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 215
Bassin et lavoir du Jas de Bouffan
1885–86
Alternate titles: Graveyard; La Fontaine; Le Jas de Bouffan; Le Jas de Bouffan (Aix-en-Provence); Le Jas de Bouffan or Les Marronniers du Jas de Bouffan; Les Marronniers; Les marronniers du Jas de Bouffan; Les Marronniers, Jas de Bouffan; Paysage; The Pool at the Jas de Bouffan
Rewald (566): 1885–86; Venturi revised: 1890–94; Venturi (648): 1888–90; Rivière: 1887; Cooper: c.1883 (Metropolitan Museum cat.); Machotka et al: 1887–89
Oil on canvas
25 1/2 x 31 13/16 in. (64.8 x 80.9 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3751, huile. deux grands arbres à fourche, au loin comme une crête de montagne, 65 x 81 cm (200 frs)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Société des artistes indépendants, Grandes serres de l'Exposition universelle (Cours-la-reine), Paris, 17e exposition, April 20–May 21, 1901, no. 155, as Paysage, lent by Vollard.
La Libre Esthétique, Brussels, Exposition des peintres impressionnistes, February 25–March 29, 1904, no. 17, as La Fontaine, lent by Baron Cochin; tentative identification.
Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, Cinquante ans de peinture française, 1875-1925, May 28–July 12, 1925, no. 13, ill., as Les marronniers du Jas de Bouffan, 1887, lent by Bernheim-Jeune.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition rétrospective Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) au profit de la caisse du Monument Cézanne, June 1–30, 1926. (listed in the 1935 Stockholm exhibition catalogue as having been included in exhibition).
Knoedler Galleries, New York, The Landscape in French Painting: XIX–XX Centuries, October–November 1931, no. 23, ill., as Le Jas de Bouffan (Aix-en-Provence).
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 311, (dated 1887), lent by Knoedler.
Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Les etapes de l’art contemporain, II, Gauguin, ses Amis: l’école de Pont-Aven et l’académie Julien, February 26–March 25, 1934, no. 27, as Le Jas de Bouffan, lent by Bernheim-Jeune.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Ecole de 1830, Ecole impressionniste, Ecole post-impressionniste, May 28–June 1934.
Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Quelques tableaux d'Ingres à Gauguin, June 11–July 13, 1935, no. 2, as Les marronniers du Jas de Bouffan.
Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, Mästerverk i fransk 1800-talskonst [Masterpieces of 19th century French art], December 1–31, 1935, no. 2, ill., as Les Marronniers, Jas de Bouffan, lent by Philip Sandblom.
Century Association, New York, Paintings from the Stephen C. Clark Collection, June 6–September 28, 1946.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, A Collector's Taste: Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Clark, January 12–30, 1954, no. 10, ill.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 36, ill. lent by S.C. Clark.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1958, no. 17, as Graveyard, lent by Stephen C. Clark.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1959, no. 10, lent by Stephen C. Clark.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1960, no. 10, lent by Stephen C. Clark.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture Collected by Yale Alumni, May 19–June 26, 1960, no. 75.
Rijksmuseum Vincent Van Gogh, Amsterdam, Franse meesters uit het Metropolitan Museum of Art: Realisten en Impressionisten, March 15–May 31, 1987, no. 25.
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 43, ill.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 30, ill., as Bassin et lavoir du Jas de Bouffan, 1885-86, lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Public Parks, Private Gardens: Paris to Provence, March 12–July 29, 2018, p. 97, fig. 98.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cezanne au Jas de Bouffan, June 28–October 12, 2025, no. 13bis, ill., as Bassin et lavoir du Jas de Bouffan, dated ci. 1885–86.
Published References
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. Cézanne. With contributions by O. Mirbeau, T. Duret, L. Werth, et al. Paris: Editions Hollande, 1914, pl. LV.
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. L'Art moderne et quelques aspects de l'art d'autrefois: cent-soixante-treize planches d'après la collection privée de MM. J. & G. Bernheim-Jeune, poèmes de Henri de Régnier , 2 vols. Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1919, pl. 36.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 214, listed.
"L'actualité artistique." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 12 (June 15, 1925), ill. p. [21], as Les marronniers du Jas de Bouffan.
Tatlock, R.R. "An Exhibition of French Landscapes in New York." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 59, no. 343 (October 1931), p. 194, fig. A pl. II p. [195], as Le Jas de Bouffan.
Richard, Marius. "Au profit des 'Amis de Delacroix': Gauguin et son temps." La Liberté, February 28, 1934, p. 4, as Le Jas de Bouffan.
Hoppe, Ragnar. "Från Corot till van Gogh: Femton mästerverk av franska målare och bildhuggare i Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet [From Corot to van Gogh: Fifteen masterpieces by French painters and sculptors in the Swedish-French Art Gallery]." Konstrevy (Stockholm) XI (1935), ill. p. 166, as Les Marronniers, Jas de Bouffan.
Rewald, John, and Léo Marschutz. "Cézanne und der 'Jas de Bouffan.'" Forum, no. 9 (1935), p. 235 (ill. with photo. of motif).
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 648, ill. vol. II, as Bassin et lavoir du Jas de Bouffan.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 45.
Sterling, Charles, and Margaretta M. Salinger. French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. III. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1967, pp. 104–05, ill.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 60, ill (reversed).
Baetjer, Katherine. European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980, p. 26, ill. p. 615.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 134.
Moffett, Charles S. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1985, pp. 186–87, ill.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 17, ill.
Schmitt, Evmarie. Cézanne in der Provence. München and New York: Prestel, 1995, pp. 66-7.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 132, fig. 118, with photographs of the motif, figs. 116 and 117, as Bassin et lavoir du Jas de Bouffan, dated 1880–90.
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. 566, ill. vol. 2, as Bassin et lavoir du Jas de Bouffan.
Coutagne, Denis. "The Jas de Bouffan Landscapes." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanné. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 101, ill. in color.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 43, ill. with photos of motif (c. 1935 and c. 1976), p. 42, as Bassin et lavoir du Jas de Bouffan.
Jensen, Robert. "Vollard and Cézanne: An Anatomy of a Relationship." In Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 35, fig. 36, as The Pool at the Jas de Bouffan.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 226; vol. 2, p. 155, as Bassin et lavoir du Jas de Bouffan.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 125, fig. 41c, with black and white and color photos of motif, figs. 41a and 41b, as Bassin et lavoir du Jas de Bouffan, dated 1887–89.
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. 293 p. 302 (figs. 294-295 photographs of motif, J. Rewald, c. 1935, P. Machotka, 1977 p. 302).
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 100, ill., as Le Jas de Bouffan or Les Marronniers du Jas de Bouffan, photograph of painting in the Bernheim-Jeune residence at 107 avenue Henri Martin, p. 9.
Trees in front of the pool at the Jas de Bouffan.
John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washignton, D.C.
Photo: John Rewald, circa 1935; © Sabine Rewald
Site identified by John Rewald.
Photo: Pavel Machotka, 1977; © Courtesy Pavel Machotka Archive
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Bassin et lavoir du Jas de Bouffan, 1885–86 (FWN 215)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=553 (accessed on July 11, 2025).
