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 346
La Route tournante; also known as Matinée de printemps à Saint-Antonin
1902–06
Alternate titles: La route tournante; Matinée de printemps à Saint-Antonin; Route ensoleillée; Route tournante; The Bend in the Road
Rewald (930): 1902–06; Venturi revised: c 1900; Venturi (790): 1900–1906
Oil on canvas
32 x 25 1/2 in. (81.3 x 64.8 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 108bis, as Route ensoleillée, lent by Vollard; dated circa 1900–04.
Bignou Gallery, New York, Masterpieces by 19th Century French Painters, April 11–30, 1938, no. 2.
W. Scott & Sons, Montreal, Paintings by French Masters: Delacroix to Dufy, October–November 1938, no. 3.
Bignou Gallery, New York, A Selection of 19th and 20th Century French Painting, June–September 1939, no. 6.
Bignou Gallery, New York, Paintings and Watercolors by Cézanne, April 1–26, 1940, no. 8.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Aspects of French Painting from Cézanne to Picasso, January 15–March 2, 1941, no. 12.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Pictures Collected by Yale Alumni, May 8–June 18, 1956, no. 112, ill.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 50 Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bareiss, April 23–May 11, 1958, no. 11, ill.
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich, Sammlung Walter Bareiss, Summer 1965, no number, ill., p. 14, pl. V.
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. 44, pl. 80. 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).
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Gifts to the Nation: Selected Acquisitions from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, July 20–October 17, 1986.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 140, ill. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 14, ill. probable loan.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 790, ill. vol. II, as Route tournante.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 56.
Lowe, Jeanette. "Cézanne in Varied Aspects: Some Unfamiliar Work at Bignou Gallery." Art News 38, no. 28 (April 13, 1940), p. 11, ill.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 84, as Route tournante, 1900-1906.
"The Art Acquired by Yalemen.", ill.
Novotny, Fritz. "The Late Landscape Paintings." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 109.
Wetzel, Christoph. Paul Cézanne: Leben u. Werk. Stuttgart/Zurich: Belser, 1984, frontispiece.
National Gallery of Art Annual Report (1986), p. 35, listed.
Rewald, John. "Paintings by Paul Cézanne in the Mellon Collection." In Essays in Honor of Paul Mellon, Collector and Benefactor, edited by John Wilmerding. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1986, pp. 317–18, fig. 19.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 11, ill.
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. 930, ill. vol. 2, as La Route tournante; also known as Matinée de printemps à Saint-Antonin.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 331; vol. 2, p. 220, as La route tournante.
Callen, Anthea. The Work of Art: Plein-air Painting and Artistic Identiy in the Nineteenth-century France. London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2015, pp. 223, 263, fig. 196 p. 261, as The Bend in the Road, 1900-06.
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 224, ill.
Record last updated September 18, 2018. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Route tournante; also known as Matinée de printemps à Saint-Antonin, 1902–06 (FWN 346)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=903 (accessed on April 19, 2024).
