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)
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FWN 281
Au bord de l'eau
c.1894
Alternate titles: Arbres et Maisons reflétant dans l'eau; At the Water's Edge; Paysage des bords de la Marne; Pontoise
Rewald (724): 1890–92; Venturi revised: c.1888; Venturi (637): 1888–90
Oil on canvas
28 11/16 x 36 3/16 in. (73 x 92 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895, Fabbri buys?
Biennale, Venice, Italy, Mostra Individuale di Paul Cézanne, April 15–October 31, 1920, no. 22, (dated 1888), as Pontoise, tentative identification, lent by Fabbri.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne, February 6–March 6, 1921, no. 9, as Arbres et Maisons reflétant dans l'eau, lent by Fabbri.
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Cézanne: Centennial Exhibition, November 7–December 2, 1939, no. 14, (dated 1888–90), as Au bord de l'eau.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, The Age of Impressionism and Objective Realism, May 3–June 2, 1940, no. 4.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture Collected by Yale Alumni, May 19–June 26, 1960, no. 77, ill.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., The Marie and Averell Harriman Collection, April 15–May 14, 1961, no number, ill., p. 15.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 102, ill., as Au bord de l'eau. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy, Cézanne a Firenze: Due collezionisti e la mostra dell'impressionismo del 1910 [In English:Cézanne in Florence: Two Collectors and the 1910 Exhibition of Impressionism], March 2–July 29, 2007, fig. 29, pp. 104–05, ill., 262, as Au bord de l'eau.
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary, Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction, October 28, 2021–February 13, 2022, no. 42, ill. comments by Judit Geskó.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 637, ill. vol. II, as Au bord de l'eau.
Carlsund, Otto G. "Fransk Konst i butiken [French Art in galleries]." Konstrevy (Stockholm) XIII, no. 6 (1937), ill. p.197, as Au bord de l'eau.
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Intimate Cézanne Centennial at Marie Harriman Gallery." Art News 38 (November 11, 1939), p. 7, ill.
Anonymous. "Noted Works Mark Show at Institute." Detroit Free Press, May 5, 1940, p. 51 (mentioned), as Au bord de l'eau.
Newberry, John Stoughton. "The Age of Impressionism and Realism." Art News 38, no. 31 (May 4, 1940), p. 13, ill.
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1975, no. 2586, p. 63 ill., as At the Water's Edge.
Kelder, Diane. The Great Book of French Impressionism. New York: Abbeville Press, 1980, p. 418, 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. 724, ill. vol. 2, as Au bord de l'eau.
Benesch, Evelyn. "From the Incomplete to the Unfinished: Realisation in the Work of Paul Cézanne." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 54, fig. 19, as Au bord de l'eau.
Bardazzi, Francesca, ed. Cézanne in Florence: Two Collectors and the 1910 Exhibition of Impressionism. Translated by John Venerella. Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, p. 264, fig. 29.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 240; vol. 2, p. 161, as Au bord de l'eau.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed., Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 107, ill., as Paysage des bords de la Marne, dated circa 1894.
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. 194, fig. 110, as Au bord de l'eau.
Chédeville, François, and Raymond Hurtu. "Cezanne sur les bords de Marne." Société Cezanne, August 2021, fig. 290, 1892–94.
Record last updated October 24, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Au bord de l'eau, c.1894 (FWN 281)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=702 (accessed on June 30, 2025).
