176, fig. 66a, with black and white photo of motif, fig. 66b, as Sous-bois devant les grottes au-dessus du Château Noir.
Record last updated March 16, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Sous-bois devant les grottes au-dessus du Château Noir, 1900–04 (FWN 335)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=854 (accessed on May 2, 2025).
