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)
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© The Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania, USA/ The Bridgeman Art Library
FWN 342
Rochers et arbres
c.1904–05
Alternate titles: Arbres et Rochers; Bäume in Gesteinen; Bouquet d'arbres; Felshalde mit Buschwerk; Landschaft; Les rochers; Rocks and Trees
Rewald (903): c.1904; Venturi revised: 1895–99; Venturi (775): c.1900
Oil on canvas
32 1/8 x 26 in. (81.6 x 66 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 57, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Fontainebleau 1894
Provenance
Exhibition History
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XIV. Jahrgang, Winter 1911/1912, VIII. Ausstellung, April 12 - mid-May, 1912, no. 2, as Landschaft, tentative idenification; could also be no. 3, 5 or 6.
Städtische Ausstellungshalle, Cologne, Internationale Kunstausstellung des Sonderbundes Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, May 25–September 30, 1912, no. 139, as Felshalde mit Buschwerk, lent by Vollard or Müller.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne, February 6–March 6, 1921, no. 16, as Arbres et Rochers, tentative identification, lent by Muller.
Published References
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 98, as Bäume in Gesteinen, Photo: Thannhauser.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 775, ill. vol. II, as Bouquet d'arbres.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 179, p. 254, ill.
De Mazia, Violette. "Transferred Values: Part II." Vistas 1, no. 1 (Spring–Summer 1979), pl. 71.
De Mazia, Violette. "Subject and Subject Matter: Part II." Vistas 2, no. 2, pl. 41.
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. 903, ill. vol. 2, as Rochers et arbres.
Dolkart, Judith, Martha Lucy. The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2012, p. 159, ill. p. 154, comments by Judith Dolkart.
Schaefer, Barbara, ed. "Sonderbundausstellung 1912 - Rekonstruktion." 1912, Mission Moderne: die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes. Cologne: Wienend, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, no. 139, p. 555.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Paul Cézanne, E.R. Butler, Maria Slavona, G.H. Wolff: 12. April bis Mitte 1912." Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1910-1912. vol. 5, "Verheissung und Erfüllung zugleich". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2016, p. 559, ill. listed as probably cat. no. 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 in "1912a Berlin" exhibition.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 77, ill., as Les rochers.
Elderfield John, et al. Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Exhibition catalogue, no. 9, ill. (catalogued but not shown), as Rocks and Trees, dated 1900–04, catalogue notes by Annemarie Iker.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, no. 58, pp. 288–92, as Rocks and Trees (catalogue notes by J. Elderfield).
Notes
Often considered a view of rocks and trees at Château Noir or Bibémus Quarry in Aix, the painting may have been executed in the forest of Fontainebleau, where the artist spent the summers in 1904 and 1905.
Record last updated April 13, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Rochers et arbres, c.1904–05 (FWN 342)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=877 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
