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 147
La Plaine de Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône vue prise des carrières du Chou
c.1880
Alternate titles: Auvers-sur-Oise; Dans la Vallée de l'Oise; In the Oise Valley; La Vallée de l'Oise; Paysage; Paysage d'Auvers; Paysage de la vallée de l'Oise; The Plain of Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône; The Valley of the Oise; Valley of the Oise
Rewald (434): c.1880; Venturi revised: 1880–81; Venturi (311): 1879–82; Machotka et al: c.1882
Oil on canvas
28 5/16 x 35 13/16 in. (72 x 91 cm)
Signed lower right: P. Cezanne
Vollard archives: photo no. 97, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Melun 1878
Private collection
Provenance
Exhibition History
Société des artistes indépendants, Grandes serres de l'Exposition universelle (Cours-la-reine), Paris, 18e exposition, March 29–May 5, 1902, no. 323, as Paysage, lent by M.P.S[ignac].
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910, no. 39, as Paysage d'Auvers, lent by P. Signac.
Galerie d'art des édition G. Crès & Cie, Paris, 'Indépendants': œuvres d'artistes ayant exposé à la Société des artistes indépendants de 1884 à 1904, December 18, 1919–January 20, 1920, no. 11, as Auvers-sur-Oise, 1902, lent by Paul Signac.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, December 1–18, 1920, no. 27, as Auvers-sur-Oise, lent by Signac.
Société des artistes indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, 50e exposition - Centenaire du peintre indépendant Paul Cézanne, March 17–April 10, 1939, no. 10, as Paysage de la vallée de l'Oise, lent by Private collection.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 67, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–1885, June 26–September 12, 2005, no. 103, ill., p. 210 (dated c. 1881–82), as La Vallée de l'Oise, lent by Private collection, Paris. Traveled to: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, October 20, 2005–January 16, 2006; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, February 27–May 28, 2006 (Cézanne et Pissarro 1865-1885).
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 30, ill. lent by Private collection.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Signac collectionneur, October 12–February 13, 2021, no. 45, ill., as La Plaine de Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône vue prise des carrières du Chou.
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom, Camille Pissarro: Father of Impressionism, February 18–June 12, 2022, no. 73, ill., as Valley of the Oise, c. 1880, Private collection.
Published References
L. "Rétrospective des Indépendants." L'Ere nouvelle (Paris), January 25, 1920, p. 6, as un paysage d'Anvers.
René-Jean. "Petites Expositions." Comoedia (Paris), January 10, 1920, p. 2, as Paysage.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, p. 42, pl. p. 42, as Auvers-sur-Oise.
Guenne, Jacques. "Entretien avec Paul Signac: Président du Salon des Indépendants." L'Art vivant (Paris) 1, no. 6 (March 20, 1925), mentioned p. 4, as un paysage d’Auvers-sur-Oise.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, p. 66, pl. [13] hors texte, as Auvers-sur-Oise.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 311, ill. vol. II, as Dans la Vallée de l'Oise.
Rewald, John. Post-Impressionism: From Van Gogh to Gauguin. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1956, p. 46, 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. 434, ill. vol. 2, as La Vallée de l'Oise.
Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 38, fig. 30, as In the Oise Valley.
Wildenstein, Daniel. Gauguin, A Savage in the Making, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings (1873–1888). Paris and Milan: Wildenstein Institute and Skira editore, 2002, vol. 1, pp. 96–98, nos. 85 and 86, as The Plain of Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône.
Pissarro, Joachim, and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts. Pissarro: Critical Catalogue of Paintings. Paris: Wildenstein Institute, 2005, vol. 2, pp. 462–63, no. 695.
Pissarro, Joachim. Cézanne/Pissarro, Johns/Rauschenberg: Comparative Studies on Intersubjectivity in Modern Art. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, fig. 4 p. 15, as La Vallée de l'Oise, 1881-2, Private collection.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 167; vol. 2, p. 118, as La Vallée de l'Oise.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed., Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 77, ill., as La Vallée de l'Oise.
Warman, Jayne. "Cézanne peintre des peintres." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 165, fig. 81, as La Vallée de l'Oise.
Shiff, Richard. "Morality, Materiality, Apples." In The World Is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne. Hamilton, Ontario: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 161, fig. 5, as The Valley of the Oise.
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 24.
Camille Pissarro, Les Carrières du Chou, Pontoise, 1882.
Paul Gauguin, Chou Quarries at Pontoise II, 1882. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Georges Manzana-Pissarro, Impressionist Picnic (Guillaumin, Pissarro, Gauguin, Cézanne, Madame Cézanne and Manzana-Pissarro). Pen and ink on paper, inscribed "Souvenir de l'été 1881."
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Plaine de Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône vue prise des carrières du Chou, c.1880 (FWN 147)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=426 (accessed on April 16, 2024).
