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)
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© The Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania, USA/ The Bridgeman Art Library
FWN 243
L'Allée des marronniers au Jas de Bouffan
c.1886–87
Alternate titles: Aisle of Trees (Jas de Bouffan); L'allée (Jas de Bouffan); Les Marronniers; Paysage; The Chestnut Allée at the Jas de Bouffan; The Allée of Chestnut Trees at the Jas de Bouffan
Rewald (617): c.1888; Venturi revised: 1890–94; Venturi (649): 1888–90; Rivière: 1889
Oil on canvas
31 7/8 x 25 3/8 in. (81 x 64.5 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3761, huile; paysage. à dr[oite] et à gauche des arbres qui semblent se rejoindre dans le haut, 81 x 65 cm (150 frs)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition Paul Cézanne (au profit de la caisse du monument Cézanne), March 3–24, 1924.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition rétrospective Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) au profit de la caisse du Monument Cézanne, June 1–30, 1926, no. 2, as Paysage, shown in an installation photo in Dauberville, 2020, p. 117.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The museum's first loan exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, November 8–December 7, 1929, no. 21, ill., as Aisle of Trees (Jas de Bouffan), lent by Vollard.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, May 18–29, 1931.
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, From Paris to Provence, French Painting at the Barnes, June 29–August 31, 2025.
Published References
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 217, listed.
Denis, Maurice. "Le dessin de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 5, no. 2 (February 1924), ill. p. 39, as Paysage, (Coll. Vollard).
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 649, ill. vol. II, as L'Allée des marronniers au Jas de Bouffan .
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 49, fig. 37.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 112, p. 234, ill.
Loran, Erle. Cézanne's Composition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943, p. 50, ill., pl. 5 (with photograph of the motif).
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 133.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 305, fig. 1, as The Chestnut Allée at the Jas de Bouffan, 1888.
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. 617, ill. vol. 2, as L'Allée des marronniers au Jas de Bouffan .
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 231; vol. 2, p. 157, as L'Allée des marronniers au Jas de Bouffan .
Novotny, Fritz. Paul Cézanne: Gesammelte Schriften zu seinem Werk und Materialien aus dem Nachlaß. Introduction by Gabriel Ramin Schor (editor), Agnes Blaha (assistance). Vienna: Klever, 2011, fig. 37.
Cezanne, Jas de Bouffan: art et histoire. Lyon; Aix-en-Provence: Fage éditions; Société Paul Cezanne, 2019, fig. 138 p. 151.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 106, ill., as L'allée (Jas de Bouffan), installation photographs of 1926 exhibition , p. 117, and 1931 exhibition, p. 123.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, no. 31, pp. 166–75, as The Allée of Chestnut Trees at the Jas de Bouffan (catalogue notes by J. Elderfield).
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. "Cézanne nostalgique: Nostalgia, Memory, Illusion." Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, 22, no. 2 (Autumn 2023), fig. 21.
Kang, Cindy. "Le Jas dans la collection Barnes." In Cezanne au Jas de Bouffan. Paris: GrandPalaisRmn, 2025. Exhibition catalogue, p. 65, fig. 16.
Record last updated July 30, 2025. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Allée des marronniers au Jas de Bouffan, c.1886–87 (FWN 243)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=599 (accessed on August 18, 2025).
