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© The Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania, USA/ The Bridgeman Art Library
FWN 681
Les Joueurs de cartes
1890–92
Alternate titles: Card Players; Die Kartenspieler; Die Spieler; Kaartspelers; Kartenspieler; Le joueurs; Les joueurs de cartes; Scène de cabaret; The Card Players
Rewald (706): 1890–92; Venturi revised: 1890–92; Venturi (560): 1890–92; Rivière: 1892; Vollard: 1892; Gowing: c.1892 (Burlington); Reff: 1890–91 (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
53 1/4 x 71 5/8 in. (135.3 x 181.9 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 4169, Joueurs de cartes, 135 x 183 cm
Vollard W stockbook: no. 4808, Scène de cabaret; huile, 136 x 184 (500,000)
Vollard archives: photo no. 67, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1892
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (BF564)

Keywords

Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (June 18, 1913)
Barnes Foundation, Merion and Philadelphia (December 22, 1925)
Exhibition History
1923d Paris
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Rétrospective des Rétrospectives faites au Salon d'Automne de 1904 à 1922, November 1–December 16, 1923, no. 2355, as Les Joueurs de cartes, lent by Vollard; tentative identification.
1993–95 Washington, D.C. and traveling
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation, May 2–August 15, 1993, no number, pp. 122–27, ill. p. 123. Traveled to: Musèe d'Orsay, Paris, November 6, 1993–January 2, 1994; National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, January 21–April 3, 1994; Kimbell Art Museum, Forth Worth, Texas, April 24–August 16, 1994; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, September 17–December 31, 1994; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, January 29–April 1995; Haus der Kunst, Munich, June 23–October 22, 1995.
2010–11 London and traveling
Courtauld Gallery, London, Cézanne's Card Players, October 21, 2010–January 16, 2011, no. 2, ill., as The Card Players, catalogued, but not shown. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 9–May 8, 2011.
Published References
Duret 1907
Duret, Théodore. "Paul Cézanne." Kunst und Künstler 5, no. 3 (1907), ill. p. 95, as Kartenspieler.
Meier-Graefe 1907
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Paul Cézanne." In Impressionisten: Guys, Manet, van Gogh, Pissarro, Cézanne. Munich and Leipzig: R. Piper & Co., 1907, ill. p. 203, as Le joueurs, c. 1885.
Meier-Graefe 1910
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1910, ill. p. 57.
Meier-Graefe 1913
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1913, ill. p. 57.
New York Times 1913
"A Private Collection in Germany That Contains Fourteen Examples of the Art of Paul Cezanne, a Great Modern, Who Already Is Placed with the Old Masters, in Darmstadt." New York Times, July 6, 1913, p. 15, ill., as Card Players.
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 18, as Les Joueurs de cartes.
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. 195.
Deri 1919
Deri, Max. Die Malerei im XIX. Jahrhundert: entwicklungsgeschichtliche Darstellung auf psychologischer Grundlage. Berlin: Paul Cassirer, 1919, pp. 209–12, pl. 50.
Duret 1919
Duret, Théodore. Histoire des peintres impressionnistes: Pissarro, Claude Monet, Sisley, Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Cézanne, Guillaumin. Paris: H. Floury, 1919, pl. 13.
Vollard 1919b
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne: Huit phototypies d'après Cézanne; Lettres de M.M. Jacques Flach, de L'Institut et André Suarès. Paris: Editions Crès, 1919, frontispiece.
Vauvrecy and Cezanne 1920
Vauvrecy; Paul Cézanne. "Vie de Cézanne'';''Lettres de Cézanne." L'Esprit nouveau: revue internationale d'esthétique, no. 2 (1920), ill. p. 141.
Vollard 1921
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Munich: Kurt Wolfe Verlag, 1921, ill. opp. p. 60, as Die Kartenspieler, dated 1892.
Zeisho 1921
Zeisho, Atzouji. Paul Cézanne. Tokyo: Rakuyodo, Taisho, 1921, fig. 27.
Glaser 1922
Glaser, Curt. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1922, pl. 16, as Die Spieler, 1892.
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. 237.
Wedderkop 1922b
Wedderkop, Harro von. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1922, ill.
Meier-Graefe 1923
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper, 1923, ill. p. 59.
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 219, listed, ill. p. 32, as Les Joueurs de cartes, dated 1892, Vollard.
Ozenfant and Jeanneret 1924
Ozenfant, Amedée, and Charles Edouard Jeanneret. La Peinture moderne. Paris: Les Éditions Crès, 1924, p. 31.
Barnes 1925b
Barnes, Albert C. The Art in Painting. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1925, frontispiece.
A.W. 1926
A.W. "La rétrospective Cézanne s'ouvre aujourd'hui." Comoedia (Paris), June 1, 1926, p. 1, ill., as Les Joueurs de cartes.
