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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)
Catalogue entry
© 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
(Auguste Pellerin, Paris?)
(Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris?)
(Ambroise Vollard, Paris?) (March 27, 1911)
Hugo von Reininghaus, Vienna
Galerie Barbazanges, Paris
Barnes Foundation, Merion and Philadelphia (July 7, 1923)
Published References
Barnes and de Mazia 1933
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Henri-Matisse. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1933, pp. 54, 456.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 321, ill. vol. II, as Place de village.Barnes and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 87, p. 59, p. 210, ill.Cogniat 1939a
Cogniat, Raymond. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1939, pl. 38.Rewald 1996
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 2011
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 2015a
Chédeville, François. "Identification de la position de Cézanne peignant la place de la préfecture à Melun.".Dombrowski, Ireson and Patry 2021
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 and Buckley 2021
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 2023
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. "Cézanne nostalgique: Nostalgia, Memory, Illusion." Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Autumn 2023, fig. 10.Notes
Scholars have recently identified this view as in Melun, where Cézanne lived at 2, place de la Préfecture in 1879–80, hence the earlier date from Rewald.
Photo: Courtesy Alain Mothe
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 May 3, 2024).
