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Catalogue entry

FWN 57
Bosquet au Jas de Bouffan
c.1871
Alternate title: Paysage
Rewald (234): c.1871; Venturi revised: c.1876; Venturi (159): 1875–76
Oil on canvas
14 3/8 x 21 3/8 in. (36.5 x 54.5 cm)
Kokuyo Co. Ltd, Osaka (on deposit at Hiroshima Museum of Art, D038)

Keywords

Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Galerie E. Bignou, Paris
Henry F. Odell
Galerie Max Kaganovich, Paris, and Knoedler Galleries, New York (June 1954)
Harold and Mary Gershinowitz, New York (March 1956)
[Knoedler Galleries, New York (Nov. 25, 1959)]
John D. Rockefeller, New York (Jan. 4, 1960)
Paul Pétridès, Paris;
Christie's, London, June 28, 1968, no. 23, ill.; bought in (?)
Sotheby's at Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, Oct. 31, 1969, no. 355, ill.
Kokuyo Co. Ltd, Osaka, Japan
Exhibition History
1939 Lyon
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 16, lent by Cézanne fils.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 159, ill. vol. II, as Paysage.
Barnes and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 38, listed.
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. 234, ill. vol. 2, as Bosquet au Jas de Bouffan.
Coutagne 2004
Coutagne, Denis. "The Jas de Bouffan Landscapes." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanné. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 112, ill. in color.
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. 129 p. 143.
Notes

The motif here is the same as in FWN88.

Ratcliffe detected vertical tears in the canvas, that had been skillfully restored.

Rewald (1996, p. 168) noted that the brushstrokes in this painting are more like those used before he worked in Auvers-sur-Oise and, hence the date adopted here.

Bosquet au Jas de Bouffan, c.1871 (FWN 57). Cézanne fils standing in front of Nature morte, 1892–94 and Bosquet au Jas de Bouffan, c.1871; he sold the still life in order to pay for his daughter Aline's wedding.
Cézanne fils standing in front of Nature morte, 1892–94 and Bosquet au Jas de Bouffan, c.1871; he sold the still life in order to pay for his daughter Aline's wedding.
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. "Bosquet au Jas de Bouffan, c.1871 (FWN 57)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=238 (accessed on May 1, 2025).