The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
Catalogue entry
FWN 215
Bassin et lavoir du Jas de Bouffan
1885–86
Alternate titles: La Fontaine; Le Jas de Bouffan; Le Jas de Bouffan (Aix-en-Provence); Les marroniers du Jas de Bouffan; Les Marronniers; 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
Grandes Serres, Paris, Artistes Indépendants, 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.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 6–17, 1914, no. 23, as Les Marronniers, lent by Private collection.
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, Cinquante Ans de peinture française, 1875-1925, May 28–July 12, 1925, no. 13, ill., (dated 1887), as Les marroniers du Jas de Bouffan, lent by Bernheim-Jeune.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Rétrospective Paul Cézanne, June 1–30, 1926, the 1935 Stockholm exhibition catalogue lists this work 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).
Knoedler Galleries, New York, French Landscapes, November 30–December 19, 1931, no. 13.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 311, (dated 1887), lent by Knoedler.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1934.
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–March 1934, no. 27, as Le Jas de Bouffan, lent by Bernheim-Jeune.
Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, Mästerwerk i Fransk 1800: Talskonst, December 1–31, 1935, no. 2, ill., as Les Marronniers, Jas de Bouffan, lent by Philip Sandblom.
Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Quelques Tableaux d'Ingres à Gauguin, June 11–July 13, 1935, no. 2.
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.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1959, no. 10.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture Collected by Yale Alumni, May 19–June 26, 1960, no. 75.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1960, no. 10.
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.
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.
Rewald, John, and Léo Marschutz. "Cézanne und der 'Jas de Bouffan.'" Forum, no. 9 (1935), p. 235 (ill. with photo. of motif).
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. XLVI.
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, p. 199, no. 45, list of motifs.
Guerry, Liliane. Cézanne et l'expression de l'espace. Paris: Flammarion, 1950, p. 76.
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).
Barskaya, Anna. Paul Cézanne. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1975, p. 171, ill.
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.
Moffett, Charles S. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1985, pp. 186–87, ill.
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 210, 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.
Record last updated July 31, 2018. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. "Bassin et lavoir du Jas de Bouffan, 1885–86 (FWN 215)." The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=553 (accessed on July 21, 2019).
