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Catalogue entry

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
Tate Gallery, London (Bequest of the Hon. Mrs. A.E. Pleydell-Bouverie)

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Georges Bernheim, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (January 8, 1920)
Wanamaker (January 3, 1924)
Walter Berry, Paris
Edith Wharton, Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt
H.J.P. Bomford, London
Matthiesen Gallery, London
Reid & Lefèvre, London (July 28, 1943)
The Hon. Mrs. A.E. Pleydell-Bouverie, London (Nov. 8, 1943);
Tate Gallery, London (1968)
Exhibition History
1910a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910.
1920a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paysages impressionnistes, February 16–March 4, 1920, no. 1.
1920d Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, December 1–18, 1920, no. 18, ill., as L'Allée, lent by Bernheim-Jeune.
1936c Paris
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.
1944 London
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.
1949–50 London
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.
1954a London
Tate Gallery, London, The Pleydell-Bouverie Collection of Impressionist and Other Paintings, January 26–April 25, 1954, no. 8.
1954 Edinburgh and traveling
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.
1963a London
Wildenstein Galleries, London, The French Impressionists and Some of Their Contemporaries, April 24–May 18, 1963, no. 19, ill. lent by Pleydell-Bouverie.
1988–89a London and traveling
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.
1990 Edinburgh
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 10, ill.
1995–96 Paris and traveling
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.
2006 Washington, D.C. and traveling
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.
2006–07 London
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).
2012–13 Budapest
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 41, ill.
2022–23 Chicago and traveling
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 17, ill. c. 1875–75. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Faure 1923a
Faure, Élie. P. Cézanne. Paris, 1923, pl. 38, as Sous-bois.
Rivière 1933
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 93.
Raynal 1936
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. XLII p. 71.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 47, ill. vol. II, as L'Allée du Jas de Bouffan.
Huyghe 1936d
Huyghe, René. Cézanne. Paris: Plon, Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1936, pl. 9.
Novotny 1938
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 50, fig. 38.
Barnes and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 41, p. 174, ill.
Gowing 1956
Gowing, Lawrence. "Notes on the Development of Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 98, no. 639 (June 1956), p. 187.
Gazette des beaux-arts 1969
"[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 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 7, ill.
Barskaya 1983a
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 133.
Düchting 1989
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 60, ill.
Verdi 1992
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 54, fig. 41.
Bonafoux 1995
Bonafoux, Pascal. Cézanne: portrait. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 90, ill.
Schmitt 1995
Schmitt, Evmarie. Cézanne in der Provence. München and New York: Prestel, 1995, p. 30.
Coutagne 1995b
Coutagne, Denis. "Les paysages." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 24.
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. 88.
Rewald 1996
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.
Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 101, fig. 57.
Coutagne 2004
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.
Schmidt 2004a
Schmidt, Bertram. Cézannes Lehre. Kiel: Ludwig, 2004, fig. 26.
Machotka 2008
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 2011
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 2015
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 et al. 2017
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.
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. 123 p. 140.
Dauberville 2020
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).

Les Marronniers et le bassin du Jas de Bouffan, 1868–70 (possibly later) (FWN 55). 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.
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 April 25, 2024).