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 684
Les Joueurs de cartes
1893–96
Alternate titles: Deux hommes jouant aux cartes; Die Kartenspieler; Joueurs de cartes; Kaartspelers; La partie de cartes; Les joueurs de cartes; The Card Players; The Cardplayers; Twee kaartspelers
Rewald (714): 1893–96; Venturi revised: 1890–92; Venturi (558): 1890–92; Rivière: 1891; Cooper: after Nos. 713 and 781, but before Nos. 656–59; Gowing: c.1895 (Burlington)
Oil on canvas
18 1/2 x 22 1/4 in. (47 x 56.5 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3338, Deux joueurs de cartes dont un fumeur, une table au milieu du tableau sur laquelle ils s'accoudent porte une petite bouteille noire, 46 x 55 cm (125 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 163, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1891
Provenance
Exhibition History
Musée du Louvre, Paris, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la peinture, 1945, no. 2, as Les Joueurs de cartes, c. 1890.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 4–August 4, 1953, no. 18, ill. p. [13], lent by Musée du Louvre, Paris. Traveled to: Musée Masséna, Nice, France, August 8–September 12, 1953; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble, France, September 15–October 18, 1953.
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 55, pl. XXIV, lent by Musée du Louvre.
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Mostra di capolavori della pittura francese dell'ottocento, February–March 1955, no. 9, fig. 87, as Les Joueurs de cartes, c. 1885-90. Traveled to: Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy, April–May 1955.
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 37, ill. lent by Louvre.
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 33, pl. 21.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition Cézanne: Tableaux, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 1–August 15, 1961, no. 12, pl. 8.
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal, Un siècle de peinture française 1850-1950 - Um Século de pintura francesa 1850-1950, 1965, no. 22, ill., and cover, as Les joueurs de cartes, c. 1885-1890, lent by Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Mauritshuis, The Hague, the Netherlands, Vijf eeuwen schilderkunst: in het licht van Vermeer, June 25–September 5, 1966, no. 49, ill., as Twee kaartspelers, c. 1890-92, lent by Musée du Louvre, Paris. Traveled to: Orangerie, Paris, September 24–November 28, 1966 (Cinq siècles de peinture: dans la lumière de Vermeer).
Orangerie, Paris, Cinq siècles de peinture: dans la lumière de Vermeer, September 24–November 28, 1966, no. 51, ill., as Les joueurs de cartes, c. 1890-92, lent by Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne dans les musées nationaux, July 19–October 14, 1974, extended until October 28, no. 44, ill. in b/w, as Les joueurs de cartes, c. 1873-1896.
Grand Palais, Paris, De Renoir à Matisse: 22 chefs-d'oeuvre des musées soviétiques et français, June 6–September 18, 1978, no. 6, ill., as Les joueurs de cartes.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 66, ill.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 134, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 34, ill. Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 57, ill., as Les Joueurs de cartes. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
National Palace Museum, Tapei, Taiwan, De Poussin à Cézanne: 300 ans de peinture française, November 15, 2001–February 20, 2002, n. no., ill., pp. 58-59, ill., as Les Joueurs de cartes, c. 1890-95.
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, De tijd van Degas, March 23–July 15, 2002, n. no., pp. 118-119, ill., as Kaartspelers, c. 1893-96.
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, The Impressionists: Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay, June 17–September 26, 2004, n. no., pp. 136-137, 213, ill, as Les Joueurs de cartes, c. 1890-95.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 30, ill., (dated 1890–99). Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, September 14, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 42, fig. 45, pp. 43, 342, as Les Joueurs de cartes. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, February 17–May 13, 2007; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, June 19–September 16, 2007.
Courtauld Gallery, London, Cézanne's Card Players, October 21, 2010–January 16, 2011, no. 12, ill., as The Card Players, c. 1892–96. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 9–May 8, 2011.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 126, ill.
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California, Tête-à-tête: Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay, March 27–June 22, 2015, n.no., pp. 49-52, 57, ill. p. 48 and front cover (detail), as Les Joueurs de cartes, c. 1892-96.
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary, Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction, October 28, 2021–February 13, 2022, no. 73, ill.
Published References
Lecomte, Georges. "La Crise de la peinture française." L'Art et les Artistes 12 (October 1910), p. 24, ill., as Deux hommes jouant aux cartes.
