L'Etang des Soeurs, Osny (The Sisters' Pond, Osny)

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Work in the public domain
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Maker


1839-1906

Title

L'Etang des Soeurs, Osny (The Sisters' Pond, Osny)

Date of Production

c. 1875

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 60 cm (canvas)
Width: 73.5 cm (canvas)

Object Number

P.1932.SC.53

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1932

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

On display
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Keywords

Label Text

Paul Cézanne painted this view of a pond in a woodland clearing while visiting fellow artist Camille Pissarro in Osny, a village north of Paris. Unusually for Cézanne, he applied the dense layers of paint with a palette knife, a tool traditionally used to mix colours. The colour is spread diagonally, creating a dynamic patchwork. The broad shaft of light filtering through the trees draws our attention from the shadowed foreground to the opposite bank.

Provenance

Camille Pissarro, Paris; Alphonse Kann, Saint-Germain-en-Laye; with Galerie Barbazanges, Paris; Reininghaus, Vienna; Galerie Barbazanges, Paris; Alex Reid, Glasgow; Agnew, London; purchased by Samuel Courtauld, July 1923; Courtauld Gift, 1932

Exhibition History

Cezanne. Masterpieces from the Courtauld Gallery, KODE, Bergen, Norway, 16/07/2021-10/10/2021
Masterpieces of Impressionism from The Courtauld Gallery, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 10/09/2019-15/12/2019; Aichi Prefectural Museum, Nagoya, Japan, 03/01/2020-15/03/2020; Kobe City Museum, Kobe, Japan, 28/03/2020-21/06/2020
The Courtauld Collection. A Vision for Impressionism, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, 20/02/2019-17/06/2019
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The Courtauld Cézannes, Courtauld Gallery, London, 26/06/2008-05/10/2008
Cézanne in Britain, National Gallery, London, 04/10/2006-07/01/2007
Pioneering Modern Painting - Cezanne and Pissarro 1865-1885, MoMA & New York & USA, 24/06/2005-12/09/2005
Into the 20th century - New Displays at the Courtauld, Courtauld Gallery, London, 10/10/2002
The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 14/06/1998-21/09/1998
The Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, 26/12/1997-12/05/1998
Landscape in French Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1949-1950
Paul Cézanne, Leicester Galleries, London, 1925 (Jun.-Jul.)
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Literature

The Courtauld Cézannes, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2008
cat. no. 1
Cézanne in Britain, National Gallery, London, 2006-07
The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1998

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