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| Paul Cézanne Rocks in the Forest 1890s Metropolitan Museum |
A century ago, these first six Cézanne oils were hanging together in the same house on 5th Avenue in New York. Louisine Havemeyer, their owner, was the widow of a superlative speculator who dominated the sugar markets of the late 19th century. H.O. Havemeyer succeeded in ruining his competitors and accumulating colossal wealth, but then he suddenly died. Mrs. Havemeyer spent the next thirty years collecting art, simultaneously launching herself as a militant activist for women's suffrage. By the terms of her will, something like two thousand works of art (including the six Cézannes) were left to the Metropolitan Museum.
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| Paul Cézanne Still Life 1893-94 Metropolitan Museum |
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| Paul Cézanne Gulf of Marseilles c. 1885 Metropolitan Museum |
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| Paul Cézanne Mont Sainte-Victoire 1882-85 Metropolitan Museum |
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| Paul Cézanne Portrait of Gustave Boyer c. 1870-71 Metropolitan Museum |
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| Paul Cézanne Still Life c. 1877 Metropolitan Museum |
The six Cézanne watercolors below did not belong to Mrs. Havemeyer. The first is today at the Met nevertheless, while the others were deposited over the years at the Morgan Library by other American plutocrats.
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| Paul Cézanne Bathers by a Bridge c. 1900-06 Metropolitan Museum |
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| Paul Cézanne Trees 19th century Morgan Library |
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| Paul Cézanne Plaster Cupid 19th century Morgan Library |
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| Paul Cézanne Mont Sainte-Victoire 19th century Morgan Library |
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| Paul Cézanne Still Life c. 1902-06 Morgan Library |
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| Paul Cézanne Bare Trees on a River c. 1900-05 Morgan Library |