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Catalogue entry

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)
Vollard archives: photo no. 283
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon)

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
M.F. Huot, Paris (?)
Galerie E. Bignou, Paris and New York
Mrs. Aline Barnsdall, Beverly Hills
Knoedler Galleries, New York (Mar. 14, 1952)
Richard H. Zinser, New York (1952)
Walter Bareiss, Greenwich
E.V. Thaw, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Va. (Apr. 1973);
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1985)
Exhibition History
1936c Paris
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 108bis, as Route ensoleillée, lent by Vollard; dated circa 1900–04.
1938d New York
Bignou Gallery, New York, Masterpieces by 19th Century French Painters, April 11–30, 1938, no. 2.
1938 Montreal
W. Scott & Sons, Montreal, Paintings by French Masters: Delacroix to Dufy, October–November 1938, no. 3.
1939g New York
Bignou Gallery, New York, A Selection of 19th and 20th Century French Painting, June–September 1939, no. 6.
1940e New York
Bignou Gallery, New York, Paintings and Watercolors by Cézanne, April 1–26, 1940, no. 8.
1941a Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Aspects of French Painting from Cézanne to Picasso, January 15–March 2, 1941, no. 12.
1956 New Haven
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Pictures Collected by Yale Alumni, May 8–June 18, 1956, no. 112, ill.
1958a New York
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.
1965 Munich
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich, Sammlung Walter Bareiss, Summer 1965, no number, ill., p. 14, pl. V.
1977–78 New York and traveling
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).
1986 Washington, D.C.
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.
2006 Washington, D.C. and traveling
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.
2014a Madrid
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 14, ill. probable loan.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 790, ill. vol. II, as Route tournante.
Novotny 1937
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 91.
Rewald 1937a
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 1940
Lowe, Jeanette. "Cézanne in Varied Aspects: Some Unfamiliar Work at Bignou Gallery." Art News 38, no. 28 (April 13, 1940), p. 11, ill.
Novotny 1947
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 84, as Route tournante, 1900-1906.
Life 1956
"The Art Acquired by Yalemen.", ill.
Novotny 1977
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 1984
Wetzel, Christoph. Paul Cézanne: Leben u. Werk. Stuttgart/Zurich: Belser, 1984, frontispiece.
National Gallery of Art Annual Report 1986
National Gallery of Art Annual Report (1986), p. 35, listed.
Rewald 1986a
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.
Kendall 1988
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 284, ill.
Lartigue 1995
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 11, ill.
Rewald 1996
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 2008
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 2015
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 2017
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 26, 2024).