Anonymous 1926a
Anonymous. "Paul Cézanne." Opgang: Geillustreerd weekblad voor godsdienst, wetenschap, kunst, [..] (Amsterdam) 6, no. 260 (February 6, 1926), p. 131, ill., as Kaartspelers, 1892, erroneously as coll. A Pellerin, Paris.
De Mazia 1927
De Mazia, Violette. "L'art ancien à la Fondation Barnes." Les Arts à Paris, no. 14 (October 1927), ill.
Pfister 1927
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 110, as Die Kartenspieler, 1892.
D'Ors 1930
Ors, Eugenio d.' Paul Cézanne. Paris: Editions des Chroniques du Jour, 1930, pl. 40.
Waldmann 1930b
Waldmann, Emil. Paul Cézanne: Acht farbige Gemälde. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1930, frontispiece 2.
Huyghe 1933
Huyghe, René. "Les origines de la peinture contemporaine: Genèse et position de l'art moderne." L'Amour de l'art 14, no. 1 (January 1933), p. 14, fig. 1 p. 2, as Les joueurs de cartes.
Olmenhove 1935
Olmenhove, van den. "Kunst: Paul Cézanne." Verf en kunst: maandblad van P. A. Regnault's verf-, inkt- en blikfabrieken (Surabaya) 4, no.10, no.11, no.12 (1935), ill. p. 9 (no.11), as Kaartspelers.
Iavorskaia 1935b
Iavorskaia, Nina. Paul Cézanne. Milan: Hoepli, 1935, pl. XXVI.
Di San Lazzaro 1936
Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1936, fig. 55.
Faure 1936
Faure, Élie. Cézanne. Paris: Editions Braun, 1936, pl. 42.
Raynal 1936
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. XXVIII p. 55.
Sterling 1936
Sterling, Charles. "Cézanne et les maîtres d'autrefois." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 19, nos. 5-6 (May–June 1936), pp. 12 et 13, fig. 12, as Les Joueurs de cartes.
D'Ors 1936a
Ors, Eugenio d.' Paul Cézanne. New York: E. Weyhe, 1936, pl. 55.
Rewald 1936a
Rewald, John. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Art sacré: revue mensuelle, special number, Cézanne (May 1936), p. 8, fig. 3 p. 4, as Les joueurs de cartes.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 560, ill. vol. II, as Les joueurs de cartes.
Novotny 1937
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 59.
Rewald 1937a
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 54, as Les joueurs de cartes.
Zervos 1938
Zervos, Christian. Histoire de l'art contemporain. Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'art, 1938, p. 33, ill.
Barnes and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 141, p. 276, ill. (analysis pp. 365–68).
Niehaus 1939
Niehaus, Kasper. "Paul Cézanne, redder der schilderkunst." De Telegraaf (Amsterdam), January 15, 1939, ill. p. 9, as Kaartspelers.
Cogniat 1939a
Cogniat, Raymond. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1939, pl. 77.
Wilenski 1940
Wilenski, R.H. Modern French Painters. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1940, fig. 32A.
Jewell 1944b
Jewell, Edward Alden. French Impressionists and Their Contemporaries. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944, p. 116, ill.
Schildt 1946
Schildt, Göran. Cézanne. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1946, fig. 41.
Novotny 1947
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 57, as Les joueurs de cartes, 1890-92.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 124, listed p. 166.
Beucken 1955
Beucken, Jean de. Un portrait de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, [1955], p. 227.
Badt 1956
Badt, Kurt. Die Kunst Cézannes. Munich: Prestel, 1956, pp. 113–14, pl. 8.
De Mazia 1972
"Learning to See." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 3, no. 1 (Spring), pl. 14.
Sweeney 1972
Sweeney, James Johnson. "The Albert C. Barnes Collection." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 3, no. 2 (Autumn 1972), p. 36, pl. 33.
De Mazia 1973b
De Mazia, Violette. "Creative Distortion III: In Portraiture." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 4, no. 2 (Autumn 1973), pl. 41.
De Mazia 1974a
De Mazia, Violette. "Creative Distortion IV: Portraiture II." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 5, no. 1 (Spring 1974), pl. 64.
De Mazia 1975b
De Mazia, Violette. "Three Aspects of Art." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 6, no. 2 (Autumn1975), pl. 20.
De Mazia 1976a
De Mazia, Violette. "E Pluribus Unum." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 7, no. 1 (Spring 1976), pl. 59.
De Mazia 1977a
De Mazia, Violette. "E Pluribus Unum – Cont'd: Part III." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 8, no. 1 (Spring 1977), pl. 107.
De Mazia 1977b
De Mazia, Violette. "E Pluribus Unum, Cont'd: Part IV." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 8, no. 2 (Autumn 1977), pl. 89.
