The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
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© The Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania, USA/ The Bridgeman Art Library
FWN 170
L'Église Saint-Aspais vue de la place de la Préfecture à Melun
1879–80
Alternate titles: Le Mail; Place de la préfecture à Melun avec vue sur l'église Saint-Aspais; Place de village; The Church of Saint-Aspais Seen from the Place de la Préfecture at Melun
Rewald (495): c.1881; Venturi revised: 1880–81; Venturi (321): 1879–82
Oil on canvas
20 7/8 x 25 3/8 in. (53 x 64.4 cm)
Provenance
Published References
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Henri-Matisse. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1933, pp. 54, 456.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 321, ill. vol. II, as Place de village.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 87, p. 59, p. 210, 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. 495, ill. vol. 2, as Place de village.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed., Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 85, ill., as Place de la préfecture à Melun avec vue sur l'église Saint-Aspais, dated1880 (cf. footnote 27).
Chédeville, François. "Identification de la position de Cézanne peignant la place de la préfecture à Melun.".
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, no. 17, pp. 120–23 (figs. 2 and 4, details), as The Church of Saint-Aspais Seen from the Place de la Préfecture at Melun (catalogue notes by F. Ruppen).
Shutova, Anya, and Barbara Buckley. "Materials and Techniques: A Study of Cézanne's Paintings in the Barnes Foundation." In Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, figs. 11a and 11b (showing the graphite underdrawing).
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. "Cézanne nostalgique: Nostalgia, Memory, Illusion." Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Autumn 2023, fig. 10.
Record last updated January 4, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Église Saint-Aspais vue de la place de la Préfecture à Melun, 1879–80 (FWN 170)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=484 (accessed on April 20, 2024).
