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About the Artwork
Paul Cezanne is known for moving beyond the visible brushwork of Impressionism toward a “constructive stroke,” in which each mark built a cohesive whole. He favored subjects that he saw as timeless, including landscape, the focus of this watercolor. Cezanne depicted chestnut trees at the Jas de Bouffan, his family estate outside Aix-en-Provence in southern France. He used graphite lines and areas of muted watercolor, but also the whiteness of his sheet of paper to represent the scene. The artist worked in watercolor throughout his entire career, seeing it as a site of experimentation and for developing new ideas.
Inscriptions
signed, in pencil, on verso: Vollard
Provenance
probably 1895 - ?: (Ambroise Vollard [1867–1939], Paris, presumably sold to Princess Murat, Paris) after 1906 - probably 1913: Princess Murat [1878–1936], Paris 1913 - 1914: Leo [1872–1947] and Gertrude [1874–1946] Stein, Paris, owned jointly 1914 - ?: Gertrude Stein, Paris 1926 - 1929: (Bernheim-Jeune, Paris) 1929: (Paul Cassirer, Berlin, sold to Hertha Harries-von Siemens, Berlin) 1929 - 1939: Hertha Harries-von Siemens [1870–1939], Berlin, by descent 1939 - 2004: private collection, Munich probably 2004: (Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich) 2004 - 2021: private collection, Switzerland 2021: (Luxembourg & Co., London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 2021-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-June 11, 2023).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906)
- Date
- 1882–84
- Medium
- watercolor and graphite on modern laid paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 51.6 x 35.9 cm (20 5/16 x 14 1/8 in.); Matted: 62.9 x 48.3 x 0.6 cm (24 3/4 x 19 x 1/4 in.); Image: 47.9 x 31.4 cm (18 7/8 x 12 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
- Accession no.
- 2021.165
More by Paul Cezanne in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00011011
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