| View of Auvers-sur-Oise | |
|---|---|
| French: Paysage d'Auvers-sur-Oise; Groupe de maisons, paysage d'île de France; Auvers: Vue générale du village, German: Ansicht von Aix, Bei Auvers, Regenlandschaft | |
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| Artist | Paul Cézanne |
| Year | 1879–80 |
| Catalogue | FWN 134 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Movement | Post-impressionism |
| Subject | Landscape |
| Dimensions | 46 cm × 55 cm (18.1 in × 21.6 in) |
| Condition | Stolen in 2000; current whereabouts unknown |
| Location | Last known location before theft: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
| Owner | Government of the United Kingdom |
| Accession | WA1980.79 |
| Preceded by | Paysage avec route et clocher (Île de France près de Melun?) |
| Followed by | Paysage |
View of Auvers-sur-Oise is the common English name for a Paul Cézanne painting known by various French names, usually Paysage d'Auvers-sur-Oise, or in the artist's catalogue raisonné, Groupe de maisons, paysage d'île de France.[1] It is believed to have been painted in 1879–80, several years after Cézanne's residence in Auvers-sur-Oise, a small village northwest of Paris. The painting depicts a landscape of Northern France; the exact location has not been determined.
Victor Chocquet bought the painting from the artist, and it remained in his family's collection until the early 20th century. Later it came into the possession of Bruno Cassirer, who loaned it to the Kunsthaus Zürich. It was inherited by Cassirer's daughter Sophie, and after her death in 1979 it was accepted in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University.[2]
Shortly after midnight on New Year's Day 2000, guards at the Ashmolean, responding to a fire alarm, discovered the painting was missing. Police believe the thief or thieves used a smoke bomb and that night's millennium celebrations as a cover for the theft of the museum's only Cézanne and the only painting taken.[3] It has not been recovered.
- ^ Feilchenfeldt, Walter; Warman, Jayne; Nash, David (January 22, 2019). "Groupe de maisons, paysage d'île de France". The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne. Cézanne Online Catalogue. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- ^ "A View of buildings in a valley in the Ile-de-France". Ashmolean Museum. 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- ^ Ezard, John (2 January 2000). "Smoke bomb masks burglar's theft of £3m Cezanne". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 December 2019.