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 102
La Route; Le Mur d'enceinte
1875–76
Alternate titles: Die Landstrasse; La Route; La Route; also known as Le Mur d'enceinte; Le Mur d'enceinte; Paysage; Etude d'après nature; The Road
Rewald (275): 1875–76; Venturi revised: c.1876; Venturi (158): 1875–76; Gowing: c.1876
Oil on canvas
19 11/16 x 25 5/8 in. (50 x 65 cm)
Signed lower left in red: P. Cezanne
Provenance
Exhibition History
6, rue Le Peletier, Paris, Troisième exposition de peinture, opening April 4, 1877, no. 22, 23, 24 or 25, as Paysage; Etude d'après nature.
Bruno and Paul Cassirer, Berlin, III. Jahrgang der Kunst-Austellungen, Winter 1900/1901, November 2 - beginning of December 1900, no. 6, as Die Landstrasse, lent by Durand-Ruel, not for sale.
Grossherzoglichen Museum für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe, Weimar, Monet, Manet, Renoir, Cézanne, March 1904, Durand-Ruel (not for sale).
Grafton Galleries, London, Pictures by Boudin, Cézanne, Degas, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, January 16-February 18, 1905; extended until February 25, no. 40, (dated 1872), as The Road, lent by Galerie Durand-Ruel.
Château de Rohan, Strasbourg, France, Art français contemporain, March 2–April 2, 1907, no. 47.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, December 1–18, 1920, no. 10, as La Route, lent by Durand-Ruel.
Chambre syndicale de la Curiosité, 18, rue de la Ville-l'Evêque, Paris, L'Art français au service de la science française, April 25–May 15, 1923, no. 165, as La Route, lent by Durand-Ruel.
Galerie Durand-Ruel, New York, Cézanne, Gauguin, Redon, March 22–April 15, 1932, no. 4, as La Route.
Palace of Fine Arts, Treasure Island, San Francisco, Golden Gate International Exposition, May 25–September 29, 1940, no. 235, (a painting by Gauguin, no. 268 in the exhibition, was erroneously illustrated, p. 78, in place of this work), as The Road, lent by Durand-Ruel, New York.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Aspects of French Painting from Cézanne to Picasso, January 15–March 2, 1941, no. 10, ill.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1961, no. 19, lent by Mrs. John Barry Ryan.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Summer Loan Exhibition: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture from Private Collections, July–September 1967, no. 17, lent by Mr. John Barry Ryan.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, One Hundred Years of Impressionism, April 2–May 9, 1970, no. 30, ill.
Published References
Lecomte, Georges. "Paul Cézanne." Revue de l'Art 1 (December 9, 1899), p. 83, ill., as La Route.
W.[arncke], P.[aul]. "Sammlungen und Ausstellungen." Kunstchronik: Wochenschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe Neue Folge XII, no. 7 (November 29, 1900), col. 106, as Die Landstrasse.
Dewhurst, Wynford. "Impressionist Painting. Its Genesis and Development." Studio (London) 39, no. 121 (April 1903), p. 167, ill.
Dewhurst, Wynford. Impressionist Painting, Its Genesis and Development. London: George Newnes Ltd, ill, between pp. 16 and 17, as La Route.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Cézanne und sein Kreis: Paul Cézanne." In Entwicklungsgeschichte der modernen Kunst: vergleichende Betrachtungen der bildenden Künste, als Beitrag zu einer neuen Aesthetik vol. 1. Stuttgart: Jul. Hoffmann, 1904, pl. 63 (vol. 3), as La Route.
T.[abarant], [Adolphe]. "Le Congrès d'histoire de l'art chez Durand-Ruel." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 2, no. 20 (October 15, 1921), ill. p. 544.
Nirdlinger, Virginia. "On View in the New York Galleries." Parnassus 4, no. 4 (April 1932), p. 10, mentioned.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 158, ill. vol. II, as Le Mur d'enceinte.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 56.
Bénédite, Léonce. La peinture au 19e siècle d'après les chefs-d'oeuvre des maîtres et les meilleurs tableaux des principaux artistes. Paris: Flammarion, n.d. [1940], p. 183, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Impressionists and Symbolists: Manet, Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Scribner, 1950, fig. 122.
Gowing, Lawrence. "Notes on the Development of Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 98, no. 639 (June 1956), p. 187.
Venturi, Lionello. Four Steps toward Modern Art: Giorgione, Caravaggio, Manet, Cézanne. New York: Columbia University Press, 1956, fig. 23.
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), p. 50; p. 83, no. 14.
Perucchi-Petri, Ursula. "War Cézanne Impressionist? Die Begegnung zwischen Cézanne und Pissarro." Du 35, no. 9 (September 1975), p. 60, ill.
Bourges, Marianne R. Itinéraires de Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Ville d'Aix-en-Provence, 1982, ill.
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. 275, ill. vol. 2, as La Route; also known as Le Mur d'enceinte.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Zur Rezeptionsgeschichte Cézannes in Deutschland." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel,
Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 132, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 104; vol. 2, p. 86, as Le Mur d'enceinte.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Sammlungen Paul Cézanne, Louis Corinth, […], 2. November bis Anfang Dezember 1900." Kunstsalon Bruno & Paul Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1898-1901. vol. 1, «Das Beste aus aller Welt zeigen». Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2011, p. 344, ill.
Warman, Jayne. "Chocquet und Cézanne – eine einzigartige Freundschaft." In Victor Chocquet – Freund und Sammler der Impressionisten, Renoir, Cézanne, Monet, Manet. Bern and Munich: Bundesamt für Kultur and Hirmer Verlag, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, p. 110, n.16, French edition: p. 106, n.16.
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. "La Route; Le Mur d'enceinte, 1875–76 (FWN 102)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=276 (accessed on April 19, 2024).
