Château Noir

Provenance

Acquired 1907 by (Ambroise Vollard [1866-1939], Paris);[1] sold to Marius de Zayas [1881-1961].[2] Purchased by Edward Steichen [1879-1973] for Eugene [1875-1959] and Agnes Ernst Meyer [1887-1970], Mount Kisco, New York, and Washington, D.C., by 1921;[3] gift 1958 to NGA. [1] On Vollard acquisition, see John Rewald, _The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné_, New York, 1996, no. 937. [2] According to _Cezanne_, exh. cat., Grand Palais, Paris; Tate Gallery, London; Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1995, no. 189. [3] Regarding Steichen's role, see letter dated 12 July 1977 from Katherine Graham in NGA curatorial files. Lent by the Meyers to the 1921 _Loan Exhibition of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings_ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Château Noir

Cezanne, Paul

1900/1904

Accession Number

1958.10.1

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 73.7 x 96.6 cm (29 x 38 1/16 in.) | framed: 97.8 x 120.3 x 5.7 cm (38 1/2 x 47 3/8 x 2 1/4 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer