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Road in Provence
by Paul Cezanne
Provenance
René Pottier, Paris. S. Lézin, Paris. Sold by Galerie Eugène Blot, Paris, to Mr. and Mrs. Martin Ryerson, Chicago, May 1920 [museum records]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933
Exhibition history
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Mar.-Aug. 1926. Chicago, Renaissance Society, Exhibition of Pure Line Drawing: From the Greek to the Modern, Feb. 26–Mar. 7, 1933. San Francisco Museum of Art, "Cézanne," Sept. 1-Oct. 4, 1937, cat. 41. Dallas, Tex., Museum of Fine Arts, French Moderns, Nov. 5-Dec. 2, 1939. La Jolla, Calif., La Jolla Art Center, "Post Impressionists," Aug. 7-Sept. 25, 1955, cat. 42. New York, Columbia University (organizer), "Cézanne Watercolors," 1963, cat. 16, pl. XIII; shown at Knoedler Galleries, New York, Apr. 2-20, 1963. Art Institute of Chicago, "Cezanne," May 11-Sept. 5, 2022, p. 160, cat. 89 (ill.).
Publications
Lionello Venturi, Cézanne: son art, son œuvre (Paris, 1936), no. 970. John Rewald, Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, a catalogue raisonné (Boston, 1983), pp. 145-146, no. 249 (ill.). Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman, and David Nash, "Chemin dans les arbres, c.1885 (FWN 1144)," The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. http://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1229 (accessed on February 1, 2019).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Paul Cézanne / French, 1839-1906
- Date
- c. 1885
- Medium
- Watercolor and graphite on tan wove paper
- Dimensions
- 50.2 × 50.4 cm (19 13/16 × 19 7/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- watercolor
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Accession no.
- 1933.1221
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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