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Statue under trees (Route forestière avec une statue)

Maker

(artist)
1839-1906

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1895 - 1900

Medium

graphite, watercolour and bodycolour on wove paper with clusters of pinholes at all four corners

Dimensions

Height: 48.1 cm
Width: 31.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.240

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

The effortless relationship between the initial pencil sketch and the colour composition lend a particularly lively appearance to this late, freshly preserved watercolour study. Generous curved lines in the foreground indicate a path in a grove of trees leading to a summarily described and still unidentified statue. Cézanne’s concern was the vivid matrix of touches of various hues of purple, blue and green bound together by the light paper, which helps to give the work its luminous quality.

Provenance

by descent to the artist's son, Paul Cézanne, Paris (1872-1947); probably purchased from him by Paul Guillaume (Paris) and purchased from him by Sir Kenneth Clark, London (1903-1983), 1933 (£250, with about 50 others; see Clark's autobiography, 'Another part of the wood', 1974, p. 240); purchased from him by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 3 September 1941 (£500); Princes Gate Bequest 1978 Much of the literature, starting with Venturi, lists Ambroise Vollard as the first owner of this drawing, but it is unclear if there is any evidence for that or whether it was just an assumption. It is also just an assumption that Clark acquired this from Guillaume, though it seems the most likely source. However, in Clark's correspondence with Seilern he only said that he acquired this drawing in exchange for a Degas, which makes it seem that it was not actually part of the bundle of 50 drawings for £250 and was a separate transaction.

Exhibition History

Impressionism: pastels, watercolours, drawings, Albertina, Vienna, 09/02/2012-13/05/2012

The Courtauld Cézannes, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 26/06/2008-05/10/2008

Cezanne Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 04/06/2003-31/07/2003 ...More

Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Related Drawings from the
Courtauld Collections, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 11/05/1988-04/09/1988

Mantegna to Cezanne - Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 24/02/1983-19/06/1983

The Princes Gate Collection - Drawings (Selection B), The Courtauld Gallery, London, 29/01/1982-25/07/1982 ...Less

Literature

Christopher Lloyd, 'Paul Cézanne: Drawings and Watercolours', London 2015
p. 218
fig. 177 on p. 251 (caption is on p. 250)

Impressionism on Paper - Drawings from Manet to Van Gogh, Albertina, Vienna, 2012
cat. no. 26
ill.

The Courtauld Cézannes, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2008
cat. no. 16
ill. on p. 130 and fig. 68 on p. 129 (detail)
dated c. 1895-1900 ...More

Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Related Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1988
cat. no. 9
dated 1898-1900

Mantegna to Cezanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 1983
cat. no. 101
ill. on p. 106

John Rewald, 'Paul Cézanne: The Watercolours', London 1983
no. 490
pl. 490
dated 1898-1900

The Princes Gate Collection - Drawings (Selection B), The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1982
cat. no. 157
ill. on p. 113

Seilern, Count Antoine, Paintings and drawings of Continental Schools other than Flemish and Italian at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1961; III
no. 240
pl. LXV
dated c. 1895-1900

Rewald, John, Paul Cézanne, correspondence, Paris 1937
pl. 47

Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman and David Nash, The paintings, watercolours and drawings of Paul Cezanne. An online catalogue raisonné, https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/index.php
FWN 1429
ill.
dated c. 1898-1900

Christopher Lloyd, Impressionist & Post-Impressionist Drawings, 2019, New York, New York: Thames & Hudson.
ill. frontispiece ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, running along upper centre, blindstamped: "[...]OLFIER SAINT MARCEL LES ANNONAY" (preferred make of paper by the artist for watercolours and produced by Canson and Montgolfier of Vidalon, papermill near Annonay - see Zieske in 'The Broad Spectrum', 2002, pp. 95-97 and Ruppen in Luxembourg & Dayan 2019 catalogue, p. 32).

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Verso: lower right, graphite: "III / 31".

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