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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2003.40.2
People
Paul Cézanne, French (Aix-en-Provence 1839 - 1906 Aix-en-Provence)
Title
House Among Trees
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Maison dans les Arbres; Valley of the Arc; Vallée de l'Arc
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1890
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/98962

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor over graphite and black chalk on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
24.5 x 31.9 cm (9 5/8 x 12 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: MONTGOLFIER VIDALON-LES-ANNONAY
  • inscription: verso, upper right, blue pencil: 148
  • inscription: verso, right edge, blue pencil: [illegible]
  • inscription: verso, left edge, graphite: [illegible]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Ambroise Vollard, Paris.] [Marcel Guiot, Paris.] [Werner Rusche, Cologne-Braunsfeld]. [Myrtil Frank, The Hague and New York.] [Wildenstein Galleries, New York.] Harold and Mary Gershinowitz, by 1966, New York, Bequest to HUAM, 2002.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Mary Gershinowitz
Accession Year
2003
Object Number
2003.40.2
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Alfred Neumeyer, Cézanne Drawings, Thomas Yoseloff (New York, NY and London, England, 1958), cat. no. 93, repr. (as "Valley of the Arc")
  • Loan Exhibition Cézanne, exh. cat., Wildenstein & Company (New York, NY, 1959), cat. no. 84, repr. (as "Vallée de l'Arc")
  • John Rewald, Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné, Little, Brown & Company (Boston, MA, 1983), cat. no. 359, repr. (as "Maison dans les arbres")

Exhibition History

  • Cézanne, Wildenstein Gallery, New York, New York, 11/05/1959 - 12/05/1959

Verification Level

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