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Villa au bord de l’eau, I (recto)
Study of foliage by the water (verso)

Maker

(artist)
1839-1906

Title

Villa au bord de l’eau, I (recto)
Study of foliage by the water (verso)

Date of Production

1888

Medium

graphite and watercolour (recto), graphite (verso) on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 30 cm
Width: 42.6 cm

Accession Number

D.2025.XX.10

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust). Gift of the Wayne Thiebaud Foundation in memory of Wayne Thiebaud, 2025.

Location

Not currently on display

Provenance

Estate of Paul Cezanne; Gaston Bernheim de Villers, Paris (1907); Sam Salz (1894-1981) dealer in New York; Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block, Chicago; Block Collection, sold at Sotheby’s Parke-Bernet, New York, May 20, 1981, no. 306, ill.; E.V. Thaw, New York; Private collection, New York; Christie's, New York, Nov. 4, 2004, no. 105, ill., unsold; Waterhouse & Dodd, London; Connaught Brown, dealer, London (according to a label on the back of the frame); Gerald Peters Gallery, dealer, New York (according to a label on the back of the frame); Wayne Thiebaud, Sacramento; Thiebaud Foundation, Sacramento; gifted to the Samuel Courtauld Trust, 2025

Literature

Venturi, Lionello, Cézanne: son art, son oeuvre. 2 vols., Paris 1936
cat. no. 935
vol II

Les expositions. Marianne: grand hebdomadaire politique et littéraire illustré (Paris) (April 20, 1938),
p. 9
..cette maison au bord de l'eau ... tentative identification.

John Rewald, 'Paul Cézanne: The Watercolours', London 1983
cat. no. 410 ...More

Marchesseau, Daniel.Paul Cézanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017.
p.198

Chédeville, François, and Raymond Hurtu. Cézanne sur les bords de Marne. Société Cézanne, August 2021
fig. 224 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Verso, running along upper centre of sheet, blindstamped in reverse and repeating: ANCNE MANUFRE CANSON & MONTGOLFIER VIDALON LES ANNONAY..

Inscription: Verso: lower right, graphite, erased: 5 461 [?].

Collector's mark: none.

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