Reff 1977c
Reff, Theodore. "Painting and Theory in the Final Decade." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 17, ill.
De Mazia 1978
De Mazia, Violette. "Transferred Values: Part I – Introduction." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 9, no. 2 (Autumn 1978), pp. 5–6, 11, pl. 83.
Reff 1980
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's 'Cardplayers' and Their Sources." Arts Magazine 55, no. 5 (Nov. 1980), fig. 1.
Rubin 1983
Rubin, William. "From Narrative to 'Iconic' in Picasso: The Buried Allegory in Bread and Fruitdish on a Table and the Role of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon." The Art Bulletin 65, no. 4 (December 1983), pp. 620, 638, fig. 7.
Ely 1984
Ely, Bruno. "Cézanne, L'Ecole de dessin et le Musée d'Aix." In Cézanne au Musée d'Aix. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1984. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 192.
De Mazia 1984–86
De Mazia, Violette. "Tradition: An Inquiry – A Few Thoughts." Vistas 3, no. 1 (1984–86), pl. 91.
Rewald 1989
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 219, fig. 108.
Shoemaker and Reff 1989
Shoemaker, Innis, and Theodore Reff. Paul Cézanne: Two Sketchbooks. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 118, 148, ill.
De Mazia 1990
De Mazia, Violette. "The form of Seurat's 'The Models.'" Vistas 5, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 1990), pl. 47.
Gasquet 1991
Gasquet, Joachim. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne. Translated by C. Pemberton. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991, p. 49, ill.
Cachin and Rishel 1995
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 56, ill.
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. 706, ill. vol. 2 and p. 32, ill. col. vol. 1, as Les Joueurs de cartes.
Rubin 1998
Rubin, William. "Vom Erzählerischen zum 'Ikonischen' in Picassos frühem Werk: Die verborgene Allegorie in 'Brot und Obstschale mit Früchten auf einem Tisch]." In Cézanne, Picasso, Braque: Der Beginn des kubistischen Stillebens. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 1998. Exhibition catalogue, p. 85, fig. 19.
Schmidt 1998
Schmidt, Katharina. "Cézannes letztes Stilleben." In Cézanne, Picasso, Braque: Der Beginn des kubistischen Stillebens. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 1998. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 19.
Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, pp. 262-63, fig. 164.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer 2003
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 212, fig. 5.26, as Les Joueurs de cartes.
Arrouye 2004
Arrouye, Jean. "A Balance of Dissimilar Elements." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanne, ed. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 128, ill. in color.
Pissarro 2005
Pissarro, Joachim. Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–85. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 52, fig. 48.
Feilchenfeldt 2005e
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Gemälde: Formate und Themen, Echtheitsfragen." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 236, ill.
Lebensztejn 2006
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. Études cézanniennes. Paris: Flammarion, 2006, p. 31, fig. 8, as Les Joueurs de cartes.
Coutagne 2006b
Coutagne, Denis. "The Jas de Bouffan." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 89, fig. 15, as Les Joueurs de cartes.
Green 2009
Green, Christopher. "Cézanne and Léger: Realizing Sensations." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 197, fig. 7.10, as The Card Players.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2009
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection - New Edition. Stein, Susan Alyson and Asher Ethan Miller. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009, fig. 116, ill. p. 157.
Bailey 2012
Bailey, Colin B. "'In the same order, but … stronger than ever': the new Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia." The Burlington Magazine 54, no. 1315 (October 2012), p. 710 mentioned, as Card Players.
Dolkart and Lucy 2012
Dolkart, Judith, Martha Lucy. The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2012, p. 77, ill. pp. 70–71, comments by Martha Lucy.
Ireson 2012
Ireson, Nancy. "Personalising the Past: Cézanne and the Cardplayers." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 76, fig. 38, p. 74 (detail), as The Card Players.
Colrat 2013
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 313, pl. 144.
Nagaï 2016
Nagaï, Takanori. "Cézanne and Jas de Bouffan." In Le "basho" dans l'art moderne français. Tokyo: Sangensha, 2016, p. 119, ill.
Serres et al 2019
Serres, Karen (ed.). The Courtauld Collection, A Vision of Impressionism. Paris and London: Fondation Louis Vuitton and Paul Holberton Publishing, 2019. Exhibition catalogue (2019 Paris), p. 213, fig. 78.
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. 217 p. 229.
Cezanne 2021
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 115.
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. 50, pp. 233–48 (fig. 16, detail), as The Card Players (catalogue notes by A. Dombrowski and N. Ireson).
Clark 2022
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pls. 60, 72 (detail).

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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Les Joueurs de cartes, 1890–92 (FWN 681)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=684 (accessed on April 19, 2024).