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 116
Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan
c.1878
Alternate titles: Das Bassin im Park des Jas de Buffan; Jas de Bouffan; Le Jas de Bouffan; The pool at the Jas de Bouffan
Rewald (380): c.1878; Venturi revised: 1883–85; Cézanne fils: 1880; Venturi (417): 1882–85; Machotka et al: 1881–82
Oil on canvas
29 x 23 1/5 in. (73.7 x 59.7 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3669, huile; paysage; au 1r plan une sorte de bassin, à gauche gros arbre, à dr[oite] plusieurs arbres, ciel d'un gris noirâtre, 74 x 60 cm (150 frs)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, 1927.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Paul Cézanne, January 1928, no. 12, as Jas de Bouffan, lent by Albright Art Gallery.
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Buffalo, New York, [Goodyear Collection], June–August 1928, no. 4, ill.
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Buffalo, New York, Exhibition Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the Opening of the Albright Art Gallery, November–December 1930, no. 11.
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November 10–December 10, 1934, no. 12, (dated c. 1880–85), as Jas de Bouffan, lent by Albright Art Gallery.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Opening Exhibition (Modern French Painting), 1935, no. 2, lent by Albright Art Gallery.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 14, ill. lent by Albright Art Gallery.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 24, ill. lent by Albright Art Gallery.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, The Art of Cézanne, January 7–February 5, 1950, as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan, lent by Albright Art Gallery.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 24, ill. lent by Albright Art Gallery.
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 111 (supplement), c. 1878-1880, lent by Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition Cézanne: Tableaux, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 1–August 15, 1961, no. 49.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Olympia's Progeny: French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings (1865-1905), October 28–November 27, 1965, no. 38, ill., as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan, 1882-85, lent by The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Paintings from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, May 19–July 21, 1968, ill., p. 14.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 7, 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, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 20, ill.
Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Stadt Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany, Cézanne, Manet, Schuch: drei Wege zur autonomen Kunst, May 30–July 30, 2000, no. 7, ill., as Das Bassin im Park des Jas de Buffan.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–1885, June 26–September 12, 2005, no. 98, ill., p. 206 (dated c. 1878–79), as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan. 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).
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 19, ill.
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 24, ill. lent by Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo.
Published References
Hekking, William M. "April at the Albright Art Gallery." Buffalo Arts Journal IX, no. 4 (April 1927), pp. 220–21, detail.
"Academy Notes." Buffalo Fine Arts Academy XXI, no. 1 (May 1930), p. 12, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 417, ill. vol. II, as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan.
Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff. Paintings and Sculpture in the Permanent Collection. Buffalo: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1949, p. 66, no. 30, ill.
Reff, Theodore. "A New Cézanne Exhibition." The Burlington Magazine 102, no. 684 (March 1960), p. 117.
Hoog, Michel. Cézanne "Puissant et solitaire". Paris: Gallimard, 1989, ill. center pages 50–51.
Kostenevich, Albert. Hidden Treasures Revealed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 180, fig. 2.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 83.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 125, fig. 101, with photograph of the motif, fig. 100, as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan, dated 1882–85.
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. 380, ill. vol. 2, as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan.
Brettell, Richard. "Pioneering Modern Painting: the Cézanne and Pissarro exhibition." The Burlington Magazine 147, no. 1231 (October 2005), p. 684, fig. 42, as The pool at the Jas de Bouffan, c. 1878-79.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 41, ill. with photo of motif (c. 1976), p. 40, as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 164; vol. 2, p. 117, as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 91, fig. 25b, with color photo of motif, fig. 25a, as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan, dated 1881–82.
Salmon, Dimitri. Le "Saint Joseph charpentier" de Georges de La Tour: un don au Louvre de Percy Moore Turner. Gand: Snoeck, 2018, p. 397.
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. 287 p. 299 (fig. 288 photograph of motif, J. Rewald, c. 1960 p. 299).
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 105, ill., as Le Jas de Bouffan.
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. "Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan, c.1878 (FWN 116)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=376 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
