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 245
L'Allée à Chantilly
1888
Alternate titles: Allee bei Chantilly; Alley in Chantilly; Avenue at Chantilly; Durchblick durch einen Park; Durchblick durch einen Parkweg; L'Allée à Chantilly; L'Allée à Chantilly, II; Tree-Lined Path, Avenue at Chantilly
Rewald (615): 1888; Venturi revised: 1888; Venturi (626): 1888; Rivière: 1888
Oil on canvas
31 7/8 x 25 5/8 in. (81 x 65 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3680, huile; esquisse d'arbres faisant berceau au milieu desquels une barrière [ ] lequel au loin des maisons indiquées, 81 x 65 cm (100 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 260, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Chantilly 1887
Provenance
Exhibition History
Städtische Ausstellungshalle, Cologne, Internationale Kunstausstellung des Sonderbundes Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, May 25–September 30, 1912, no. 138, as Durchblick durch einen Parkweg.
Paul Rosenberg, Paris, Exposition Cézanne (1839-1906), organisée à l'occasion de son centenaire au profit de l’œuvre de l'allaitement maternel, February 21–April 1, 1939, no. 22, ill., as L'Allée à Chantilly, 1888, lent by Mrs. Beatty.
Rosenberg & Helft, London, Exhibition Cézanne (1839-1906) to celebrate his centenary, April 19–May 20, 1939, no. 14, ill., (dated 1888), lent by Mrs. Beatty.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 83, ill., as L'Allée à Chantilly, II. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, 1912, Mission Moderne: Die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes, August 31–December 30, 2012, no. 20, ill., pp. 344–45, as Allee bei Chantilly, lent by National Gallery, London.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, possible loan, hors catalogue.
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary, Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction, October 28, 2021–February 13, 2022, no. 47, ill.
Published References
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 144.
Gasquet, Joachim. "Ce qu'il m'a dit … Le motif." L'Amour de l'art 1, no. 8 (December 1920), ill. p. 261, as L'Allée à Chantilly.
Fontainas, André and Louis Vauxcelles. "Paul Cézanne." Histoire générale de l'art français de la Révolution à nos jours: la peinture, la gravure, le dessin. Paris: Librairie de France, 1922, ill. p. 236, as L'Allée à Chantilly.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 173.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 216, listed.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 95, as Durchblick durch einen Park, 1896.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 626, ill. vol. II, as L'Allée à Chantilly.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 54, as L'Allée à Chantilly, 1888.
"Recent Acquisitions of Nineteenth-Century Paintings at the National Gallery, London." The Burlington Magazine 135, no. 1080 (March 1993), p. 248, fig. VIII, as Avenue at Chantilly.
Baker, Christopher, and Tom Henry. The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue. London: National Gallery Publications, 1995, p. 108, ill., as Avenue at Chantilly.
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. 615, ill. vol. 2, as L'Allée à Chantilly, II.
Bach, Friedrich Teja. "The Stake in the Pictorial Flesh: Disruptions in Cézanne's Oeuvre." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 70, fig. 12, as L'Allée à Chantilly, II.
Reissner, Elisabeth. "Ways of Making: Practice and Innovation in Cézanne's Paintings in the National Gallery." National Gallery Technical Bulletin vol. 29 (2008), p. 5, pl. 4.
Kienle, Anabelle. "Cézanne and Beckmann: 'A Powerful New Pictorial Architecture.'" In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009, p. 311, fig. 11.2, as Tree-Lined Path, Avenue at Chantilly.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed., Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 91, ill., as L'Allée à Chantilly, with photo of motif by Machotka (p. 90).
Machotka, Pavel. "Des paysages du nord aux premiers pas du cubisme." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 190, fig. 104, as L'Allée à Chantilly.
Schaefer, Barbara, ed. "Sonderbundausstellung 1912 - Rekonstruktion." 1912, Mission Moderne: die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes. Cologne: Wienend, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, no. 138, p. 555.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 137, fig. 47c, with color photo of motif, p. 137, fig. 47a, as L'Allée à Chantilly, II.
Callen, Anthea. The Work of Art: Plein-air Painting and Artistic Identiy in the Nineteenth-century France. London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2015, pp. 189-191, fig. 147, as Avenue at Chantilly.
Elderfield John, et al. Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Exhibition catalogue, p. 118, fig. 75, as Alley in Chantilly.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. "Cézanne nostalgique: Nostalgia, Memory, Illusion." Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Autumn 2023, fig. 23.
Record last updated February 5, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Allée à Chantilly, 1888 (FWN 245)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=597 (accessed on September 20, 2024).