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. Cézanne. With contributions by O. Mirbeau, T. Duret, L. Werth, et al. Paris: Editions Hollande, 1914, pl. XLIV.
Denis, Maurice. "Cézanne: I [and] II." Kunst und Künstler 12, no. 4 and no. 5 (1914), ill. p. 212.
Coquiot, Gustave. "Paul Cézanne." Le Carnet des artistes: art ancien, art moderne, arts appliqués, no. 9 (1917), ill. p. 9.
Paul Vitry, Carle Dreyfus, Paul Leprieur... [et al.]. Catalogue de la Collection Isaac de Camondo. Paris: Musée national du Louvre, 1922, no. 153, as Les Joueurs de cartes, c. 1885.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 218, listed.
Brière, Gaston. Musée National du Louvre: catalogue des peintures exposées dans les galeries. I, école française. Paris: Musées Nationaux, Palais du Louvre, 1924, p. 24, no. CA. 153, as Les joueurs de cartes, c. 1885.
Schwabacher, Sascha. "Die Impressionisten der Sammlung Camondo im Louvre." Der Cicerone 19, no. 12 (1927), p. 376, ill. p. 375, as Die Kartenspieler.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, pp. 72-73, fig. 37, pl.XXVII.
Focillon, Henri. La Peinture aux XIXe et XXe siècles. Du réalisme à nos jours. Paris: H. Laurens, 1928, p. 275, ill.
Jamot, Paul. "Ecole française: XIXe siècle - 3e partie." In La peinture au musée du Louvre I, Ecole française. Paris: L'Illustration, 1929, pp. 76-78, pl. 59, as Les Joueurs de cartes.
Schneider, René. L'Art français, XIXe et XXe siècles. Du réalisme à notre temps. Paris: H. Laurens, 1930, pl. 72.
Besson, George (introduction). "Paul Cézanne: 1839–1906." Estampes. Paris: Braun & Cie, August 1936 (no. 4), fig. 13 p. 7 et no. 17937 p. 15 (portfolio of 10 color plates).
Larguier, Léo. Paul Cézanne ou le drame de la peinture. Paris: Denoël et Steele, 1936, p. 9.
Rocheblave, Samuel. La Peinture française au XIXe siècle. Paris: Éditions Hypérion, 1936, pl. VIII.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 558, ill. vol. II, as Les joueurs de cartes.
Vollard, Ambroise. Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux. Paris: Albin Michel, 1937, p. 11, ill.
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.
Besson, George. Cézanne, 10 Planches en couleurs. Paris: Les Éditions Braune & Cie, 1938(?).
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 127, listed.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 27, ill.
Adhémar, Hélène et al. Catalogue des peintures et sculptures exposées au Musée de l’Impressionnisme (Jeu de Paume des Tuileries): les impressionnistes, leurs précurseurs et leurs contemporains. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1947, p. 26, no. 38, as Les Joueurs de cartes, c. 1885-1890.
Bazin, Germain. L'Epoque impressionniste. Paris: P. Tisné, 1947, pl. 69, as Les Joueurs de cartes, 1890-92.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 56, as Les joueurs de cartes, 1890-92.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 72, pl. XXVII fig. 37, as The Cardplayers.
Sargent, Winthrop. "Cézanne: The Great Paintings of a Frustrated Recluse Changed the Whole Course of Modern Art." Life 32, no. 8 (February 25, 1952), pp. 85–86, ill.
Hartlaub, G.F. Die Impressionisten in Frankreich. Wiesbaden: Emil Vollmer Verlag, [c. 1953], ill. p. 33, as Die Kartenspieler.
Hofmann, Werner. Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). Munich, Vienna, Basel: Kurt Desch, 1953, pl. 15, as Die Kartenspieler, 1890-1892.
Rousseau, Théodore, Jr. Paul Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1953, pl. 15.
Adhémar, Hélène. Catalogue des peintures, pastels, sculptures impressionnistes du Musée du Louvre. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1958, p. 25, no. 48.
Bazin, Germain. Trésors de l'impressionnisme au Louvre. Paris: A. Somogy, 1958, pp. 206-207, ill. 1885-1890.
