- Title:
- Study of Trees (Sous Bois)
- Object name(s):
- Watercolour
- Brief description:
- Watercolour and pencil study of trees on Montgolfier paper (watermarked).
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Watercolours
- Content - concept:
- trees
- Credit line:
- Purchased with Art Fund support
- Current reproduction location:
- https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2011FA9927/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 49.5
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 32.1
- Material:
- watercolour (paint)
- Material:
- pencil
- Object history note:
- Catalogue raisonnés: Société Paul Cezanne Online Catalogue Raisonné (FWN 1220) www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1292 ; Rewald (W311); Venturi revised: 1895–1900; Venturi (1621): 1890–1900 Exhibited: O'Hana Gallery, London, Paintings and Sculpture of the 19th and 20th Centuries, 1962, no. 9, ill. Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September 19–November 4, 1973, no. 61, ill. in b/w, as Sous-bois, lent by Victoria and Albert Museum. Traveled to: Hayward Gallery, London, November 13–December 30, 1973. National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 72, ill., as Etude d'arbres, 1887-89, lent by Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974. Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 42, ill., as Waldstück (Sous-bois), 1888-90, lent by Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982. Arts Council of Great Britain, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom, Impressionist Drawings from British Public and Private Collections, March 11–April 20, 1986, no. 11, fig. 84. Traveled to: Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom, April 30–June 1, 1986; The Burrell Collection, Glasgow, United Kingdom, June 7–July 13, 1986. Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni, March 7–July 7, 2002, listed p. 162, ill., as Sottobosco, lent by Victoria & Albert Museum, London. National Gallery, London, Cézanne in Britain, October 4, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 27, ill., as Study of Trees (Sous-bois). Royal Academy of Arts, London, Impressionists on Paper, Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec, November 25, 2023–March 10, 2024, no. 48, ill. lent by Victoria & Albert Museum.
- Object name:
- Watercolour
- Object number:
- P.6-1966
- Object production date:
- 1887-1890
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1887-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1890-12-31
- Object production person:
- Cezanne, Paul
- Person's association:
- artist
- Object production place:
- France
- Place association:
- made
- Physical description:
- Watercolour and pencil study of trees on Montgolfier paper (watermarked).
- Reproduction number:
- 2011FA9927
- Reproduction number:
- 2018KN9059
- Reproduction number:
- 2018KN9060
- Responsible department/section:
- PDP
- Technique:
- watercolour painting
- Technique:
- drawing
- Technique:
- Watercolour and pencil
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Robbins, Anne, Cézanne in Britain, London: National Gallery, 2006.
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1621, ill. vol. II (upside down), as Sous-bois.
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Wadley, Nicholas. "Cézanne Water-colours and Drawings at the Hayward Gallery." The Burlington Magazine 115, no. 849 (December 1973), p. 831, fig. 105.
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Wadley, Nicholas. Cézanne and His Art. London: Hamlyn, 1975, pl. 62 (ill. upside down).
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 311, ill.
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 273, ill.
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Wadley, Nicholas. Cézanne and His Art. London: Hamlyn, 1989, p. 71, ill. in color.
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 248, fig. 175.
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Dumas, Ann (Author)Jarbouai, Leïla (Author) Lloyd, Christopher (Author) Stratis, Harriet K (Author) Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec London : Royal Academy of Arts, 2023 ISBN 978-1-912520-97-8
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