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 1164
L'Allée au Jas de Bouffan
1885–87
Alternate titles: Allée et maisons du jas de Bouffan; Avenue at the Jas de Bouffan; Avenue du Jas de Bouffan; Avenue of the Jas de Bouffan; Kastanienallee im Garten des Jas de Bouffan; Le Jas de Bouffon [sic]; The Avenue of Jas de Bouffan
Venturi (1495): 1886–90; Chappuis (916): 1884–87
Graphite on paper
Watermark: JV
12 1/16 x 18 13/16 in. (30.7 x 47.8 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Flechtheim, Berlin, Cézanne, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen; Bronzen von Edgar Degas, May 19–June 16, 1927, no. 58, as Le Jas de Bouffon [sic], for sale.
Galerie Flechtheim, Berlin, Seit Cézanne in Paris, November 23–December 24, 1929, no. 30. Traveled to: Galerie Flechtheim, Düsseldorf, Germany, January 12 – end February 1930.
Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Teekeningen van Ingres tot Seurat, December 20, 1933–January 21, 1934, no. 9.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Teekeningen van Fransche meesters 1800 - 1900, February 1946, no. 15, ill.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 73, ill. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 88, ill. p. 185, as Kastanienallee im Garten des Jas de Bouffan, 1884-1887, lent by Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
Musée Saint-Georges, Liège, Belgium, Cézanne, March 12–May 9, 1982, no. 40, ill., as Avenue du Jas de Bouffan, 1885-87, lent by Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 12–August 31, 1982 (exhibition catalogue; preface by Denis Coutagne).
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne, June 12–August 31, 1982, no. 40, ill., as Avenue du Jas de Bouffan, 1885-87, lent by Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 53, ill. in b/w, as Avenue at the Jas de Bouffan, lent by Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 98, ill. in color, p. 270, as Allée et maisons du jas de Bouffan, 1884-1887, lent by Museum Boymans, Rotterdam. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 31, ill., as L'Allée au Jas de Bouffan, 1885-87, lent by Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
Published References
Rewald, John, and Léo Marschutz. "Cézanne et la Provence." Le Point 4 (August 1936), p. 6, ill. (with photograph of the subject).
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1495, ill. vol. II, as Allée et maisons du jas de Bouffan, and photograph of the motif as no. 1593.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 53.
Hoetink, Bernard. Franse Tekeningen uit de 19e Eeuw. Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, 1968, no. 35, ill. dated 1885–87.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 916, ill., as Avenue of the Jas de Bouffan.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 94, ill., as Avenue du Jas de Bouffan, 1884-87.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Die Zeichnungen Cézannes: Kleine Formate: Skizzen. Grosse Formate: Aquarelle ohne Farbe." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 222, ill.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 168, fig. 3, as The Avenue of Jas de Bouffan.
Record last updated October 28, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Allée au Jas de Bouffan, 1885–87 (FWN 1164)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2600 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
