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 336
La Citerne dans le parc du Château Noir
c.1900
Alternate titles: Cistern in the Grounds of Château Noir; Cistern in the Park of Château Noir; Cistern in the Park of the Château Noir; Citerne au parc du Château Noir; Felsenlandschaft; Im Park des Château Noir
Rewald (907): c.1900; Venturi revised: 1895–99; Venturi (780): c.1900
Oil on canvas
29 1/4 x 24 in. (74.3 x 61 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XVII. Jahrgang 1914–15, Sommer-Ausstellung, Summer 1915, no. 11, as Felsenlandschaft, tentative identification.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XVIII. Jahrgang, 1915–16, Zweite Ausstellung, December 1915, no. 52, ill., as Felsenlandschaft.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 54, as Im Park des Château Noir, c. 1900, lent by Private collection, Zürich.
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 125, lent by M. Vollmoeller, Zürich.
Société des artistes indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, 50e exposition - Centenaire du peintre indépendant Paul Cézanne, March 17–April 10, 1939, no. 18, as Citerne au parc du Château Noir, lent by Kunstmuseum Zürich ("exhibited for the first time in France").
Fine Arts Associates [Otto Gerson], New York, Cézanne: Rarely Shown Works, November 10–29, 1952, no. 10, ill. lent by Pearlman.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 60, ill. lent by Pearlman.
The Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, Anonymous Collection [Pearlman Collection], July–September 1958, no. 10.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Drawings, Watercolors and Oils by Paul Cézanne, Lent by an Anonymous Collector, July 1–September 1, 1959, no. 3.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, A loan exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors and Sculpture from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman for the benefit of Greenwich House, January 27–February 21, 1959, no. 3, ill. in b/w, as Citerne au parc du Château Noir, c. 1900.
Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, Les Sources du XXe siècle: les arts en Europe de 1884 à 1914, November 4, 1960–January 23, 1961, no. 86, as La Citerne dans le parc du Château Noir, 1900-02, lent by Henry Pearlman, New York.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1961, no. 16, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Cézanne and Structure in Modern Painting, June–August 1963.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, The Pearlman Collection, May 22–October 15, 1964, no number.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Summer Loan Exhibition, July–September 1966, no. 29, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Cézanne and His Contemporaries: The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman Collection, June 14–October 1, 1967, no. 3.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Collects, July 3–September 2, 1968, no. 34.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Collects: Paintings, Watercolors and Sculpture from Private Collections, July 3–September 2, 1968, no. 34, as Cistern in the Park of the Château Noir, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman.
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Expressionism: The Mr. & Mrs. Henry Pearlman Collection of Works, June 10–October 4, 1970, no. 3.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Summer Loan 1971: Paintings from New York Collections: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman and the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, July 13–September 7, 1971, no. 3.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, Paintings, Watercolors, Sculptures and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, May 22–September 29, 1974, no. 4. Traveled to: Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, December 8, 1974–March 14, 1975; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, April 13–August 31, 1975; Francine and Sterling Clark Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, September 26, 1975–February 22, 1976; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, April 6–May 30, 1976.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, France, Cézanne: The Late Work, October 7, 1977–January 3, 1978, no. 48, pl. 53. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 26–March 19, 1978; Grand Palais, Paris, Cezanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978 (see Paris 1978a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues).
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 50, ill.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne, June 16–September 2, 1990, no. 28, fig. 2.
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseille, France, Right Under the Sun, Landscape in Provence: From Classicism to Modernism (1750–1920), May 18–August 21, 2005, no. 37, ill., p. 179, as La Citerne dans le parc du Château Noir. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, September 22, 2005–January 8, 2006.
Palazzo Reale, Milan, Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi, October 20, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 31, ill., as La Citerne dans le parc du Château Noir.
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection, March 13–June 22, 2014, no. 12, ill. has a Chabod (rue Jacob 20) stamp on verso. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, July 11–October 5, 2014; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, October 25, 2014–January 11, 2015; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, February 7–May 18, 2015; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, September 12, 2015–January 3, 2016.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings, March 7–June 14, 2020, no. 23, ill., as Cistern in the Grounds of Château Noir, dated c.1900, catalogue notes by Sara Green. Traveled to: Royal Academy, London, July 12–October 18, 2020 (N.B. This venue was cancelled due to 2020 coronavirus).
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 85, ill. shown in Chicago only. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 185.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 223.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 780, ill. vol. II, as Citerne au parc du Château Noir.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 56.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 17, fig. 31.
Loran, Erle. Cézanne's Composition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943, pp. 72–73, pl. XIII (with photograph of the motif).
Schildt, Göran. Cézanne. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1946, fig. 46 (Loran's photograph of the motif, fig. 47).
Rewald, John. "Cézanne's Last Motifs at Aix." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 88, ill, (with photograph of the motif).
Rubin, William, ed. "Cézannisme and the Beginnings of Cubism." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 161, ill.
Wattenmaker, Richard et al. Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, p. 128, fig. 2.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 454, fig. 1.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 144, ill.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 142.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 103, fig. 72, with photograph of motif, p. 71, fig. 71, as La Citerne dans le parc du Château Noir.
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. 907, ill. vol. 2, as La Citerne dans le parc du Château Noir.
Giles, Laura, and Carol Armstrong, eds. Cézanne in Focus, Watercolors from The Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Art Museum, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, p. 68, fig. 1.
Simms, Matthew. "Painting on Drawing: Cézanne's Watercolors." In Cézanne in focus : Watercolors from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 7.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 169, fig. 4.24, as La Citerne dans le parc du Château Noir.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 103, ill. with photo of motif (c. 1935), as La Citerne dans le parc du Château Noir.
Conisbee, Philip. "Le Tholonet, Bibémus, and the Château Noir." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 197, fig. 10, as La Citerne dans le parc du Château Noir.
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. 31.
Coutagne, Denis. "Il paesaggio in Cézanne." In Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi. Milan: Skira, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 44, ill. (detail).
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 106, pl. 25.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 172, fig. 64a, with black and white photo of motif, fig. 64b, as La Citerne dans le parc du Château Noir.
Simms, Matthew. "Cézanne, Painting, and Harmony." In Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 138 and 141, fig. 87 (cat. 12).
Dumas, Ann. "Cézanne and his love affair with the rocks of Provence." RA Magazine (Summer 2020), ill.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 183, fig. 9, as Cistern in the Park of Château Noir.
Record last updated June 24, 2024. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Citerne dans le parc du Château Noir, c.1900 (FWN 336)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=881 (accessed on December 21, 2024).
