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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1974.170
People
Paul Cézanne, French (Aix-en-Provence 1839 - 1906 Aix-en-Provence)
Title
Large Pine, Study
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Le Grand Arbre
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1890-1895
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/310903

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor over graphite on cream modern laid paper
Dimensions
31.9 x 49.5 cm (12 9/16 x 19 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Ambroise Vollard (French, 1867–1939), Paris]. [Étienne Bignou, Paris]. Théodore Rousseau Jr., New York, by 1963, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Rewald 286

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Theodore Rousseau; jointly owned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Accession Year
1974
Object Number
1974.170
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ellen H. Johnson, Cézanne and a Pine Tree, Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin (Oberlin, Ohio, Fall 1963), Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 11-23, pp. 16-17, repr. p. 17 as fig. 4
  • Cézanne Watercolors, exh. cat., M. Knoedler & Co. and Columbia University Dept. of Art History and Archaeology (New York, 1963), p. 33, cat. no. 22, repr. as plate XX
  • Jacob Bean, European Drawings Recently Acquired, 1973-1975, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1975), cat. no. 35, repr.
  • "Principales acquisitions des musées en 1975", La Gazette des beaux-arts (Paris, March 1976), La Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, p. 50, repr. as no. 211
  • Marjorie B. Cohn, Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1977), cat. no. 11 p. 94
  • John Rewald, Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné, Little, Brown & Company (Boston, MA, 1983), cat. no. 286, repr. as fig. no. 27
  • Richard Kendall, Cézanne by Himself: Drawings, Paintings, Writings, Macdonald Orbis (London, 1988), p. 215, repr.
  • Wayne Enstice and Melody Peters, Drawing: Space, Form, Expression, Prentice Hall (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1990), pp. 45-46, repr. p. 45 as fig. 2-7
  • Antoine Terrasse, Les aquarelles de Cézanne, Flammarion (Paris, 1995), p. 68, repr.
  • Françoise Cachin, Cézanne, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, 1996), cat. no. 155, repr.
  • Françoise Cachin, Cézanne, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 1996), pp.370, 376, cat. no. 155, repr. p. 376
  • Matthew Simms, Cézanne's Watercolors: Between Drawing and Painting, exh. cat., Yale University Press (New Haven, 2008), pp. 103-106, repr. p. 106 as no. 75
  • Gérard Landrot, Cézanne: Aquarelles, Editions Langlaude (Paris, 2010), p. 46-47, repr. p. 47
  • Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2011), p. 618, repr. p. 618 fig. 1474
  • Christopher Lloyd, Paul Cézanne: Drawings and Watercolors, J. Paul Getty Museum and Thames & Hudson (Los Angeles, 2015), pp. 212, 237, repr. p. 237 as fat. 164
  • Jodi Hauptman and Samantha Friedman, ed., Cézanne Drawings, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art (New York, 2021), pl. 127, pp. 109, 112, 210

Exhibition History

  • Cézanne Watercolors, M. Knoedler & Co., 04/02/1963 - 04/20/1963
  • Drawings Recently Acquired: 1972-1975, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 10/01/1975 - 01/04/1976
  • Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1977 - 06/22/1977
  • Nineteenth Century French Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 06/23/1981 - 08/23/1981
  • Watercolors and Drawings by Paul Cézanne, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 09/06/1988 - 11/06/1988
  • Cézanne, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 09/25/1995 - 01/07/1996
  • Paul Cézanne: Drawings and Watercolors from the Metropolitan Museum’s Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 11/19/2014 - 03/15/2015
  • Cézanne Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 06/06/2021 - 09/25/2021

Verification Level

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