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Catalogue entry

FWN 92
Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan
c.1876
Alternate titles: "Mon Jardin"; Jas de Bouffan; Jas de Bouffan, le bassin; Jas de Bouffan: Le Bassin; Jas de Bouffon [sic]; Landschaft; Le Jas de Bouffan; Le Jas de Bouffant [sic]; Mon Jardin
Rewald (278): c.1876; Venturi revised: c.1876; Cézanne fils: 1885; Venturi (167): 1875–76; Rivière: 1885; Gowing: 1875 or 1876
Oil on canvas
19 5/16 x 21 5/8 in. (49 x 55 cm)
18 3/16 x 22 3/16 in. (46.1 x 56.3 cm) ((Hermitage))
Vollard A stockbook: no. 4168, paysage (Exposition Centennale), 45 x 55 cm
Vollard archives: photo no. 6, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1885
Dr. Otto Krebs, Weimar, Germany (presently at The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg)

Keywords

Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (June 21, 1913)
Paul Cassirer, Berlin (March, 1914)
Adele (Frau Georg) Wolde, Bremen (March, 1914)
Karl Neumann, Barmen
Galerie Thannhauser, Lucerne (Aug. 19, 1924)
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (Feb. 15, 1926)
Galerie Thannhauser, Berlin
Dr. Otto Krebs, Weimar (presently at State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg)
Exhibition History
1900 Paris
Exposition Universelle, Grand Palais, Paris, Centennale de l'Art français, 1800–1899, April 15–October 15, 1900, no. 88, as Mon Jardin, lent by Vollard [on behalf of Cézanne fils].
1904 Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Sonderausstellung Paul Cézanne, April 22–June 15, 1904, no number, as "Mon Jardin".
1907a Paris
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Rétrospective d'oeuvres de Cézanne, October 1–22, 1907, no. 26, as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan, lent by Cézanne fils.
1914a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 6–17, 1914, no. 5, as Le Jas de Bouffant [sic], for sale.
1914 Bremen
Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany, Internationale Ausstellung, February 1–March 31, 1914, no. 74, as Jas de Bouffon [sic], lent by Bernheim-Jeune, for sale.
1918 Bremen
Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany, Ausstellung von Meisterwerken der modernen Malerei aus Bremischen Privatbesitz, May 15–June 12, 1918, no. 4, as Le Jas de Bouffan, lent by Adele Wolde.
1922 Bremen
Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany, [Ausstellung von Franzosen und Neuerwerbungen in der Bremer Kunsthalle], Summer 1922, as Jas de Bouffan.
1926b Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition rétrospective Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) au profit de la caisse du Monument Cézanne, June 1–30, 1926, no. 44, as Le Jas de Bouffan, lent by Bernheim-Jeune.
1927b New York
De Hauke & Co, New York, The Classics of Modern Painting, April 12–23, 1927, no. 7.
1995–96 St. Petersburg
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Hidden Treasures Revealed: Impressionist Masterpieces and Other Important French Paintings Preserved by The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, 1995–96, no. 46, ill., pp. 176–81.
1998 St. Petersburg and traveling
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 6, ill., (size: 46.1 x 56.3 cm). Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).
Published References
Duret 1907
Duret, Théodore. "Paul Cézanne." Kunst und Künstler 5, no. 3 (1907), ill. p. 100, as Landschaft.
Alten 1914
Alten, Wilken von. "Die internationale Ausstellung in der Bremer Kunsthalle." Kunst und Künstler 12, no. 7 (1914), p. 386, as Jas de Bouffan.
Waldmann 1918
E.[mil] W.[aldmann]. "Ausstellungen: Bremen." Kunst und Künstler 16, no. 9 (1918), p. 357, as Jas de Bouffan.
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 212, listed, ill. p. 57, as Mon Jardin.
Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 1925
"[no article]." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 6, no. 134 (July 1, 1925), p. 294, ill.
Anonymous 1926
Anonymous. "L'exposition du peintre aixois Paul Cézanne." Le Petit Provençal, June 2, 1926, p. 2, as Le Jas de Bouffan.
Dormoy 1926a
Dormoy, Marie, translated by Margarete Mauthner. "Die Cézanne - Ausstellung bei Bernheim-Jeune." Kunst und Künstler 24, no. 11 (1926), p. 448.
Tabarant 1926b
T.[abarant], [Adolphe]. "L'exposition Cézanne." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 7, no. 12 (June 15, 1926), ill. p. [178], as Le Jas de Bouffan.
