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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)
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Adaline Van Horne Bequest)

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (Apr. 3, 1911)
William Van Horne, Montreal;
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal (1945)
Exhibition History
1904 Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Sonderausstellung Paul Cézanne, April 22–June 15, 1904, no number, as Weg zwischen grünen Bäumen.
1933 Montreal
Art Association, Montreal, The Sir William Van Horne Collection, October 16–November 5, 1933, no. 146b.
1939 Montreal
Art Association, Montreal, Nineteenth Century Landscape Painting, 1939, no. 56.
1953 Vancouver
Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, French Impressionists, March 24–April 19, 1953, no. 48.
1959e New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 5, ill. lent by Montreal.
1960 Montreal
Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada Collects: European Painting, 1860–1960, January 19–February 21, 1960, no. 66.
1962 Ottawa
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, European Paintings in Canadian Collections: Corot to Picasso, February 9–March 4, 1962, no. 22.
1964 Montreal
Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Perspective in Painting, 1964.
1988–89a London and traveling
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.
1989–90 Montreal
Montreal Museum of Art, Montreal, Discerning Tastes: Montreal Collectors, 1880–1920, December 8, 1989–February 15, 1990, no. 6, ill., pp. 61–63.
1993 Tübingen
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 7, ill.
1999–2000 Riehen/Basel
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.
2002 Rome
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.
2005–06 Marseille and traveling
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.
2006 Washington, D.C. and traveling
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.
2014a Madrid
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 2, ill.
2020 Paris
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 53, ill. vol. II, as Route tournante en Provence.
Hubbard 1962
Hubbard, Robert Hamilton. European Paintings in Canadian Collections,vol. II. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1962, p. 150, listed.
Turner 1963
Turner, Evan H. "Peintres français du XIXe siècle au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal." La Revue Française, no. 148 (January 1963), ill.
Funke and Lefebvre 1970
Funke, Mary-Louise, and Germain Lefebvre. "De Daumier à Rouault." M, no. 4 (March 1970), p. 10, ill. p. 18.
Bourget 1974
Bourget, Jean-Loup. "Le Centenaire de l'impressionnisme." Vie des Arts 19, no. 76 (Autumn 1974), fig. 9.
Naubert-Riser 1992
Naubert-Riser, Constance. Cézanne. London: Studio Editions, 1994, p. 51.
Patin 1995
Patin, Sylvie. Cézanne. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 36.
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. 85, ill. vol. 2, as La Route tournante en Provence.
Echte and Feilchenfeldt 2011b
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 and Feilchenfeldt 2013d
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 2015
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 2017
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 April 18, 2024).