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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.
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447789
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Footpath in the Woods
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447789
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drawing
title
Footpath in the Woods
description
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.
date
1882–84
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
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Q117246986
creators
1754
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Drawing
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1
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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.)
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France
accession
2021.165
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watercolor and graphite on modern laid paper
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Footpath in the Woods, 1882–84. Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906). Watercolor and graphite on modern laid paper; 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 2021.165
collection
DR - French
inscriptions
inscription
signed, in pencil, on verso: Vollard
didYouKnow
This drawing was once owned by collectors Leo and Gertrude Stein, in whose Parisian apartment it would have been seen by a young Pablo Picasso.
citations
citation
<em>Cézanne, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, Bronzen von Edgar Degas</em>. Exh. cat. Berlin: Galerie Flechtheim, 1927.
page_number
Mentioned: no. 38
citation
Scheffler, Karl. “Französische Zeichnungen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts bei Paul Cassirer.” <em>Kunst und Künstler </em>28, no. 5 (1930): 192.
citation
Venturi, Lionello. <em>Cézanne: Son art, son œuvre</em>. Paris: Paul Rosenberg, 1936.
page_number
Mentioned: vol. 1, p. 242, no. 838; Reproduced vol. 2, pl. 273
citation
Adriani, Götz. <em>Cézanne Watercolors. </em>Translated by Russell M. Stockman. New York: Abrams, 1981.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 288, no. 124
citation
Rewald, John. <em>Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors.</em> Boston: Little, Brown, 1983.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 126–27, no. 170
citation
Rewald, John. <em>Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. </em> Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 61–62
citation
Bishop, Janet, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow, eds. <em>The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde</em>, 366, 369, 372, 397 (ill.), no. 16. Exh. cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 366, 369, 372, no. 16; Reproduced: p. 397
citation
Bishop, Janet, Cécile Debray, Rebecca Rabinow, and Gary Tinterow, eds. <em>Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso: L’Aventure des Stein. </em>Exh. cat. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2011.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 153; Reproduced: p. 396
citation
Ruppen, Fabienne. <em>Reconstructing Cezanne: Sequence and Process in Paul Cezanne’s Works on Paper. </em>Exh. cat. London: Luxembourg & Dayan, 2019.
page_number
Mentoined: pp. 22, 66, no. 10; Reproduced: p. 67
citation
Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. <em>The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné.</em> Published online, 2020.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: no. 1118
citation
Salsbury, Britany. “Nineteenth-Century French Drawings: Acquiring the now-on-view Cleveland collection.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>vol. 63, no. 1 (2023): 8-9.
page_number
Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 9.
citation
Salsbury, Britany. <em>Nineteenth-Century French Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Lewes, UK, Cleveland, Ohio: GILES; Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 132-135, no. 23
catalogueRaisonne
Venturi 838; Rewald 170; FWN 1118
creditline
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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2026-05-29 09:02:21.472000
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447789
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DR - French
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watercolor and graphite on modern laid paper
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