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 374
La Route tournante (Mennecy)
c.1904
Alternate titles: La Route tournante; Route tournante
Rewald (921): c.1904; Venturi revised: c.1900; Venturi (1532): 1900–1906
Oil on canvas
28 11/16 x 36 3/16 in. (73 x 92 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, Princes Gate Collection, 1981, no. 10, pl. XVIII.
The Courtauld Gallery, London, The Courtauld Cézannes, June 26–October 5, 2008, no. 10, ill., pp. 106–09 (dated c. 1905), as Route tournante.
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne et Paris, October 12, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 64, ill., p. 145, as La Route tournante, lent by Courtauld Institute.
Tate, London, Kenneth Clark Looking for Civilisation, May 19–August 10, 2014, no. 49, lent by Courtauld Gallery.
KODE Art Museums, Bergen, Norway, Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Courtauld at KODE Art Museums, July 16–October 10, 2021, no. 10, ill. c. 1905.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. "Sur les dernières années de Cézanne." Minotaure, no. 9 (1936), fig. 3.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1532, ill. vol. II, as Route tournante.
Seilern, Antoine. Paintings and Drawings of Continental Schools Other than Flemish and Italian at 56 Princes Gate, London. London: Shenval Press, 1961, no. 209, pl. XXXIV.
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. 921, ill. vol. 2, as La Route tournante.
Robbins, Anne. Cézanne in Britain. London: National Gallery, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 94, as La Route tournante, listed.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 344; vol. 2, p. 225, as La Route tournante.
Coutagne, Denis, and Raymond Hurtu. "Paysages des années 1888–1905." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 145, ill., as La Route tournante, dated circa 1905.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed., Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 121, ill., as La Route tournante, with old postcard view of Mennecy (p. 120).
Vintage postcard view of the motif.
Photo: Courtesy Alain Mothe
Additional material / links
- Colm Tóibín talk at the Courtauld Institute, December 2008 (theguardian.com)
Record last updated March 14, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Route tournante (Mennecy), c.1904 (FWN 374)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=894 (accessed on January 18, 2025).