Berger, René. Découverte de la peinture. Lausanne: La Guilde du Livre, 1958, fig. 346, p. 283, as Les Joueurs de cartes.
Sterling, Charles, and Hélène Adhémar. La Peinture au Musée du Louvre, vol. I. Paris: Éditions des Musées Nationaux, 1958, fig. 265.
Mathey, François. Les Impressionnistes et leur temps. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1959, p. 221, ill., as The Card Players.
Perruchot, Henri. Dix Grands Peintres. Paris: Gauthier-Languereau, 1961, pp. 131–32, ill.
Grünigen, Berchtold von. Vom Impressionismus zum Tachismus. Basel: Birkhäuser, 1964, p. 25, fig. 24.
Badt, Kurt. The Art of Cézanne. Translated by Sheila Ann Ogilvie. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1965, p. 89.
Adhémar, Hélène, and Anne Dayez. Musée du Jeu de Paume. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1973, listed p. 141, ill. p. 23, as Les Joueurs de cartes, c. 1885-90.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 28 (with comments).
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.
Adriani, Götz. Paul Cézanne. Zeichnungen. Cologne: DuMont, 1978. Exhibition catalogue, p. 70, ill., as Die Kartenspieler.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's 'Cardplayers' and Their Sources." Arts Magazine 55, no. 3 (Nov. 1980), fig. 13.
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 69, ill. in color.
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 35.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 38.
Le Pichon, Yann. The Real World of the Impressionists: Painting and Photographs, 1848–1918. New York: C.N. Potter, 1984, p. 183, ill.
Lucie-Smith, Edward. Chefs-d’œuvre impressionnistes du Musée du Jeu de Paume. London: Thames & Hudson, 1984, p. 34, ill.
Wetzel, Christoph. Paul Cézanne: Leben u. Werk. Stuttgart/Zurich: Belser, 1984, p. 54/55, ill. in color.
Compin, Isabelle et Anne Roquebert. Catalogue sommaire illustré des peintures du musée du Louvre et du musée d'Orsay. 3, École Française, A-K. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1986, p. 112, ill., as Les joueurs de cartes, c. 1890-95.
Laclotte, Michel, Genviève Lacambre, Anne Distel, et al. La Peinture au Musée d'Orsay. Paris: Editions Scala, 1986, p. 91, ill.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 194, ill. in color.
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 130, ill. in color.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 163, ill.
Wattenmaker, Richard et al. Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, p. 125, fig. 4.
Dossier de l'art. no. 25, Cézanne. Dijon: Editions Faton, September - October 1995, ill. pp. 48-49.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 95.
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. 714, ill. vol. 2, as Les Joueurs de cartes.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "The Path to Les Lauves: A History of Cézanne's Studios." In Atelier Cézanne, 1902–2002: Le centenaire. Aix-en-Provence: Société Paul Cézanne, 2002, fig. 25, ill. in color.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 213, fig. 5.27, 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. 131, ill. in color.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. "Cézanne and His Friends at Jas de Bouffan." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 33, ill. in color.
Dittmann, Lorenz. Die Kunst Cézannes: Farbe, Rythmus, Symbolik. Cologne: Böhlau, 2005, pl. 9.
Tosini, Aurora Scotti. "Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)." In Cézanne, Renoir. Milan: Skira, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 51, ill.
Jensen, Robert. "Vollard and Cézanne: An Anatomy of a Relationship." In Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 43, fig. 45, as The Cardplayers.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 264; vol. 2, p. 174, as Les joueurs de cartes.
Burnstock, Aviva, Charlotte Hale, Caroline Campbell, and Gabriella Macaro. "Cézanne's Development of the Card Players." In Cézanne's Card Players. London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2010. Exhibition catalogue, p. 38, fig. 12 (detail).
Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne abstraction faite. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2011, p. 167, fig. 109.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 314, pl. 145.
Marion, Jean Luc. "La Peinture en vérité: La vérité en peinture." In Courbet/Cézanne: La vérité en peinture. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 19, fig. 6.
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, figs. 214, 224, pp. 226, 236.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 164, ill., as La partie de cartes.
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. 8, as The Card Players.
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 62.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Les Joueurs de cartes, 1893–96 (FWN 684)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=692 (accessed on October 6, 2024).