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

Maker

(Artists)
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)

Accession Number

P.1932.SC.53

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1932

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

On display

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 ...More

The Courtauld Cézannes, The 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, The 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.) ...Less

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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