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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)
Vollard C stockbook: no. 7045, allée d'arbres. Jas de Bouffan, 81 x 65 cm
Vollard W stockbook: no. 1348, paysage; huile, 81 x 65 (50,000)
Vollard archives: photo no. 144, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Allée du Jas de Bouffan 1880–85
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (BF939)

Keywords

Provenance
(Ambroise Vollard, Paris?)
Henry Bernstein, Paris
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Georges Bernheim, Paris;
Bernheim Collection, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, June 7, 1935, no. 30, ill.
Galerie E. Bignou, Paris
Barnes Foundation, Merion and Philadelphia (Apr. 17, 1936)
Exhibition History
1910a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910.
1924a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition Paul Cézanne (au profit de la caisse du monument Cézanne), March 3–24, 1924.
1926b Paris
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.
1929 New York
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.
1931a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, May 18–29, 1931.
Published References
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 217, listed.
Denis 1924
Denis, Maurice. "Le dessin de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 5, no. 2 (February 1924), ill. p. 39, as Paysage, (Coll. Vollard).
Loran 1930
Johnson, Erle Loran. "Cézanne's Country." The Arts 16, no. 8 (April 1930), p. 525.
Mack 1935
Mack, Gerstle. Paul Cézanne. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935, fig. 9.
Raynal 1936
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. LI p. 80.
Venturi 1936b
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 1938
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 49, fig. 37.
Barnes and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 112, p. 234, ill.
Cogniat 1939a
Cogniat, Raymond. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1939, pl. 109.
Loran 1943
Loran, Erle. Cézanne's Composition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943, p. 50, ill., pl. 5 (with photograph of the motif).
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 93, listed p. 160.
Barskaya 1983a
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 133.
Cachin and Rishel 1995
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 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. 617, ill. vol. 2, as L'Allée des marronniers au Jas de Bouffan .
Machotka 2008
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 2011
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.
Société Paul Cezanne 2019
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. 138 p. 151.
Dauberville 2020
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, Ireson and Patry 2021
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 2023
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. "Cézanne nostalgique: Nostalgia, Memory, Illusion." Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Autumn 2023, fig. 21.
L'Allée des marronniers au Jas de Bouffan, c.1886–87 (FWN 243). The allée of chestnut trees at the Jas de Bouffan. John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washignton, D.C.
The allée of chestnut trees 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
Record last updated December 10, 2021. 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 April 26, 2024).