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 1014
La Route montante
1867
Alternate titles: Aquarelle; Impression d'après nature; El camino; La Route; La route or La route tournante; La Route tournante; The Hilly Road
Rewald (W17); Venturi revised: 1867; Venturi (814); Rivière: 1867
Graphite, watercolor, and gouache on paper with narrow strip added at left
8 1/4 x 13 9/16 in. (21 x 34.5 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: 67 P. Cezanne
Provenance
Exhibition History
6, rue Le Peletier, Paris, Troisième exposition de peinture, opening April 4, 1877, no. 30 or 31, as Aquarelle; Impression d'après nature.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 6–17, 1914, no. 26 ?, as La Route montante.
Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan, Cézanne and Renoir, November 18–30, 1951, no. 11, ill.
Chunichi Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, Cezanne, Renoir, Redon, 1966, no. 5, ill., (frontispiece).
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 62, ill., as La Route, 1867, lent by Collection Eisei Bunko, Tokyo. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, European Landscape Painting, 1978, no. 82, ill.
Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Paul Cézanne, March 9–April 1984, no. 55, ill., as El camino, 1867, lent by The Eisei-Bunko Museum, Tokyo.
Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, September 18–October 7, 1986, no. 40, ill. lent by The Eisei Bunko, Tokyo. Traveled to: Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan, October 10–November 9, 1986; Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, November 15–December 4, 1986.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 7, ill., as La Route montante, lent by Eisei-Bunko Museum, Tokyo. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Homage to Cézanne: His Influence on the Development of Twentieth Century Painting, November 15, 2008–January 25, 2009, no. 67, ill., as La Route montante. Traveled to: Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan, February 7–April 12, 2009.
Published References
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. Cézanne. With contributions by O. Mirbeau, T. Duret, L. Werth, et al. Paris: Editions Hollande, 1914, pl. IX.
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. L'Art moderne et quelques aspects de l'art d'autrefois: cent-soixante-treize planches d'après la collection privée de MM. J. & G. Bernheim-Jeune, poèmes de Henri de Régnier , 2 vols. Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1919, pl. 40.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 197, listed, as La Route montante.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 814, ill. vol. II, as La Route.
Bernheim de Villers, Gaston. Un ami de Cézanne. Paris: Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1954, p. 27, as La Route tournante.
Musée National d'Art Occidental. Kokuritsu Seiyō Bijutsukan sōmokuroku (Catalogue du Musée National d'Art Occidental). Tokyo: Kokuritsu Seiyō Bijutsukan, 1961, no. D-39, ill.
Musée National d'Art Occidental/Kokuritsu Seiyō Bijutsukan. Guide du Musèe national d'art occidental = Guide to the National Museum of Western Art. Tokyo: Kokuritsu Seiyō Bijutsukan, 1964, listed.
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), p. 85, no. 108.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 17, ill. and color pl. 11.
Finch, Christopher. Nineteenth-Century Watercolors. New York, London, Paris: Abbeville Press, 1991, pl. 363, as The Hilly Road.
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 33, fig. 23.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 89, fig. 48.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 304, ill., as La route or La route tournante.
Record last updated April 25, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Route montante, 1867 (FWN 1014), 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=994 (accessed on May 2, 2025).
