The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
(Formerly directed by Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash)
FWN 1048
Le Bassin et l'allée des marronniers au Jas de Bouffan
1878–80
Alternate titles: Allée des marronniers au Jas de Bouffan; Alley of Trees; Avenue of Chestnuts at the "Jas de Bouffan" - Allée des marronniers au Jas de Bouffan; Avenue of Chestnuts at the Jas de Bouffan; Kastanienallee im Jas de Bouffan; L'Allée de marronniers au Jas de Bouffan; L'Allée des Marronniers au Jas de Bouffan; Les Marronniers; Marronniers au Jas de Bouffan; The Avenue at the Jas de Bouffan
Rewald (W113); Venturi revised: 1886–88; Venturi (942): 1883–87; Rivière: 1890; Reff: c.1885
Graphite and watercolor on laid paper
12 3/16 x 18 1/2 in. (31 x 47 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Jacques Seligmann Gallery, New York, Water Colors by Cezanne, November 16–December 7, 1933, no. 11, as Alley of Trees, lent from a French Collection [Cézanne fils].
Galerie Renou et Colle, Paris, Aquarelles et baignades de Cézanne, June 3–17, 1935.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 119, as Allée des marronniers au Jas de Bouffan, c. 1883–87, lent by Paul Cézanne fils, Paris.
Valentine [Dudensing] Gallery, New York, Cézanne watercolors, Renoir drawings, January 4–30, 1937, no. 4, as Marronniers au Jas de Bouffan.
Ancien international Sporting club de Monte-Carlo, Monaco, De Cézanne à nos jours, March 2–19, 1939, no. 4, as Les Marronniers, lent by Paul Cézanne fils; tentative identification.
Tate Gallery, London, Paul Cézanne: an Exhibition of Watercolours, opening on April 10, 1946, no. 11, as Avenue of Chestnuts at the Jas de Bouffan, 1863-1887, lent anonymously. Traveled to: Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, United Kingdom, May–June 1946; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom, July 1946.
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 49, ill. in color, as The Avenue at the Jas de Bouffan, lent by Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt/Main.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 59, ill. in color, p. 196, as Le Bassin et l'allée des marronniers au Jas de Bouffan, 1878-1880, lent by Städel, Frankfurt, shown in Paris and Philadelphia only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Von Linie und Farbe: Französische Zeichnungen des 19. Jahrhunderts aus der Graphischen Sammlung im Städel und aus Frankfurter Privatbesitz, January 9, 2001–February 17, 2002, no. 42, ill., as Kastanienallee im Jas de Bouffan.
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Gärten. Ordnung, Inspiration, Glück, April 5–July 8, 2007.
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Meisterwerke der Graphischen Sammlung. Zeichnungen: Aquarelle, Collagen, February 15–May 13, 2008, no. 56, ill., as Kastanienallee im Jas de Bouffan.
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Wasser Farbe Licht. Aquarelle der Graphischen Sammlung, October 2, 2008–January 4, 2009, listed p. 106, ill. p. 4 (detail) and p. 33, as Kastanienallee im Jas de Bouffan.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 42, ill.
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 19, ill.
Published References
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, ill. opp. p. 120, as L'Allée de marronniers au Jas de Bouffan, dated 1890.
Vollard, Ambroise. Recollections of a Picture Dealer. Translated by Violet M. MacDonald. New York: Dover Publications, 1936, ill. opp. p. 28.
Album Quatre Chemins. Cézanne – Cinq aquarelles reproduites en facsimilé. Paris and New York: Quatre chemins and Raymond & Raymond, n.d. [1936], pl. 1.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 942, ill. vol. II, as Allée des marronniers au Jas de Bouffan.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 51.
Venturi, Lionello. Paul Cézanne: Water-colours. Oxford: B. Cassirer, 1943, p. 35, no. 23, ill. (dated 1883-87), Paul Cézanne fils, Paris.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 99, as Avenue of Chestnuts at the "Jas de Bouffan" - Allée des marronniers au Jas de Bouffan, 1883-87, P. Cézanne fils, Paris.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne on Solids and Spaces." Artforum 16, no. 2 (October 1977), p. 34, ill.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 134.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 113, ill. and color pl. 18.
Elderfield, John. "Cézanne: The Lesson of the Master." Review of Paul Cézanne; The Watercolors, by John Rewald. Art in America 73, no. 6 (June 1985), p. 88, ill.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 89.
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 81, fig. 59.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 104, fig. 63.
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 214, ill.
Cezanne, Jas de Bouffan: art et histoire. Under the scientific direction of Denis Coutagne and François Chédeville. Lyon; Aix-en-Provence: Fage édition; Société Paul Cezanne, 2019, fig. 124 p. 140.
Record last updated February 21, 2025. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Bassin et l'allée des marronniers au Jas de Bouffan, 1878–80 (FWN 1048)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1090 (accessed on March 15, 2025).
