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 686
Les Joueurs de cartes
1891–96
Alternate titles: Card Players; Die Kartenspieler; Kartenspieler; The Card Players; The Cardplayers
Rewald (713): 1893–96; Venturi revised: 1890–92; Venturi (557): 1890–92; Rivière: 1891; Cooper: 1892; Gowing: c.1893 (Edinburgh)
Oil on canvas
23 5/8 x 28 11/16 in. (60 x 73 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3517, huile; autour d'une table sur laquelle se trouve un tapis rouge deux hommes jouent aux cartes, 60 x 73 cm (175 frs)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 3368, Deux joueurs de cartes, 60 x 73 cm (200 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 559, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1890
Provenance
Exhibition History
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Sonderausstellung Paul Cézanne, April 22–June 15, 1904, no number, as Kartenspieler.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XII. Jahrgang, III. Ausstellung, November 17–December 12, 1909, no. 31, as Die Kartenspieler, lent by Private collection.
Galerie Pigalle, Paris, Exposition Cèzanne, 1839–1906, January 4–February 7, 1930, no. 8, as Les Joueurs de cartes, 1891, lent by Courtauld.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, French Art, January 4–March 12, 1932, no. 392, ill. p. 70 in An Illustrated Souvenir ..., as Les Joueurs de cartes, lent by Samuel Courtauld, London; Commemorative Catalogue: no. 282.
Palais National des Arts, Paris, Chefs-d'oeuvres de l'art français [World's Fair], June–October 1937, no. 256, pl. 89, as Les Joueurs de cartes, lent by Courtauld.
City Art Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom, French Art, 1947.
Tate Gallery, London, Samuel Courtauld: Memorial Exhibition, May–June 1948, no. 13, as The Card Players, c. 1892.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 52, as Les Joueurs de cartes, c. 1893, lent by the Home House Trustees. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Impressionnistes de la Collection Courtauld de Londres, October 1955, no. 11, pl. 48.
Arts Council of Great Britain, London, Samuel Courtauld's Collection of French 19th Century Paintings and Drawings, July–August 1976, no. 10.
Takashimaya, Tokyo, The Impressionists and the Post-Impressionists from the Courtauld Collection, January 12–February 28, 1984, no. 11. Traveled to: Takashimaya, Kyoto, Japan, March 8–April 3, 1984; Takashimaya, Osaka, Japan, April 12–May 8, 1984.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Impressionist & Post-Impressionist Masterpieces: The Courtauld Collection, January 14–March 8, 1987, no. 26, ill. Traveled to: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 4–June 21, 1987; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, July 11–September 27, 1987; Art Institute, Chicago, October 17, 1987–January 3, 1988; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, January 30–April 3, 1988.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 65, ill.
Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, Impressionism for England: Samuel Courtauld as Patron and Collector, June 17–September 25, 1994, no. 10, ill.
The Courtauld Gallery, London, Art Made Modern: Roger Fry's Vision of Art, October 15, 1999–January 23, 2000, no. 32, as The Card Players, c. 1892-95.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Impressionism and the North: Late 19th Century French Avant-Garde Art and the Art in the Nordic Countries 1870–1920, September 25, 2002–January 19, 2003, no. 28, ill., p. 240, as The Cardplayers. Traveled to: Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark, February 21–May 25, 2003.
National Gallery, London, Cézanne in Britain, October 4, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 31, ill., as The Card Players, c. 1892–95.
The Courtauld Gallery, London, The Courtauld Cézannes, June 26–October 5, 2008, no. 6, ill., pp. 90–93 (dated c. 1892–95), as Les Joueurs de cartes.
Courtauld Gallery, London, Cézanne's Card Players, October 21, 2010–January 16, 2011, no. 13, ill., as The Card Players, c. 1892–96. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 9–May 8, 2011.
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany, Manet, Cézanne, Van Gogh: aus aller Welt zu Gast, September 26, 2014–January 18, 2015, ill., listed p. 84, ill. p. 71, as Les Joueurs de cartes, c. 1892-95.
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, La Collection Courtauld: le parti de l'impressionnsime, February 20–June 17, 2019. (Exhibition catalogue: Serres et al 2019), no. 41, ill., as Les Joueurs de cartes, c. 1892-1896.
KODE Art Museums, Bergen, Norway, Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Courtauld at KODE Art Museums, July 16–October 10, 2021, no. 8, ill. c. 1892–96.
