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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)
Catalogue entry
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)
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo (1917)
Exhibition History
1913 New York
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, 1913.1913 Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Armory Show, March 24–April 16, 1913, no. 44.1913 Boston
Copley Society of Boston, Copley Hall, Boston, Armory Show, April 28–May 19, 1913, no. 19.1914 Copenhagen
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.1914 Kristiania
Nasjonalgaleriet, Kristiania (Oslo), Norway, Fransk Kunst, September–October 1914, no. 19, as Landskap fra omegnen av Aix i Provence, lent by Galerie Vollard.1917 Stockholm
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, French Art, Spring 1917, no. 2, as Paysage, lent by Nasjonalgalleriet, Kristiania.1954 Oslo
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.1956 The Hague
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 19.1956 Zurich
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Paul Cézanne, August 22–October 7, 1956, no. 35.1956 Munich
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 25, lent by Nationalgalerie, Oslo.1959 Oslo
Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo, Norway, Franske Malere, 1959, ill., p. 31.1963 Hamburg
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.1974 Tokyo and traveling
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, 1974.1997–98 Stockholm
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Cézanne i blickpunkten, October 17, 1997–January 11, 1998, no. 9, ill., pp. 48–49 (dated c. 1879).2002–03 Treviso
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.2014a Madrid
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 48, ill.Published References
Jamot 1929
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 304, ill. vol. II, as Paysage près du Jas de Bouffan.Nasjonalgalleriet 1959
Franske Malere (Peintres français). Oslo: Nasjonalgalleriet, 1959, p. 31, ill. dated 1878–85?Brown 1963
Brown, Milton. The Story of the Armory Show. New York: J.H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1963, p. 229.Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute 1963
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 1974
Sutton, Denys. "The Paradoxes of Cézanne." Apollo (London) 100, no. 150 (August 1974), fig. 17 p. 107.Plazy 1981
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne. Fribourg: Editions Medea, 1981, p. 132.Rewald 1989
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 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. 405, ill. vol. 2, as Paysage près de Melun.Messel 2016
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 April 16, 2024).
