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, 22, no. 2 (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 December 21, 2024).
