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 112
Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan en hiver
c.1878
Alternate titles: Das Bassin im Park des Jas de Bouffan im Winter; Jas de Bouffan; Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan; Paysage; Paysage (Jas de Bouffan); Paysage d'hiver aux environs de Paris; Paysage de Provence; The Basin at the Jas de Bouffan; The basin of the Jas de Bouffan in winter; Winter Landscape; Winter Landscape (The Pool at the Jas de Bouffan)
Rewald (350): c.1878; Venturi revised: c.1882; Venturi (164): c.1878; Rivière: 1878; Cooper: winter 1881–82; Gowing: 1878 (Burlington)
Oil on canvas
18 1/2 x 22 1/8 in. (47 x 56.2 cm)
Private collection
Provenance
Private collection;
Private collection, Zurich
Private collection
Exhibition History
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, 3e exposition, October 18–November 25, 1905, no. 316, as Paysage.
New Gallery, London, Exhibition of the International Society, January–February 1906, no. 205, lent by Bernheim-Jeune.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 36, ill. lent by Lecomte, catalogued but not exhibited. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 40, pl. XVII, lent by private collection, Paris.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 53, ill. 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. 27, ill., as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan en hiver, 1878, lent by Corinne Cuellar-Nathan.
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne und die Moderne, October 10, 1999–January 9, 2000, no. 8, ill., p. 90, as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan en hiver.
Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Stadt Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany, Cézanne, Manet, Schuch: drei Wege zur autonomen Kunst, May 30–July 30, 2000, no. 6, ill., as Das Bassin im Park des Jas de Bouffan im Winter.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Au fil de l'eau: Cézanne, June 17–September 15, 2000, no. 9, ill., p. 15, lent by Private collection, Switzerland, shown beginning in August.
Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy, De Puvis de Chavannes à Matisse et Picasso: vers l'art moderne, February 10–June 6, 2002, no. 50, ill., as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan, 1878, lent by Private collection.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–1885, June 26–September 12, 2005, no. 85, ill., p. 185, as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan en hiver, lent by Private collection. Traveled to: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, October 20, 2005–January 16, 2006; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, February 27–May 28, 2006 (Cézanne et Pissarro 1865-1885).
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 22, ill. lent by Private collection. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Published References
Roger Fry. Atheneum (January 13, 1906), [review of the exhibition at the New Gallery and quoted in Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry, a Biography, London, 1940, p. 112}.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 206, as Paysage d'hiver aux environs de Paris.
Goulinat, J.-G. "Technique picturale: l'évolution du métier de Cézanne." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 5 (March 1, 1925), p. 23, ill., as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan.
Fry, Roger. "Le développement de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 7, no. 12 (December 1926), ill. p. 407, as Paysage de Provence.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, pp. 62-63, fig. 27, pl. XII.
Rewald, John, and Léo Marschutz. "Cézanne und der 'Jas de Bouffan.'" Forum, no. 9 (1935), p. 253, ill. (with photograph of motif).
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 164, ill. vol. II, as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan.
Rewald, John. Cézanne et Zola. Paris: Editions A. Sedrowski, 1936, fig. 37 (with photograph of motif).
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, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 47.
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 45 (with photograph of motif).
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 62, pl. XII fig. 27, as Winter Landscape.
Gowing, Lawrence. "Notes on the Development of Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 98, no. 639 (June 1956), p. 188.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 12, ill.
Kostenevich, Albert. Hidden Treasures Revealed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 181, fig. 3.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 84.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 48, fig. 23, with photograph of motif, fig. 22, as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan en hiver.
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. 350, ill. vol. 2, as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan en hiver.
Coutagne, Denis. "Approche contradictoire d'un thème: Le Jas de Bouffan chez Cézanne." In Cézanne aujourd'hui. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1997, p. 82.
Coutagne, Denis. "Cézanne au fil de l'eau." In Au fil de l'eau. Aix-en-Provence: Ville d'Aix-en-Provence, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 15, as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan en hiver.
Tanaka, Hidemichi. "Cézanne and 'Japonisme.'" Artibus et Historiae 22, no. 44 (2001), p. 205, fig. 6, as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan, with erroneous image (no. 236).
Coutagne, Denis. "The Jas de Bouffan Landscapes." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanné. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 110, ill. in color.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 35, ill., with photo of motif (c. 1935), p. 34, as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan en hiver.
Riley, Bridget. "Cézanne in Provence." The Burlington Magazine 148, no. 1242 (September 2006), p. 622, fig. 45, as The basin of the Jas de Bouffan in winter.
Grossvogel, Jill Elyse. "Towards a Rconstruction of the Schuffenecker Collection." In Claude-Emile Schuffenecker: catalogue raisonné: supplement, idem. Chicago: [s.n.], 2008, listed p. 37, as Jas de Bouffan.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 111; vol. 2, p. 88, as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan en hiver.
Arrouye, Jean. "L'eau, miroir de la peinture." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 160, fig. 79, as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan en hiver, size given: 52.5 x 56 cm.
Elam, Caroline. "Modern Vision and the 'Older Masters': Roger Fry's Cézanne." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 175, fig. 98, p. 165 (detail), as Winter Landscape (The Pool at the Jas de Bouffan).
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 81, fig. 20b, with black and white photo of motif, fig. 20a, as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan en hiver.
Nagaï, Takanori. "Cézanne and Jas de Bouffan." In Le "basho" dans l'art moderne français. Tokyo: Sangensha, 2016, p. 117, ill.
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. 143,144 (details), 151 (with a computer model of motif), 152, 285 pp. 155-156, 159-160, 298.
Clark, T.J. "Strange Apprentice
(T.J. Clark on Pissarro and Cézanne)." London Review of Books 42, no. 19 (October 8, 2020), ill.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 104, ill., as Paysage (Jas de Bouffan).
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. 165, fig. 8, as The Basin at the Jas de Bouffan.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "Cezanne and Constructivism, Historiography." In Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 4.
Smith, Paul. "Cezanne's Non-Constructive Line." In Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 12.
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 26.
Notes
The house behind the tree is the same as the one on the hill depicted in two earlier works [La Tranchée, 1867–68 (48)] and [La Tranchée avec la montagne Sainte-Victoire, c.1870 (54)]. Also related to this landscape is another winter scene [Les Marronniers du Jas de Bouffan en hiver, 1885–86 (216)], whereby Cézanne stood to the right of the pool to focus on the allée of bare chestnut trees.
There is a watercolor of the same subject, [Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan aux arbres dénudés, 1881–83 (1104)].
Photograph of the motif.
John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.
Photo: John Rewald, circa 1935; © Sabine Rewald
Site identified by John Rewald.
Photo: Pavel Machotka; © Courtesy Pavel Machotka Archive
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan en hiver, c.1878 (FWN 112)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=346 (accessed on May 14, 2025).