Published References
Rosenhagen, Hans. "Von Ausstellungen und Sammlungen." Die Kunst für Alle 19, no. 17 (June 1, 1904), pp. 402-03.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 194.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 236.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 218, listed.
Jamot, Paul. "L'art français en Norvège." La Renaissance (Paris; New York), vol. 12, no. 2 (February 1929), pp. 95-96, ill. p. 81, as Les Joueurs de cartes, J.-B. Stang collection.
Charensol, Georges. "Cézanne à la galerie Pigalle." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 124 (February 15, 1930), p. 181, ill.
French impressionists, old masters : 35 paintings selected from exhibitions at Dr. Alfred Gold's Gallery. Berlin: Galerie Gold, 1930, p. [25], ill., as The Card Players, 1892.
"Chronique des expositions [Galerie Pigalle]." L'Amour de l'art 11, no. 3 (March 1930), ill. p. 156, as Les Joueurs de cartes.
Sardant, Gilles. "Exposition rétrospective du peintre Cézanne au Théâtre Pigalle." Le monde illustré (Paris) (January 18, 1930), ill. p. 37, as Les Joueurs de cartes.
Wilenski, R.H. "La collection Courtauld." Formes: revue internationale des arts plastiques, no. 10 (December 1930), p. 17, as Les Joueurs de cartes.
Jamot, Paul, and Percy Moore Turner. Collection de tableaux français, faite à Londres, 20 Portman Square, par Samuel et Elizabeth Courtauld. London: [privately published], 1934, no. 23.
Catalogue of the Pictures and Other Works of Art at Home House, 20 Portman Square, London. London: Home House Trustees, 1935, no. I, pl. III, as The Card Players.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 557, ill. vol. II, as Les Joueurs de cartes.
Laver, James. French Painting and the Nineteenth Century. London: B.T. Batsford, 1937, pl. 112.
Huisman, Georges (introduction). "La rétrospective d'art français." L'Amour de l'art 18, no. 5 (May 1937), fig. 89, p. 38, as Les Joueurs de cartes, 1892.
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.
Huyghe, René. La Peinture française du XVIIIe et du XIXe siècles. Paris: A. Chaplot, 1938, pl. XLV, detail.
Larguier, Léo. Cézanne ou la lutte avec l'ange de la peinture. Paris: René Julliard, 1947, ill. on cover.
Rosenberg, Jakob. On Quality in Art. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967, pp. 108, 110, pl. 85.
Stokes, Adrian. "Cézanne." In The Critical Writings of Adrian Stokes, vol. 2, 1937–58. London: Thames & Hudson, 1978, fig. 101, commentary pp. 270–71.
Thomas, Denis. The Age of the Impressionists. Middlesex, U.K.: Holiday House, 1987, p. 159, ill.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 338, fig. 3.
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. 713, ill. vol. 2, as Les Joueurs de cartes.
Arrouye, Jean. "A Balance of Dissimilar Elements." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanne, ed. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 130, ill. in color.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Motive: Versuch einer neuen Ordnung." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 208, ill.
Storr, Robert. "La Famille Cézanne." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 52, fig. 2.10, as Card Players, dated c. 1892–95.
Verdi, Richard. "Cézanne's 'Card players': London and New York." The Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1293 (December 2010), fig. 42, as The Card Players, c. 1893-96.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Paul Cézanne, 22. April bis 15. Juni 1904." Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1901-1905. vol. 2, "Man steht da und staunt". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2011, p. 505, ill.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 323, pl. 150.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Kollektion Paul Cézanne: 17. November bis 12. Dezember 1909." Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1908-1910. vol. 4, "Ganz eigenartige neue Werte". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2013, p. 303, ill.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 179, fig. 55.
Kitschen, Friederike. "Das Papierne Museum: Julius Meier-Graefe und die Vergegenwärtigung Paul Cézannes in Bild und Wort." In Julius Meier-Graefe: Grenzgänger der Künste, Becker, Ingeborg and Stephanie Marchal (editors). Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2017, p. 189, fig. 7 p. 190 (reproduction of ill. in Meier-Graefe 1918), as Die Kartenspieler.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. London and Princeton, N,J.: National Portrait Gallery Publications and Princeton University Press, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 55.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 96, 1892-95.
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. 223, 224, pp. 235-236.
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. 240, fig. 9, as The Card Players.
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pls. 63, 73 (detail).
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Les Joueurs de cartes, 1891–96 (FWN 686)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=691 (accessed on January 13, 2025).
