id: 447789 accession number: 2021.165 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.165 updated: 2024-08-10 14:47:57.891000 Footpath in the Woods, 1882–84. Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906). Watercolor and graphite on modern laid paper; image: 47 x 31 cm (18 1/2 x 12 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 2021.165 title: Footpath in the Woods title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1882–84 creation date earliest: 1882 creation date latest: 1884 current location: creditline: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: France technique: watercolor and graphite on modern laid paper department: Drawings collection: DR - French type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: Venturi 838; Rewald 170; FWN 1118 --- CREATORS * Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906) - artist The son of a wealthy banker, Cézanne began his studies in Aix-en-Provence at the École Saint-Joseph in 1849, then attended the Collège Bourbon from 1852 until 1858. Émile Zola, the future author, was to become one of his closest friends. Cézanne enrolled at the École Gratuite de Dessin in 1857, entering the studio of Joseph Gibert (1806-1884). Two years later, complying with his father's wishes, he began studying law at the Université d'Aix while still at the École Gratuite de Dessin. In 1861 Cézanne finally left law school and followed Zola to Paris where he met Pissarro (q.v.) at the Académie Suisse. Probably after his failure to enter the École des Beaux-Arts, he returned to Aix and began working at his father's bank. In 1862, however, Cézanne returned to Paris, where he studied at the Académie Suisse and copied the works of the Old Masters in the Louvre. The works he produced during this period reflect the influence of Spanish painters such as Ribera (1591-1562) and Zurbarán (1598-1664), and other predecessors such as Delacroix (q.v.). His submissions to the Salons of 1865 through 1870 (and even through 1881) did not receive the jury's approval; the reinstatement of the Salon des Refusés was repeatedly but unsuccessfully demanded. Cézanne traveled often between Aix and Paris until 1870. To escape the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) he stayed in the south in L'Estaque, along with his mistress, Hortense Fiquet, whom he had met in 1869. Cézanne moved back north to Pontoise with Hortense and his son, Paul, in 1872 and worked with Pissarro and met Dr. Paul Gachet. The following year he moved again to nearby Auvers-sur-Oise with his family, continuing his work with Pissarro. In 1874 and 1877 Cézanne participated in the first and third impressionist exhibitions, but the severe criticism of his works led him to abstain from using this venue again. In 1878 his father learned of the existence of Hortense and Paul, who at that point were living in Marseille, and threatened to discontinue his allowance. While in the Midi, Cézanne often worked with Monticelli (q.v.). His art increasingly matured, and he began concentrating on the order and internal structure within his compositions, limiting his palette. During these years he also met Gauguin (q.v.) and Renoir (q.v.), and always trav-eled, chiefly between Aix and L'Estaque. In 1886 Cézanne married Hortense, his father died, and the inheritance provided him with the financial means to live without constraints. He bought a house in Marlotte near Fontainebleau in 1892. In 1895 he had his first solo show at the gallery of Ambroise Vollard, who two years later bought all the artist's works from his studio near Corbeil. The dealer Paul Durand-Ruel became another important client. Cézanne participated in the Salon des Indépendants in 1899, 1901, and 1902 and exhibited at La Libre Esthétique in Brussels in 1901 and 1904, the Secession in Vienna in 1903, and the Salon d'Automne in 1904-6. He continued to study the underlying structure of nature, at times approaching abstraction by denying traditional perspective and using multiple viewpoints. He also began leaving portions of the canvas bare, giving some works an unfinished appearance. Cézanne's work had a tremendous influence on the artists of his time as well as those of subsequent generations, and he is considered one of the most influential figures in the development of modern art. --- measurements: Image: 47 x 31 cm (18 1/2 x 12 3/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed, in pencil, on verso: Vollard translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2023-01-20T05:00:00 Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-April 30, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Possibly Watercolors by Paul Cezanne. Galerie Amboise Vollard, Paris (June 1905).', 'opening_date': '1905-06-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Cézanne, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, Bronzen von Edgar Degas. Galerie Flechtheim, Berlin (May 19–June 16, 1927).', 'opening_date': '1927-06-16T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Ein Jahrhundert französischer Zeichnung. Paul Cassirer, Berlin (December 1929–January 1930).', 'opening_date': '1929-12-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Paul Cézanne Aquarelle. Kunsthalle Tübingen (January 16–March 21, 1982); Kunsthaus Zürich (April 2–May 31, 1982).', 'opening_date': '1982-03-21T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso: L’Aventure des Stein. Grand Palais, Paris (October 5, 2011–January 16, 2012).', 'opening_date': '2011-10-05T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Reconstructing Cezanne: Sequence and Process in Paul Cezanne’s Works on Paper. Luxembourg & Dayan, London (October 2–December 7, 2019).', 'opening_date': '2019-12-07T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (Ambroise Vollard [1867–1939], Paris, presumably sold to Princess Murat, Paris) date: probably 1895 - ? footnotes: citations: Princess Murat [1878–1936], Paris date: after 1906 - probably 1913 footnotes: citations: Leo [1872–1947] and Gertrude [1874–1946] Stein, Paris, owned jointly date: 1913 - 1914 footnotes: citations: Gertrude Stein, Paris date: 1914 - ? footnotes: citations: (Bernheim-Jeune, Paris) date: 1926 - 1929 footnotes: citations: (Paul Cassirer, Berlin, sold to Hertha Harries-von Siemens, Berlin) date: 1929 footnotes: citations: Hertha Harries-von Siemens [1870–1939], Berlin, by descent date: 1929 - 1939 footnotes: citations: private collection, Munich date: 1939 - 2004 footnotes: citations: (Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich) date: probably 2004 footnotes: citations: private collection, Switzerland date: 2004 - 2021 footnotes: citations: (Luxembourg & Co., London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 2021 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2021- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cézanne, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, Bronzen von Edgar Degas. Exh. cat. Berlin: Galerie Flechtheim, 1927. page number: Mentioned: no. 38 url: Scheffler, Karl. “Französische Zeichnungen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts bei Paul Cassirer.” Kunst und Künstler 28, no. 5 (1930): 192. page number: url: Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son art, son œuvre. Paris: Paul Rosenberg, 1936. page number: Mentioned: vol. 1, p. 242, no. 838; Reproduced vol. 2, pl. 273 url: Adriani, Götz. Cézanne Watercolors. Translated by Russell M. Stockman. New York: Abrams, 1981. page number: Mentioned: p. 288, no. 124 url: Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors. Boston: Little, Brown, 1983. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 126–27, no. 170 url: Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 61–62 url: Bishop, Janet, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow, eds. The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, 366, 369, 372, 397 (ill.), no. 16. Exh. cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011. page number: Mentioned: pp. 366, 369, 372, no. 16; Reproduced: p. 397 url: Bishop, Janet, Cécile Debray, Rebecca Rabinow, and Gary Tinterow, eds. Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso: L’Aventure des Stein. Exh. cat. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2011. page number: Mentioned: p. 153; Reproduced: p. 396 url: Ruppen, Fabienne. Reconstructing Cezanne: Sequence and Process in Paul Cezanne’s Works on Paper. Exh. cat. London: Luxembourg & Dayan, 2019. page number: Mentoined: pp. 22, 66, no. 10; Reproduced: p. 67 url: Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. Published online, 2020. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 1118 url: http://www.cezannecatalogue.com Salsbury, Britany. “Nineteenth-Century French Drawings: Acquiring the now-on-view Cleveland collection.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 63, no. 1 (2023): 8-9. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 9. url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2023-01/page/n7 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2021.165/2021.165_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2021.165/2021.165_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2021.165/2021.165_full.tif