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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)
Catalogue entry
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 paper
12 3/16 x 18 1/2 in. (31 x 47 cm)
Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Maurice Renou, Paris
Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich (1973)
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main (1976)
Exhibition History
1933c New York
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].1935b Paris
Galerie Renou et Colle, Paris, Aquarelles et baignades de Cézanne, June 3–17, 1935.1936c Paris
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.1937 New York
Valentine [Dudensing] Gallery, New York, Cézanne watercolors, Renoir drawings, January 4–30, 1937, no. 4, as Marronniers au Jas de Bouffan.1939 Monte-Carlo
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.1946c London and traveling
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 1946.1990 Edinburgh
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.1995–96 Paris and traveling
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, 1996.2001–02 Frankfurt am Main
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.2007a Munich
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Gärten. Ordnung, Inspiration, Glück, April 5–July 8, 2007.2008 Frankfurt am Main
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.2008–09 Frankfurt am Main
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.2012–13 Budapest
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 42, ill.2017–18 Karlsruhe
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 19, ill.Published References
Rivière 1923
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.Fry 1929
Fry, Roger. "Cézannes Udvikling." Samleren 6 (July, August, September 1929), p. 117, ill.Vollard 1936
Vollard, Ambroise. Recollections of a Picture Dealer. Translated by Violet M. MacDonald. New York: Dover Publications, 1936, ill. opp. p. 28.Album Quatre Chemins 1936a
Album Quatre Chemins. Cézanne – Cinq aquarelles reproduites en facsimilé. Paris and New York: Quatre chemins and Raymond & Raymond, n.d. [1936], pl. 1.Venturi 1936b
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.New York Sun 1937
New York Sun. New York Sun, January 9, 1937, ill.Novotny 1937
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 98.Novotny 1938
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 51.Venturi 1943
Venturi, Lionello. Paul Cézanne: Water-colours. Oxford: B. Cassirer, 1943, p. 35, no. 23, ill. (dated 1883-87), Paul Cézanne fils, Paris.Nicodemi 1944
Nicodemi, Giogio. Cézanne: 76 Disegni. Milan: Görlich, 1944, no. 40, ill.Novotny 1947
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 1977a
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne on Solids and Spaces." Artforum 16, no. 2 (October 1977), p. 34, ill.Barskaya 1983a
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 134.Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 113, ill. and color pl. 18.Elderfield 1985
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.Verdi 1992
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 92, fig. 76.Coutagne et al. 1996
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 89.Simms 2008
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 81, fig. 59.Landrot 2010
Landrot, Gérard. Cézanne Aquarelles. Paris: Éditions Langlaude, 2010, p. 13, ill.Lloyd 2015
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 104, fig. 63.Marchesseau 2017
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 214, ill.Société Paul Cezanne 2019
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 8, 2021. 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 April 18, 2024).
