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Catalogue entry

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)
Musée d'Orsay, Paris (Gift of Heinz Berggruen) (RF 1997 54)

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Dr. Julius Elias, Berlin (May 1926)
Jakob Goldschmidt, Berlin;
J.G[oldschmidt] Collection, Hans W. Lange, Berlin, Sept. 25, 1941, no. 33, pl. 21
Jakob Goldschmidt, New York;
Alfred Goldschmidt, New York;
Goldschmidt Collection, Parke-Bernet, New York, Oct. 28, 1970, no. 17, ill.
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney R. Barlow, Beverly Hills;
Barlow Collection, Christie's, New York, May 16, 1977, no. 7, ill.; bought in
Barlow Collection, Sotheby's, London, Apr. 2, 1979, no. 8, ill.
Heinz Berggruen, Paris and Berlin;
Musée d'Orsay, Paris (1997)
Exhibition History
1974 Tokyo and traveling
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.
1988 Geneva
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Collection Berggruen, June 16–October 30, 1988, no. 7, ill.
1991a London
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'.
2000–01 Seoul
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.
2005 Lyon
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.
2009 Aix-en-Provence
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Picasso, Cézanne, May 25–September 27, 2009, no. 43, ill., as Le Joueur de cartes.
2009–10 The Hague
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.
2010–11 London and traveling
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.
2013 Dresden
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.
2014–15 Fort Worth
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.
2015–16 Rome
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 1974
Sutton, Denys. "The Paradoxes of Cézanne." Apollo (London) 100, no. 150 (August 1974), fig. 3 p. 99.
Adriani 1978a
Adriani, Götz. Paul Cézanne. Zeichnungen. Cologne: DuMont, 1978. Exhibition catalogue, p. 325, ill. Der Kartenspieler.
Du 1989
"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), p. 45, ill.
Kendall 1991
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 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. 709, ill. vol. 2, as Le Joueur de cartes.
Patin 1998
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 2001
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 2008
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, Morton, Rey 2017
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 178, fig. 54.
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. 220 p. 231.
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, 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 April 19, 2024).