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Catalogue entry

FWN 1013
Rochers
1867–70
Alternate titles: Aquarelle; Impression d'après nature; Felsen; Landschaft mit Felsen; Rocks
Rewald (W10)
Graphite, watercolor, and gouache on paper with narrow strip added at left
9 1/16 x 13 9/16 in. (23 x 34.5 cm)
Städel Museum, Graphische Sammlung, Frankfurt am Main (SG 441 (Gemäldeinventar))

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Provenance
Victor Chocquet, Paris;
Mme veuve Chocquet (née Marie Buisson);
Chocquet Collection, Galerie G. Petit, Paris, France, July 1–4, 1899, no. 107 (as Roches parmi les bruyères, en forêt)
Olivier Sainsère, Paris
Christian Tetzen-Lund, Copenhagen;
Tetzen-Lund Collection, Den Frie (auction), Copenhagen, May 18–19, 1925, no. 74
Marcel Goldschmidt, Frankfurt am Main
Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main (1929);
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Exhibition History
1877 Paris
6, rue Le Peletier, Paris, Troisième exposition de peinture, opening April 4, 1877, no. 30 or 31, as Aquarelle; Impression d'après nature.
1931 Frankfurt am Main
Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Vom Abbild zum Sinnbild, June 3–July 3, 1931, no. 263, as Felsen, tentative identfication, lent by Private collection.
1936 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 62, as Felsen, c. 1870, lent by Private collection, Frankfurt a. M.
2001–02 Frankfurt am Main
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Von Linie und Farbe: Französische Zeichnungen des 19. Jahrhunderts aus der Graphischen Sammlung im Städel und aus Frankfurter Privatbesitz, January 9, 2001–February 17, 2002, no. 39, ill., as Landschaft mit Felsen.
2012–13 Budapest
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 21, ill.
2015 Winterthur
Sammlung Oskar Reinhart "am Römerholz," Winterthur, Switzerland, Victor Chocquet: Freund und Sammler der Impressionisten, Renoir, Cézanne, Monet, Manet, February 20–June 7, 2015, no. 29, ill.
2017 Basel
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 158, ill.
2020 Princeton and traveling
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings, March 7–June 14, 2020, fig. 19, as Rocks, dated 1867–68, to be shown in London only. Traveled to: Royal Academy, London, July 12–October 18, 2020 (N.B. This venue was cancelled due to 2020 coronavirus).
Published References
Marées-Gesellschaft 1921
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und seine Ahnen: Faksimiles nach Aquarellen, Feder- und anderen Zeichnungen von Tintoretto, Greco, Poussin, Corot, Delacroix, Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1921, pl. VIII.
Thomsen 1934
Thomsen, Oluf. Christian Tetzen-Lunds Samling of moderne fransk Malerkunst. Copenhagen: Tetzen-Lund, 1934, no. 7 of checklist, pl. 20.
Rewald 1969
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), p. 85, no. 107.
Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 10, ill.
Düchting 1989
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 95, ill.
Freudenberg 2001
Freudenberg, Inken. Der Zweifler Cézanne. Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg, 2001, pl. 20.
Simms 2008
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 32, fig. 22.
Lloyd 2015
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 87, fig. 46.
Marchesseau 2017
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 136, ill.
Elderfield 2020a
Elderfield, John. "Excavations." In Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Exhibition catalogue, p. 29, fig. 19, as Rocks, dated 1867–68.

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Record last updated December 5, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Rochers, 1867–70 (FWN 1013), with narrow strip added at left." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=969 (accessed on April 19, 2024).