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 141
Paysage près de Melun
c.1879
Alternate titles: Landschaft beim Jas-de-Bouffan; Landskab fra Omegnen af Aix; "Jas de Bouffon" [sic]; Landskap fra omegnen av Aix i Provence; Melun; Paesaggio nei pressi di Melun; Paysage; Paysage de Provence; Paysage près du Jas de Bouffan
Rewald (405): c.1879; Venturi revised: c.1878; Venturi (304): 1878–83
Oil on canvas
23 5/8 x 28 11/16 in. (60 x 73 cm)
Exhibition History
Armory of the Sixty-Ninth Regiment, New York, International Exhibition of Modern Art [Armory Show], February 17–March 15, 1913, no. 220, as Melun, lent by Vollard. Traveled to: Art Institute, Chicago, March 24–April 15, 1913; Copley Hall, Boston, April 28–May 18, 1913.
Copley Society of Boston, Copley Hall, Boston, Armory Show, April 28–May 19, 1913, no. 19.
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark, Fransk Malerkunst fra det 19nde Aarhundrede [French Art of the Nineteenth Century], May 15–June 30, 1914, no. 23, as Landskab fra Omegnen af Aix; "Jas de Bouffon" [sic], lent by Vollard.
Nasjonalgaleriet, Kristiania (Oslo), Norway, Fransk Kunst, September–October 1914, no. 19, as Landskap fra omegnen av Aix i Provence, lent by Galerie Vollard.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, French Art, Spring 1917, no. 2, as Paysage, lent by Nasjonalgalleriet, Kristiania.
Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway, Paul Cezanne: 28 malerier, November 13–December 1, 1954, no. 11, as Paysage près du Jas de Bouffan, lent by Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo.
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 19.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 25, lent by Nationalgalerie, Oslo.
Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany, Wegbereiter der modernen Malerei: Cézanne, Gauguin, van Gogh, Seurat, May 4–July 14, 1963, no. 8, pl. 53, as Landschaft beim Jas-de-Bouffan, 1878-85, lent by National Gallery, Oslo.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 23. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Cézanne i blickpunkten, October 17, 1997–January 11, 1998, no. 9, ill., pp. 48–49 (dated c. 1879).
Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso, Italy, L'impressionismo e l'età di Van Gogh, October 9, 2002–March 30, 2003, no. 37, ill., as Paesaggio nei pressi di Melun, 1879, lent by Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 48, ill.
Published References
Jamot, Paul. "L'art français en Norvège." La Renaissance (Paris; New York), vol. 12, no. 2 (February 1929), p. 89, as Paysage de Provence, Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 304, ill. vol. II, as Paysage près du Jas de Bouffan.
Franske Malere (Peintres français). Oslo: Nasjonalgalleriet, 1959, p. 31, ill. dated 1878–85?
Brown, Milton. The Story of the Armory Show. New York: J.H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1963, p. 229.
1913 Armory Show: 50th Anniversary Exhibition. New York and Utica: Henry Street Settlement and Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1963. Exhibition catalogue, p. 185 (listed as Jas de Bouffan).
Sutton, Denys. "The Paradoxes of Cézanne." Apollo (London) 100, no. 150 (August 1974), fig. 17 p. 107.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 192, 194, fig. 98.
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. 405, ill. vol. 2, as Paysage près de Melun.
Messel, Nils. The Impressionist Trail, The What, Where, and Whither of French Masterpieces in Norway. Oslo: Messel Forlag, Oslo in collaboration with Daniel Katz Gallery, London, 2016, p. 96, ill.
Record last updated July 30, 2018. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Paysage près de Melun, c.1879 (FWN 141)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=399 (accessed on March 16, 2025).
