The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
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Brian Merrett; © The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
FWN 43
La Route tournante en Provence
c.1866 (possibly later)
Alternate titles: Bend in a Road in Provence; Route tournante en Provence; Strada in curva in Provenza; Weg zwischen grünen Bäumen
Rewald (85): 1866 (possibly later); Venturi revised: c.1870; Venturi (53): 1867–70; Cooper: (London) c.1868
Oil on canvas
35 13/16 x 28 in. (91 x 71 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3445, peinture manière noire. un chemin montant. à côté d'un grand arbre se détachant sur un ciel bleu, 92 x 73 cm (200 frs)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4057, Paysage noir (route et grand arbre), 92 x 73 cm (200 frs)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Sonderausstellung Paul Cézanne, April 22–June 15, 1904, no number, as Weg zwischen grünen Bäumen.
Art Association, Montreal, The Sir William Van Horne Collection, October 16–November 5, 1933, no. 146b.
Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, French Impressionists, March 24–April 19, 1953, no. 48.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 5, ill. lent by Montreal.
Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada Collects: European Painting, 1860–1960, January 19–February 21, 1960, no. 66.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, European Paintings in Canadian Collections: Corot to Picasso, February 9–March 4, 1962, no. 22.
Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Perspective in Painting, 1964.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 36, ill. Traveled to: Musée d'Orsay, Cézanne: les années de jeunesse 1859-1872, Paris, September 19, 1988–January 1, 1989; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., January 29–April 30, 1989.
Montreal Museum of Art, Montreal, Discerning Tastes: Montreal Collectors, 1880–1920, December 8, 1989–February 15, 1990, no. 6, ill., pp. 61–63.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 7, ill.
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne und die Moderne, October 10, 1999–January 9, 2000, no. 1, ill., p. 30, as La Route tournante en Provence.
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni, March 7–July 7, 2002, listed p. 102, ill., as Strada in curva in Provenza, lent by Montreal Museum.
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseille, France, Right Under the Sun, Landscape in Provence: From Classicism to Modernism (1750–1920), May 18–August 21, 2005, no. 25, ill., p. 168, as La Route tournante en Provence. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, September 22, 2005–January 8, 2006.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 15, ill., (dated c. 1868). 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. 2, ill.
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, Cezanne et les Maîtres, rêve d'Italie, February 27–July 5, 2020, no. 49, ill. lent by Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montreal.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 53, ill. vol. II, as Route tournante en Provence.
Hubbard, Robert Hamilton. European Paintings in Canadian Collections,vol. II. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1962, p. 150, listed.
Turner, Evan H. "Peintres français du XIXe siècle au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal." La Revue Française, no. 148 (January 1963), ill.
Funke, Mary-Louise, and Germain Lefebvre. "De Daumier à Rouault." M, no. 4 (March 1970), p. 10, ill. p. 18.
Bourget, Jean-Loup. "Le Centenaire de l'impressionnisme." Vie des Arts 19, no. 76 (Autumn 1974), fig. 9.
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. 85, ill. vol. 2, as La Route tournante en Provence.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Paul Cézanne, 22. April bis 15. Juni 1904." Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1901-1905. vol. 2, "Man steht da und staunt". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2011, p. 518, ill.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Kollektion Paul Cézanne: 17. November bis 12. Dezember 1909." Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1908-1910. vol. 4, "Ganz eigenartige neue Werte". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2013, p. 296, ill.
Prakash, A.K. "The Canadian Scene: Montreal Dealers and Collectors." In Impressionism in Canada: A Journey of Rediscovery, Prakash, A.K, editor Rosemary Shipton. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche, 2015, p. 201, pl. 5.21 p. 204, as Bend in a Road in Provence, c. 1868.
Coutagne, Denis. "Chemin-Cezanne." In Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 21, fig. 3.
Record last updated November 11, 2014. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Route tournante en Provence, c.1866 (possibly later) (FWN 43)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=99 (accessed on October 10, 2024).
