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 269
La Maison de Bellevue
c.1890
Alternate titles: Bellevue; La casa di Bellevue; La maison Belle Vue; Maisons en Provence
Rewald (691): c.1890; Venturi revised: 1896–98; Venturi (655): 1890–94
Oil on canvas
23 5/8 x 28 11/16 in. (60 x 73 cm)
Provenance
Private collection, Geneva (1935);
Exhibition History
Durand-Ruel and Paul Rosenberg, Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, Great French Masters of the Nineteenth Century, February 12–March 10, 1934, no. 3, ill., (dated 1887), as Maisons en Provence.
Galerie Rosenberg, Paris, L'art du XIXe siècle dans un décor ancien, February 1935, Installation photograph.
Rosenberg & Helft, London, Ten French Painters of the XIXth Century, February 15–March 12, 1938, no. 2, pl. I, as Maisons en Provence, 1887.
Paul Rosenberg, Paris, Les Influences: Ingres à de Segonzac, May 3–13, May 18–June 4, 1938, no. 2, (dated 1887), as Bellevue.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Honderd jaar Fransche kunst, July 2–September 25, 1938, no. 30a, lent by C.B.
Paul Rosenberg, Paris, Exposition Cézanne (1839-1906), organisée à l'occasion de son centenaire au profit de l’œuvre de l'allaitement maternel, February 21–April 1, 1939, no. 25, ill., as La Maison de Bellevue, 1892, lent by Charles Baudry.
Musée Rath, Geneva, Trésors des collections romandes, June 26–October 3, 1954, no. 69, as La maison Belle Vue, lent by Private collection, Geneva.
Palais de Beaulieu, Lausanne, Switzerland, Chefs-d'œuvre des collections suisses: de Manet à Picasso, May 1–October 25, 1964, no. 92, ill., as La Maison de Bellevue, 1890-1892, lent by Private collection, Geneva.
Orangerie, Paris, Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections suisses de Manet à Picasso, May 10–October 2, 1967, no. 91, ill. lent by Private collection, Geneva.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 40. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso, Italy, L'Oro e l'azzurro: I colori del Sud da Cézanne a Bonnard, October 10, 2003–March 7, 2004, no. 36, ill., as La casa di Bellevue, 1890-1894.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 58, ill. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 62, ill.
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 40, ill. lent by Musées d'art et d'histoire de la Ville de Genève.
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary, Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction, October 28, 2021–February 13, 2022, no. 45, ill.
Published References
Colson, Percy. "Some Notes on Mr. Herbert Coleman's Collection." Apollo 13, no. 76 (April 1931), pp. 217–18, fig. V.
Waldemar-George. "La quinzaine artistique: L'art du XIXe siècle dans un décor ancien (Galerie Paul Rosenberg)." La Revue mondiale (March 15, 1935), p. 36, as paysage provençal.
Venturi, Lionello. "Paul Cézanne." L'Arte 6, nos. 4 and 5 (July 1935), p. 411, fig. 29.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 655, ill. vol. II, as La Maison de Bellevue.
Rewald, John. Cézanne et Zola. Paris: Editions A. Sedrowski, 1936, fig. 69, with photograph of motif.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 69, fig. 39.
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 72, with photograph of motif.
Rewald, John. "As Cézanne Recreated Nature." Art News 43, no. 1 (February 15, 1944), p. 12, ill., with photograph of motif.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, fig. 78 (with photograph of motif).
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 19.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 263, fig. 1.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 104, ill.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 90.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 81, fig. 50, with photographs of motif, p. 80, figs. 48 and 49, as La Maison de Bellevue.
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. 691, ill. vol. 2, as La Maison de Bellevue.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 129, fig. 3.30, as La Maison de Bellevue.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 69, ill., with photos of motif (c. 1935 and 1992), p. 68, as La Maison de Bellevue.
Novotny, Fritz. Paul Cézanne: Gesammelte Schriften zu seinem Werk und Materialien aus dem Nachlaß. Introduction by Gabriel Ramin Schor (editor), Agnes Blaha (assistance). Vienna: Klever, 2011, fig. 39.
Machotka, Pavel. "Des paysages du nord aux premiers pas du cubisme." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 192, fig. 107, as La Maison de Bellevue.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 133, fig. 45c, with black and white and color photos of motif, p. 132, figs. 45a and 45b, as La Maison de Bellevue.
Coutagne, Denis. "P. Cézanne, sur la colline de la Constance–Valcros." Aix-en-Provence: SPLA Pays d'Aix Territoires, June 2015, ill.p. 72.
Bonfort, ed., Didier. Dans les pas de P. Cezanne, Valcros - Bellevue - Montbriand. Didier Bonfort, ed.. Aix-en-provence: Sauvegarde des paysages de Cezanne, February 2016, p. 21, ill., as La Maison de Bellevue.
John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.
Photo: John Rewald, circa 1935; © Sabine Rewald
Photograph by Lionello Venturi, 1933–35 (Courtesy Archivio di Lionello Venturi, Department of Art History and Performance, Sapienza University, Rome)
Site identified by John Rewald..
Photo: Pavel Machotka, 1991; © Courtesy Pavel Machotka Archive
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Maison de Bellevue, c.1890 (FWN 269)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=669 (accessed on November 23, 2024).
