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Catalogue entry

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 X stockbook: no. 5142
Vollard archives: photo no. 260, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Chantilly 1887
National Gallery, London (acquired from the Chester Beatty family under the acceptance-in-lieu procedure) (NG 6525)

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Baron Denys Cochin, Paris (Apr. 4, 1900)
Georges Menier, Paris
Paul Rosenberg, Paris
Mrs. A. Chester Beatty, London;
National Gallery, London (1990)
Exhibition History
1912 Cologne
Städtische Ausstellungshalle, Cologne, Internationale Kunstausstellung des Sonderbundes Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, May 25–September 30, 1912, no. 138, as Durchblick durch einen Parkweg.
1939a Paris
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.
1939b London
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.
2000 Vienna and traveling
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).
2012 Cologne
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.
2014a Madrid
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, possible loan, hors catalogue.
2021–22 Budapest
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary, Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction, October 28, 2021–February 13, 2022, no. 47, ill.
Published References
Scheffler 1913
Scheffler, Karl. "Die Jüngsten." Kunst und Künstler 11, no. 8 (1913), ill. p. 395.
Meier-Graefe 1918a
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 1920
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 and Vauxcelles 1922
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 1922
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 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 216, listed.
Pfister 1927
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 95, as Durchblick durch einen Park, 1896.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 626, ill. vol. II, as L'Allée à Chantilly.
Novotny 1937
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 61.
Novotny 1947
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 54, as L'Allée à Chantilly, 1888.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 94, listed p. 160.
Beucken 1955
Beucken, Jean de. Un portrait de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, [1955], p. 217.
Burlington 1993
"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 and Henry 1995
Baker, Christopher, and Tom Henry. The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue. London: National Gallery Publications, 1995, p. 108, ill., as Avenue at Chantilly.
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. 615, ill. vol. 2, as L'Allée à Chantilly, II.
Bach 2000
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 2008
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 2009
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 2011
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 2011a
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 2012
Schaefer, Barbara, ed. "Sonderbundausstellung 1912 - Rekonstruktion." 1912, Mission Moderne: die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes. Cologne: Wienend, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, no. 138, p. 555.
Machotka 2014
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 2015
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 et al 2020
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 2023
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. "Cézanne nostalgique: Nostalgia, Memory, Illusion." Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Autumn 2023, fig. 23.
L'Allée à Chantilly, 1888 (FWN 245). Site identified by Pavel Machotka,
Site identified by Pavel Machotka,
Photo: Pavel Machotka, 1976; © Courtesy Pavel Machotka Archive

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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 April 19, 2024).