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 59
Paysage avec moulin à eau
c.1871
Alternate titles: Berglandschaft; Landscape; Landschaft; Les rochers; Paysage
Rewald (183): c.1871; Venturi revised: c.1870; Venturi (48): c.1871; Rivière: c.1872–73; Gowing: (London) c.1871
Oil on canvas
16 1/4 x 21 3/8 in. (41.3 x 54.3 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3907, huile; paysage sombre; q.q. arbres couronnant les crêtes, 41 x 55 cm (75 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 471, Annotated by Cezanne's son: L'Estaque 1870
Provenance
Exhibition History
Hugo Perls, Berlin, Französische Malerei des XIX. Jahrhunderts, Zweite Ausstellung, January–February 1927, no. 2 (?), as Landschaft.
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, Cézanne, September 23–October 24, 1954, no. 11, as Landscape, lent by Yale.
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Monticelli: His Contemporaries, His Influence, October 27, 1978–January 7, 1979, no. 82, fig. 56. Traveled to: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, January 27–March 11, 1979; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., April 21–May 27, 1979; Rijksmus Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, June 28–September 2, 1979.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 58, 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.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 40, ill., (dated 1866–71), shown in Washington only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Published References
Moderne Galerie Heinrich Tannhäuser, München: Nachtragswerk III zur großen Katalogausgabe 1916. Munich: Moderne Galerie Tannhauser, 1918, listed p. 118, ill. p. 30, as Berglandschaft.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 100.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 118, as Landschaft, c. 1871.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 200, listed.
Scheffler, Karl. "Breslauer Kunstleben." Kunst und Künstler 21, no. 4 (1923), p. 132, ill. p.138.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 48, ill. vol. II, as Paysage.
Forster-Hahn, Françoise. French and School of Paris Paintings in the Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968, p. 3, pl. 14.
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. 183, ill. vol. 2, as Paysage avec moulin à eau.
Kropmanns, Peter, and Uwe Fleckner. "Von kontinentaler Bedeutung: Gottlieb Friedrich Reber und seine Sammlungen." In Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: französische Kunst in deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, edited by Andrea Pophanken and Felix Billeter. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001, listed p. 387.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 44; vol. 2, p. 51, as Paysage avec moulin à eau.
Clarke, Michael. "Finding Cézanne, His Place in the French Landscape Tradition." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 9.
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Oeuvre de Cezanne à L'Estaque, Huiles – Aquarelles – Dessins, 1864–1885. Marseille: Éditions Gaussen, 2019, fig. 25 (discussion p. 30), suggests that the subject is not a water mill, but a hut for a "chaufournier" (lime burner) such as one finds in the hills of the Nerthe.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 68, ill., as Les rochers.
Additional material / links
- Wendland (and others) auction 1931 (digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de)
Record last updated March 30, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Paysage avec moulin à eau, c.1871 (FWN 59)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=189 (accessed on April 26, 2024).
