Landscape with Water Mill

Artist: Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906)

ca. 1871

European Art

On view, 2nd floor, European Art
Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

unframed: 16 1/4 × 21 3/8 in. (41.3 × 54.3 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Walter Bareiss, B.S. 1940S

Accession Number

1952.48.1

Culture

French

Period

19th–20th century

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
The artist; sold to Ambroise Vollard, Paris (stock no. 3907a), by 1904 [see note 1]; sold to Galerie Bernheim Jeune, Paris, December 6, 1910 (stock no. 18450) [see note 2]; sold to Auguste Pellerin (1853–1929), Paris, December 6, 1910 [see also note 2]. With Jos (Joseph) Hessel, Paris. With Moderne Galerie (Heinrich Thannhauser, dealer), Munich, about 1917–23. Gottlieb Friedrich Reber (1880–1959), Lugano, Switzerland. Leo Lewin (1881–1965), Breslau, Germany, by 1923 (possibly consigned to Kaethe Perls Galerie (Hugo Perls, dealer), Berlin, about 1927) [sale, Paul & Graupe, Berlin, April 24, 1931, lot 72 (unsold)]; deposited with Richard H. Zinser (1884–1984), Stuttgart, Germany, about 1932–3 [see note 3]; sold to Richard H. Zinser (1884–1984), Stuttgart, Germany, Brussels, then New York, about 1936 [see also note 3]; sold to Walter Bareiss, Greenwich, Conn., 1940 [see note 4]; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1952

Note 1: Ambroise Vollard Records, c. 1842–1952; [Stock book A, 1899–1904], Wildenstein Plattner Institute, copy in curatorial file

Note 2: According to information provided by John Rewald and Jayne Warman, the authors of the Cezanne catalogue raisonne (Cezanne, Watermill, fact-sheet, June 19, 1989, copy in curatorial file)

Note 3: Letter from Richard H. Zinser, New York, to the Gallery, January 12, 1963, accession file

Note 4: Letter from Diana Rosenblatt, New York, Secretary of Walter Bareiss, to the Gallery, January 3, 1963, accession file

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Bibliography
  • Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Floriane Dauberville, Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune (Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020), fig. no. 68, ill., as Les rochers.
  • Geneviève Blanc, L'Oeuvre de Cezanne à L'Estaque, Huiles – Aquarelles – Dessins, 1864–1885 (Marseille: Éditions Gaussen, 2019), fig. fig. 25 (discussion p. 30)
  • Pavel Machotka, Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols (Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008), vol. 1, fig. 44; vol. 2, p. 51, as Paysage avec moulin à eau
  • Philip Conisbee, Cezanne in Provence, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2006), 138
  • Constance Naubert-Riser, Cézanne (London: Studio Editions Ltd, 1994), 57
  • Lawrence Gowing, Cezanne: The Early Years, 1859–1872, exh. cat. (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1988), 186, no. 58
  • Musée d'Orsay, Ce´zanne: Les anne´es de jeunesse, 1859–1872, exh. cat. (Paris: Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1988), 154
  • Aaron Sheon, Monticelli: His Contemporaries, His Influence (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Art, 1978), 71, fig. fig. 56, no. 82
  • Francoise Forster-Hahn, French and School of Paris Paintings in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1968), 3, pl. 14
  • Lionello Venturi, Cezanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre (Paris: Rosenberg, 1936), 77, no. 48
  • Hermann Ball and Paul Graupe, Berlin, Berlin, Die Sammlung Dr. Hans Wendland, sale cat. (April 1931), lot 72
  • Hugo Perls, Französische Malerei des XIX. Jahrhunderts, Zweite Ausstellung (Berlin: n.p., January–February 1927), fig. no. 2 (?), as Landschaft
  • G. Riviere, Le Maitre Paul Cezanne (Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923), 200, listed
  • Karl Scheffler, "Breslauer Kustleben," Kunst und Kunstler 21 (1923), 138, ill.
  • Julius Meier-Graefe, Cezanne und sein Kreis: Ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte, 3rd (Munich: R. Piper and Co., 1922), 118, ill.
  • Julius Meier-Graefe, Cezanne und sein Kreis: Ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte, 2nd (Munich: Piper, 1920), 100, ill.
  • Julius Meier-Graefe, Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren (Munich: R. Piper and Co., 1918), ill. p. 100
  • Moderne Galerie Henrich Thannhauser, Nachtragswerk III zur grossen Katalogausgabe 1916 (Munich: Moderne Galerie, 1918), 30, ill.
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Cézanne, Paul 1839 - 1906

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