Pfister 1927
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 47, as Landschaft.
Waldmann 1927
Waldmann, Emil. Die Kunst des Realismus und des Impressionismus. Berlin: Propyläen-Verlag, 1927, p. 496, ill.
Fage 1930
Fage, André. Le collectionneur de peintures modernes: comment acheter, comment vendre. Paris: Éditions Pittoresques, 1930, pl. IX, as Le Jas de Bouffan.
Rivière 1933
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 129, ill.
Hazama, Adachi, and Nakogawa, eds. 1935
Hazama, Mosuke, Genichiri Adachi, and Kaziamasa Nakogawa, eds. Recueil important des oeuvres de Paul Cézanne. Vol. 1: Paysages, edited by Hazama. Vol. 2: Portraits et Nus., edited by Adachi. Vol. 3: Nature-mortes., edited by Nakogawa. Tokyo: Atorie-sha, 1935, vol. 1, Paysages, pl. 8.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 167, ill. vol. II, as Jas de Bouffan: Le Bassin.
Vollard 1937
Vollard, Ambroise. Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux. Paris: Albin Michel, 1937, pl. 31.
Rewald 1937a
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 56.
Novotny 1938
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 46, fig. 28.
Vollard 1938
Vollard, Ambroise. En écoutant Cézanne, Degas, Renoir. Paris: B. Grasset, 1938, p. 82, as Mon Jardin.
Rivière 1942
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 135, ill.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 34, listed p. 148.
Cachin and Rishel 1995
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 183, fig. 1.
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. 278, ill. vol. 2, as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan.
Brader, Frauke C. 2001
"Meisterwerke im Verborgenem: die Sammlung Krebs." In Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: französische Kunst in deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, edited by Andrea Pophanken and Felix Billeter. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001, pp. 293, 294, 295.
Coutagne 2004
Coutagne, Denis. "The Jas de Bouffan Landscapes." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanné. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 114, ill. in color.
Société Paul Cézanne 2005
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 39, ill., with photo of motif (c. 1935), p. 38, as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan.
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. 28.
Echte and Feilchenfeldt 2011b
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Paul Cézanne, 22. April bis 15. Juni 1904." Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1901-1905. vol. 2, "Man steht da und staunt". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2011, p. 500, ill.
Oberländer 2015
Oberländer, Ulrike. "Der Kunstsammler Dr. Otto Krebs, seine Lebensgefährtin Frieda Kwast-Hodapp und das Rittergut Holzdorf." Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 2015, cat. no. 91, pp. 126, 127, 129, 637, 674-675, ill., as Jas de Bouffan, le bassin.
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. 119, figs. 164-165 (with computer models of motif), fig. 281 pp. 136, 169, 296 (fig. 282 p. 296 photograph of motif, J. Rewald, c. 1935).
Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 103, ill., as Le Jas de Bouffan, installation photograph from 1914 exhibition, p. 101.
Notes

In spite of the Vollard stockbook entry, the work was not for sale. Vollard simply acted as agent for the artist, who lent the landscape to the Exposition Centennale in 1900.

Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan, c.1876 (FWN 92). Photograph by Lionello Venturi, 1933–35 (Courtesy Archivio di Lionello Venturi, Department of Art History and Performance, Sapienza University, Rome)
Photograph by Lionello Venturi, 1933–35 (Courtesy Archivio di Lionello Venturi, Department of Art History and Performance, Sapienza University, Rome)
Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan, c.1876 (FWN 92). The pool and orangery of the Jas de Bouffan. John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.
The pool and orangery of 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
Record last updated April 12, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan, c.1876 (FWN 92)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=3 (accessed on April 25, 2024).