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 133
Paysage avec route et clocher (Île de France près de Melun?)
1879–80
Alternate titles: La montagne Sainte-Victoire et le pilon du roi; Le pilon du roi; Le pilon du roi, vu de Bellevue; Le Pilon du Roi, vue de Bellevue; Paysage d'île de France; Provençal Landscape; Vue aux environs d'Aix-en-Provence
Rewald (400): 1879–80; Venturi revised: 1883–85; Cézanne fils: Aix, 1880–85; Venturi (416): 1884–85
Oil on canvas
21 3/8 x 25 5/8 in. (54.5 x 65 cm)
Vollard W stockbook: no. 1334, paysage; huile, 54 x 65 (120,000)
Vollard archives: photo no. 303 and 101b, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Aix 1880–85
Provenance
Private collection, Japan (1994)
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition Paul Cézanne (au profit de la caisse du monument Cézanne), March 3–24, 1924, tentative identification.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition rétrospective Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) au profit de la caisse du Monument Cézanne, June 1–30, 1926, shown in an installation photo in Dauberville 2020, p. 117.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, May 18–29, 1931.
Galerie Charpentier, Paris, Beautés de la Provence, December 1947–January 1948.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 23, ill. lent by Davis.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1961, no. 10.
Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, September 18–October 7, 1986, no. 17, ill. 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.
Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama, Ibaraki, Japan, Cézanne, October 4–November 30, 1997, no. 17, ill., (dated 1884–85), as Le Pilon du Roi, vue de Bellevue.
National Art Center, Tokyo, Cézanne: Paris-Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012, no. 23, ill.
Published References
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, pp. 60-61, fig. 25, pl. XVIII.
Alexandre, Arsène. La collection Canonne: une histoire en action de l'Impressionnisme et de ses suites. Paris: Bernheim-Jeune et Renaissance de l'Art, 1930, ill. between pp. 40-41, as Vue aux environs d'Aix-en-Provence.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 416, ill. vol. II, as Le Pilon du Roi, vue de Bellevue.
"[auction result]." Die Weltkunst 13, no. 9 (March 5, 1939), ill. p. 3, as Le pilon du roi, 1884.
Imbourg, Pierre. "Les grandes ventes: Une toile de Cézanne adjugée 542.000 francs." L'Oeuvre (Paris), February 19, 1939, p. 2, ill. p. 1, as Le pilon du roi, vu de Bellevue.
Auzas, Pierre. Peintures de Cézanne. Paris: Editions du Chêne, 1946, pl. XI (in color), as Le Pilon du Roi, vue de Bellevue, dated 1884–85.
Vaudoyer, Jean-Louis. Les Impressionnistes de Manet à Cézanne. Paris: Nouvelles éditions françaises, 1948, p. 66, ill.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 60, pl. XVIII fig. 25, as Provençal Landscape.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 59, ill.
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 45, pl. 17.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 75, 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. 400, ill. vol. 2, as Paysage d'île de France.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 115; vol. 2, p. 90, as La montagne Sainte-Victoire et le pilon du roi.
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Oeuvre de Cezanne à L'Estaque, Huiles – Aquarelles – Dessins, 1864–1885. Marseille: Éditions Gaussen, 2019, fig. 145, 147 (detail) (discussion p. 122), as Paysage avec route et clocher (Île de France près de Melun?).
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 146, ill., as Paysage d'île de France, installation photographs from 1910 exhibition, p. 86, and 1931 exhibition, p.123.
Notes
The subject of this painting has often been assigned to the Pilon du Roi, although more recent scholarship has rejected that designation. Machotka has suggested it might be in the South, perhaps at Les Revenants, near Bouc-Bel-Air. Rewald and Coutagne think it is probably in the North, perhaps in the area of Melun, where Cézanne lived from April 1879-March 1880.
Record last updated May 17, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Paysage avec route et clocher (Île de France près de Melun?), 1879–80 (FWN 133)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=395 (accessed on April 19, 2024).
