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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)
Catalogue entry
FWN 679
Le Joueur de cartes
1890–92
Alternate titles: Cardplayer; Cardplayer, sketch; Head of a Man (Study for the Card Players); Joueur de cartes; Kartenspieler; Le Joueur de carte; Le joueur de cartes; Study for the Card Players; The Card Player
Rewald (708): 1890–92; Venturi revised: 1890–92; Venturi (568): 1890–92
Oil on canvas
12 5/8 x 13 13/16 in. (32 x 35 cm)
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Paul Guillaume, Paris
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York
Worcester Art Museum, MA (1931)
Exhibition History
1898 Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Exposition Cézanne, May 9–June 10, 1898, no. 14, as Joueur de cartes.1930a Paris
Galerie Pigalle, Paris, Exposition Cèzanne, 1839–1906, January 4–February 7, 1930, no. 16, ill., as Le Joueur de carte, lent by P. Guillaume.1930c New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Summer Exhibition, June–September 1930, no. 16, as Cardplayer, sketch, lent by Marie Harriman.1930e New York
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Opening Exhibition, October 4–31, 1930, no. 2, as Cardplayer.1931 Detroit
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Modern French Painting, May 22–June 30, 1931, no. 12, as Head of a Man (Study for the Card Players).1934 Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November 10–December 10, 1934, no. 33, (dated 1890), as Study for the Card Players, lent by Worcester Art Museum.1954 Detroit
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, The Two Sides of the Medal: French painting from Gèrôme to Gauguin, September 28–October 31, 1954, extended until November 11, no. 99, as The Card Player, c. 1890-1892.1965 St. Petersburg, Fla.
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, Inaugural Exhibition, February 7–March 7, 1965, no. 76, ill.1986 Tokyo and traveling
Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, September 18–October 7, 1986, no. 32, ill. Traveled to: Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan, October 10–November 9, 1986; Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, November 15–December 4, 1986.2010–11 London and traveling
Courtauld Gallery, London, Cézanne's Card Players, October 21, 2010–January 16, 2011, no. 4, ill., as Study for the Card Players. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 9–May 8, 2011.Published References
Neugass 1930
Neugass, Fritz. "Paul Cézanne." Der Cicerone 22 , no. 4 (1930), p. 108, ill. p. 105, as Kartenspieler.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 568, ill vol. II, as Le joueur de cartes.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 ...paysan au Jas de Bouffan ...Badt 1956
Badt, Kurt. Die Kunst Cézannes. Munich: Prestel, 1956, pp. 119–20.Pickvance and Takumi 1986
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 69, pl. 32.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. 708, ill. vol. 2, as Le Joueur de cartes.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. 218 p. 230.Related
Record last updated January 18, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Joueur de cartes, 1890–92 (FWN 679)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=686 (accessed on May 2, 2025).
