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)
FWN 682
Le Joueur de cartes
1890–92
Alternate titles: Der Kartenspieler. Studie; Etude pour le Joueur de cartes; I giocatori di carte; Le Joueur de cartes, Etude; Le joueur de cartes. Etude peinte; Studie für die 'Kartenspieler'; Study for thr 'Cardplayers'; The Card Player
Rewald (709): 1890–92; Venturi revised: 1890–92
Oil on canvas
19 11/16 x 18 1/8 in. (50 x 46 cm)
Vollard W stockbook: no. 688, Joueur de cartes; huile, 50 x 46 (10,000)
Provenance
Exhibition History
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 46. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Collection Berggruen, June 16–October 30, 1988, no. 7, ill.
National Gallery, London, Van Gogh to Picasso: The Berggruen Collection at the National Gallery, January–April 21, 1991, no. 20, ill., as Study for thr 'Cardplayers'.
The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea, L'impressionnisme et l'art moderne (chefs-d’œuvre des collections du Musée d'Orsay), October 26, 2000–February 27, 2001, pp. 76-77, ill., as Le Joueur de cartes, Etude, c. 1890-1892.
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France, Impressionnisme et naissance du cinématographe, April 15–July 18, 2005, no. 7, ill., as Etude pour le Joueur de cartes.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Picasso, Cézanne, May 25–September 27, 2009, no. 43, ill., as Le Joueur de cartes.
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Cézanne, Picasso, Mondriaan: in nieuw perspectief, October 17, 2009–January 24, 2010, no. 10, ill., as Le Joueur de cartes.
Courtauld Gallery, London, Cézanne's Card Players, October 21, 2010–January 16, 2011, no. 5, ill., as The Card Player. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 9–May 8, 2011.
Albertinum, Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden, Germany, Constable, Delacroix, Friedrich, Goya: Die Erschütterung der Sinne / A Shock to the Senses, March 16–July 14, 2013, pp. 97 and 185, as Der Kartenspieler. Studie, probably 1891.
Kimbell Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from the Musée d'Orsay, October 19, 2014–January 25, 2015, no. 50, ill., pp. 186–87, as The Card Player.
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Impressionisti dal Musée d'Orsay: 'Tête à tête', October 15, 2015–February 7, 2016, no. 63, ill., as I giocatori di carte.
Published References
Sutton, Denys. "The Paradoxes of Cézanne." Apollo (London) 100, no. 150 (August 1974), fig. 3 p. 99.
Adriani, Götz. Paul Cézanne. Zeichnungen. Cologne: DuMont, 1978. Exhibition catalogue, p. 325, ill. Der Kartenspieler.
"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), p. 45, ill.
Kendall, Richard. Van Gogh to Picasso: The Berggruen Collection at the National Gallery. London: The National Gallery, 1991, no. 20, ill. (also p. 20).
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. 709, ill. vol. 2, as Le Joueur de cartes.
Patin, Sylvie. "Une étude peinte de Cézanne Le joueur de cartes, 1890-1892, donnée au musée d'Orsay." Revue du Louvre - la revue des musées de France, no. 1 (February 1998), p. 22-23, ill., as Le joueur de cartes. Etude peinte.
Papies, Hans Jürgen. "Notizen zum Thema 'Cézanne' und die Berliner Museen." In Cézanne in Berlin. Berlin: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 2001. Exhibition catalogue, p. 24, ill. p. 23, as Studie für die 'Kartenspieler'.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 254; vol. 2, p. 173, as Le Joueur de cartes.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 178, fig. 54.
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. 220 p. 231.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 239, fig. 6, as The Card Player.
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Record last updated May 16, 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 682)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=687 (accessed on January 23, 2025).
