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 338
Rochers près des grottes au-dessus du Château Noir
c.1904
Alternate titles: Les Rochers de Bibémus; Paysage; Rocce vicino alle grotte sopra; Rochers de Bibémus; Rochers de Bitémus [sic]; Rochers près des grottes; Rochers près des grottes au-dessus de Château Noir; Rocks above Château Noir; Rocks near the Caves above the Château Noir
Rewald (909): c.1904; Venturi revised: 1895–99; Venturi (786): 1900–1904
Oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 21 1/4 in. (65 x 54 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition Paul Cézanne (au profit de la caisse du monument Cézanne), March 3–24, 1924.
Musée de Cannes, Cannes, France, La Provence et ses peintres au XIXe siècle, 1929, no. 10, lent by Matisse.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, May 18–29, 1931.
Jeu de Paume, Paris, Origines et développement de l'art international indépendant, July 30–October 31, 1937, no. 22, as Les Rochers de Bibémus, 1900z-01, lent by Henri Matisse.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 54, ill.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cinq années enrichissement du Patrimoine national 1975-1980: donations, acquisitions, dations, November 15, 1980–March 2, 1981, no. 206, ill., as Rochers près des grottes au-dessus de Château Noir.
Musée Saint-Georges, Liège, Belgium, Cézanne, March 12–May 9, 1982, no. 47, ill., as Rochers près des grottes au-dessus de Château Noir, c. 1904. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 12–August 31, 1982 (exhibition catalogue; preface by Denis Coutagne).
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne, June 12–August 31, 1982, no. 12, ill.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne, June 16–September 2, 1990, no. 34, fig. 245.
Hôtel de la région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Marseille, France, Peintres de la couleur en Provence 1875-1920, January 28–April 28, 1995, pp. 338-339, as Rochers près des grottes au-dessus de Château Noir. Traveled to: Musée du Luxembourg, Patis, France, May 15–August 15, 1995.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 190, ill. shown in Paris only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Metropolitan art museum, Tokyo, La Modernité : collections du musée d’Orsay, January 14–March 31, 1996, no. 145, ill., as Rochers près des grottes au-dessus de Château Noir. Traveled to: City Museum, Kobe, Japan, April 13–June 23, 1996.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia, Paris in the Late 19th Century, November 30, 1996–February 23, 1997, listed p. 182, ill. 53, as Rochers près des grottes au-dessus de Château Noir. Traveled to: Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, March 15–May 22, 1997.
L'Annonciade, Saint-Tropez, France, Les chemins du cubisme, July 17–October 17, 1999, catalogue entry p. 44, ill.
Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso, Italy, L'Oro e l'azzurro: I colori del Sud da Cézanne a Bonnard, October 10, 2003–March 7, 2004, no. 40, ill., as Rocce vicino alle grotte sopra.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 112, ill. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia, Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne & beyond, Post-impressionism from the Musée d'Orsay, December 4, 2009–April 5, 2010, no. 35, ill., as Rochers près des grottes au-dessus de Château Noir.
National Art Center, Tokyo, Post-impressionnisme: 115 chefs-d’œuvre de la collection du Musée d’Orsay, May 26–August 16, 2010, no. 40, ill., as Rochers près des grottes au-dessus de Château Noir.
de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay, September 2010–January 2011, no. 25, ill., as Rochers près des grottes au-dessus de Château Noir.
Centro Cutural do Brasil, Sao Paulo, Impressionismo, Paris e a modernida: Obras-primas Musée d'Orsay, August 4–October 7, 2012, no. 75, ill., as Rochers près des grottes au-dessus de Château Noir. Traveled to: Centro Cutural do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, October 22, 2012–January 13, 2013; Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, February 12–May 5, 2013.
Fundación Cultural MAPFRE, Madrid, Impresionistas y postimpresionistas: el nacimiento del arte moderno, February 2–May 5, 2013, no. 26, ill., as Rochers près des grottes au-dessus de Château Noir.
Musée Gustave Courbet, Ornans, France, Courbet/Cézanne: La vérité en peinture, June 29–October 14, 2013, no. 41, ill., as Rochers près des grottes au-dessus du Château Noir.
National Gallery, Singapore, Colours of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay, October 16, 2017–March 11, 2018, pl. 64 p. 164, as Rochers près des grottes au-dessus du Château Noir. Traveled to: Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, March 29–July 29, 2018.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings, March 7–June 14, 2020, no. 22, ill., as Rocks 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
Denis, Maurice. "Le dessin de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 5, no. 2 (February 1924), ill. p. 39, as Paysage, (Coll. Henri Matisse).
Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1936, fig. 21.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 786, ill. vol. II, as Rochers de Bibémus.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 28, fig. 33.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 170, p. 266, ill.
Loran, Erle. Cézanne's Composition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943, p. 118, pl. XXXIV (with photograph of the motif).
Auzas, Pierre. Peintures de Cézanne. Paris: Editions du Chêne, 1946, pl. XV (in color), as Rochers de Bitémus [sic], dated 1900–04.
Rewald, John. "Cézanne's Last Motifs at Aix." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 91, ill. (with photograph of the motif).
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 56.
Compin, Isabelle et Anne Roquebert. Catalogue sommaire illustré des peintures du musée du Louvre et du musée d'Orsay. 3, École Française, A-K. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1986, p. 116, ill., as Rochers près des grottes au-dessus du Château Noir, c. 1904.
Coutagne, Denis. "Les paysages." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 27 (cropped).
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 143.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 106, fig. 76, with photograph of motif, fig. 75, as Rochers près des 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. 909, ill. vol. 2, as Rochers près des grottes au-dessus du Château Noir.
Schmidt, Katharina. "Cézannes letztes Stilleben." In Cézanne, Picasso, Braque: Der Beginn des kubistischen Stillebens. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 1998. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 14.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 109, ill. with photo of motif (c. 1935), p. 108, as Rochers près des grottes au-dessus du Château Noir.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 6; vol. 2, p. 20, as Rochers près des grottes.
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. 185-188, as Rocks near the Caves above the Château Noir.
Novotny, Fritz. Paul Cézanne: Gesammelte Schriften zu seinem Werk und Materialien aus dem Nachlaß. Introduction by Gabriel Ramin Schor (editor), Agnes Blaha (assistance). Vienna: Klever, 2011, fig. 33.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 179, fig. 67b, with black and white photo of motif, fig. 67a, as Rochers près des grottes au-dessus du Château Noir.
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 230, ill.
Record last updated September 27, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Rochers près des grottes au-dessus du Château Noir, c.1904 (FWN 338)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=883 (accessed on May 20, 2025).
