Paul Cezanne, 'Hillside in Provence', about 1890-2

Hillside in Provence

Paul Cezanne

Room 44

About the work

Overview

The wall of angular, jutting rock formations in this painting may represent a quarry, with the cuttings revealing geological strata. While the hillside is somewhere in Cezanne’s native Provence, the specific location has not been conclusively identified.

Stylistically, the painting relates to scenes of the landscape around Aix-en-Provence that Cezanne was painting in the mid-1880s.

In-depth

Stylistically, the painting relates to scenes of the landscape around Aix-en-Provence that Cezanne was painting in the mid-1880s.

Key facts

Details

Full title: Hillside in Provence
Artist: Paul Cezanne
Artist dates: 1839 - 1906
Date made: about 1890-2
Medium and support: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 63.5 × 79.4 cm
Acquisition credit: Bought, Courtauld Fund, 1926
Inventory number: NG4136
Location: Room 44
Collection: Main Collection
Frame: 20th-century English Frame

Provenance

Bought by the Trustees of the Courtauld Fund from the Leicester Galleries, London, 1926. Transferred from the Tate Gallery, 1961.

Additional information

Text extracted from the ‘Provenance’ section of the catalogue entry in Martin Davies, with additions and some revisions by Cecil Gould, ‘National Gallery Catalogues: French School: Early 19th Century, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, etc.’, London 1970; for further information, see the full catalogue entry.

Exhibition history

2014

Cézanne Site / Non-site

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza

4 February 2014 - 18 May 2014
2014

Making Colour

The National Gallery (London)

18 June 2014 - 7 September 2014
2017

Cézanne - Le Chant de la Terre

Fondation Pierre Gianadda

16 June 2017 - 19 November 2017
2018

Courtauld Impressionists: From Manet to Cézanne

The National Gallery (London)

17 September 2018 - 20 January 2019
2020

Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London

The National Museum of Western Art

18 June 2020 - 18 October 2020

The National Museum of Art

3 November 2020 - 31 January 2021
2021

Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London

National Gallery of Australia

5 March 2021 - 14 June 2021

Bibliography

1926

R. Fry, 'The Courtauld Fund', Nation and Athenaeum, 1926, pp. 613-4
1927

R. Fry, Cézanne: A Study of His Development, London 1927
1936

L. Venturi, Cézanne: Son art, son oeuvre, Paris 1936
1954

D. Cooper, The Courtauld Collection: A Catalogue and Introduction, London 1954
1954

D. Cooper, 'Two Cézanne Exhibitions II', The Burlington Magazine, XCVI, 1954, pp. 378-83
1956

D. Cooper, 'Cézanne's Chronology', The Burlington Magazine, XCVIII/645, 1956, p. 449
1956

L. Gowing, 'Notes on the Development of Cézanne', The Burlington Magazine, XCVIII, 1956, pp. 185-92
1959

R. Alley, Tate Gallery Catalogues: The Foreign Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1959
1970

Davies, Martin, and Cecil Gould, National Gallery Catalogues: French School: Early 19th Century, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists etc., London 1970
1977

T. Reff, 'Painting and Theory in the Final Decade', in W. Rubin (ed.), Cézanne: The Late Work, New York 1977, pp. 38-44
1981

National Gallery, 'Pictures Cleaned and Restored in the Conservation Department of the National Gallery, January 1981 - December 1981', National Gallery Technical Bulletin, VI, 1982
1983

M. Wilson, French Painting after 1800, London 1983
1985

A. Roy, 'The Palettes of Three Impressionist Paintings', National Gallery Technical Bulletin, IX, 1985, pp. 12-20
1990

D. Bomford, R. White and L. Williams, Impressionism (exh. cat. The National Gallery, 1990), London 1990
1990

V. Pasmore, The Artist's Eye: Victor Pasmore (exh. cat. The National Gallery, 4 July - 7 October 1990), London 1990
1993

R. White and J. Pilc, 'Analyses of Paint Media', National Gallery Technical Bulletin, XIV, 1993, pp. 86-94
1993

G. Adriani, Cézanne Gemälde: Meisterwerke aus Vier Jahrzehnten (exh. cat. Kunsthalle Tübingen, 16 January - 2 May 1993), Cologne 1993
1996

J. Rewald, W. Feilchenfeldt and J. Warman, The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, London 1996
1997

G. Cavalli-Björkman, Cézanne i blickpunten (exh. cat. Nationalmuseum, 17 October 1997-11 January 1998), Stockholm 1997
2001

C. Baker and T. Henry, The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue, London 2001

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