The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
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FWN 89
La Maison du Jas de Bouffan
1876–78
Alternate titles: Der Jas de Bouffan; Le Jas de Bouffan; Maisons dans les arbres
Rewald (269): 1876–78; Venturi revised: 1883–85; Venturi (415): 1882–85; Ratcliffe: perhaps autumn 1874
Oil on canvas
23 3/16 x 28 in. (59 x 71 cm)
Private collection
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Tanner, Zurich, Franz. Meister des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, April 9–30, 1929, no. 1, as Maisons dans les arbres, lent by Private collection.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 37, as Der Jas de Bouffan, c. 1885, lent by Private collection, Zürich.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Ausländische Kunst in Zürich, July 25–September 26, 1943, no. 536, as Le Jas de Bouffan.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 19, ill., (dated c. 1874), lent by Private collection, courtesy Wildenstein. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Published References
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, pp. 104–05, ill. in color, as Le Jas de Bouffan, Cézanne fils.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 167, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 415, ill. vol. II, as La Maison du Jas de Bouffan.
Rewald, John. "Sources d'inspiration de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 104 p. 195, as Der Jas de Bouffan, 1874 (with photograph of the motif, fig. 101).
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 37.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 110, ill.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 93.
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. 269, ill. vol. 2, as La Maison 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. 115, ill. in color.
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, figs. 2, 279 pp. 12, 295 (fig. 280 photograph of motif, J. Rewald, c. 1935 p. 295).
Notes
An undated photograph by Thérèse Bonney shows Paul Cézanne fils seated in front of this painting: Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris
The Jas de Bouffan.
John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.
The Jas de Bouffan.
John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.
Photo: John Rewald, circa 1935; © Sabine Rewald
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Record last updated January 15, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Maison du Jas de Bouffan, 1876–78 (FWN 89)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=270 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
