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 55
Les Marronniers et le bassin du Jas de Bouffan
1868–70 (possibly later)
Alternate titles: L'Allée; L'Allée du Jas de Bouffan; Sous-bois; The Avenue at the Jas de Bouffan; The Avenue at the Jas de Bouffan (Chestnut Trees and Basin at the Jas de Bouffan)
Rewald (158): 1868–70 (possibly later); Venturi revised: c.1871; Venturi (47): 1867–69; Cooper: c.1875; Gowing: c.1871 (Edinburgh) and possibly 1874 (Burlington); Other: Novotny: c.1871
Oil on canvas
14 5/8 x 17 5/16 in. (37 x 44 cm)
15 x 18 1/8 in. (38.1 x 46 cm) (London 2006–07 catalogue)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3513, huile; sous bois avec une route au premier plan, 38 x 46 cm (250 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 337, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Jas de Bouffan, 1875–80
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paysages impressionnistes, February 16–March 4, 1920, no. 1.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, December 1–18, 1920, no. 18, ill., as L'Allée, lent by Bernheim-Jeune.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 24, as L'Allée du Jas de Bouffan, lent by Edith Wharton, Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Constable to Cézanne, December 4–24, 1944, no. 41, as L'Allée du Jas de Bouffan, lent by the Hon. Mrs. Plyedell-Bouverie.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Landscape in French Art, 1550–1900, December 10, 1949–March 5, 1950, no. 312, as The Avenue at the Jas de Bouffan, 1867-69, lent by the Hon Mrs A.E. Pleydell-Bouverie.
Tate Gallery, London, The Pleydell-Bouverie Collection of Impressionist and Other Paintings, January 26–April 25, 1954, no. 8.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 8, as L'Allée du Jas de Bouffan, c. 1871, lent by Mrs. A.E. Pleydell-Bouverie. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, The French Impressionists and Some of Their Contemporaries, April 24–May 18, 1963, no. 19, ill. lent by Pleydell-Bouverie.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 60, ill. shown in London only. Traveled to: Musée d'Orsay, Cézanne: les années de jeunesse 1859-1872, Paris, September 19, 1988–January 1, 1989; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., January 29–April 30, 1989.
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 10, ill.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 24, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 17, ill., (dated 1874–75). Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
National Gallery, London, Cézanne in Britain, October 4, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 9, ill., as The Avenue at the Jas de Bouffan (Chestnut Trees and Basin at the Jas de Bouffan) (size: 38.1 x 46 cm).
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 41, ill.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 17, ill. c. 1875–75. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 47, ill. vol. II, as L'Allée du Jas de Bouffan.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 50, fig. 38.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 41, p. 174, ill.
Gowing, Lawrence. "Notes on the Development of Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 98, no. 639 (June 1956), p. 187.
"[Aquisitions des musées du monde entier]." La Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 1201 (February 1969), p. 98, no. 403, ill., as L'Allée du Jas de Bouffan, c. 1871.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 7, ill.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 133.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 60, ill.
Coutagne, Denis. "Les paysages." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 24.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 88.
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 158, ill. vol. 2, as Les Marronniers et le bassin du Jas de Bouffan.
Coutagne, Denis. "The Jas de Bouffan Landscapes." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanné. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 107, ill. in color.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 43; vol. 2, p. 51, as Les Marronniers et le bassin du Jas de Bouffan, dated c. 1871.
Novotny, Fritz. Paul Cézanne: Gesammelte Schriften zu seinem Werk und Materialien aus dem Nachlaß. Introduction by Gabriel Ramin Schor (editor), Agnes Blaha (assistance). Vienna: Klever, 2011, fig. 38.
Callen, Anthea. The Work of Art: Plein-air Painting and Artistic Identiy in the Nineteenth-century France. London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2015, p. 189, fig. 146, as The Avenue at the Jas de Bouffan, c. 1874-5.
Eiling, Alexander, Anett Göthe, Astrid Reuter, Bettina Kaufmann, Eva-Maria Höllerer, Juliane Betz and Julia Lachenmann. "Catalog." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 183 fig. 2.
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. 123 p. 140.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 89, ill., as L'Allée, installation photograph from 1910 exhibition, p. 85.
Notes
This painting is Cézanne's earliest representation of the avenue of chestnut trees at the Jas de Bouffan. Gowing noted that this work "evidently owes something to the avenues painted in the sixties by Pissarro." (Edinburgh and London, 1954).
The allée of chestnut trees as the Jas de Bouffan.
John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washignton, D.C.
Photo: John Rewald, circa 1935; © Sabine Rewald
Record last updated April 30, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Les Marronniers et le bassin du Jas de Bouffan, 1868–70 (possibly later) (FWN 55)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=166 (accessed on December 2, 2024).
