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 92
Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan
c.1876
Alternate titles: "Mon Jardin"; Jas de Bouffan; Jas de Bouffan, le bassin; Jas de Bouffan: Le Bassin; Jas de Bouffon [sic]; Landschaft; Le Jas de Bouffan; Le Jas de Bouffant [sic]; Mon Jardin
Rewald (278): c.1876; Venturi revised: c.1876; Cézanne fils: 1885; Venturi (167): 1875–76; Rivière: 1885; Gowing: 1875 or 1876
Oil on canvas
19 5/16 x 21 5/8 in. (49 x 55 cm)
18 3/16 x 22 3/16 in. (46.1 x 56.3 cm) ((Hermitage))
Vollard A stockbook: no. 4168, paysage (Exposition Centennale), 45 x 55 cm
Vollard archives: photo no. 6, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1885
Provenance
Exhibition History
Exposition Universelle, Grand Palais, Paris, Centennale de l'Art français, 1800–1899, April 15–October 15, 1900, no. 88, as Mon Jardin, lent by Vollard [on behalf of Cézanne fils].
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Sonderausstellung Paul Cézanne, April 22–June 15, 1904, no number, as "Mon Jardin".
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Rétrospective d'oeuvres de Cézanne, October 1–22, 1907, no. 26, as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan, lent by Cézanne fils.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 6–17, 1914, no. 5, as Le Jas de Bouffant [sic], for sale.
Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany, Internationale Ausstellung, February 1–March 31, 1914, no. 74, as Jas de Bouffon [sic], lent by Bernheim-Jeune, for sale.
Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany, Ausstellung von Meisterwerken der modernen Malerei aus Bremischen Privatbesitz, May 15–June 12, 1918, no. 4, as Le Jas de Bouffan, lent by Adele Wolde.
Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany, [Ausstellung von Franzosen und Neuerwerbungen in der Bremer Kunsthalle], Summer 1922, as Jas de Bouffan.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition rétrospective Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) au profit de la caisse du Monument Cézanne, June 1–30, 1926, no. 44, as Le Jas de Bouffan, lent by Bernheim-Jeune.
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Hidden Treasures Revealed: Impressionist Masterpieces and Other Important French Paintings Preserved by The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, 1995–96, no. 46, ill., pp. 176–81.
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 6, ill., (size: 46.1 x 56.3 cm). Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).
Published References
Duret, Théodore. "Paul Cézanne." Kunst und Künstler 5, no. 3 (1907), ill. p. 100, as Landschaft.
Alten, Wilken von. "Die internationale Ausstellung in der Bremer Kunsthalle." Kunst und Künstler 12, no. 7 (1914), p. 386, as Jas de Bouffan.
E.[mil] W.[aldmann]. "Ausstellungen: Bremen." Kunst und Künstler 16, no. 9 (1918), p. 357, as Jas de Bouffan.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 212, listed, ill. p. 57, as Mon Jardin.
"[no article]." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 6, no. 134 (July 1, 1925), p. 294, ill.
Anonymous. "L'exposition du peintre aixois Paul Cézanne." Le Petit Provençal, June 2, 1926, p. 2, as Le Jas de Bouffan.
Dormoy, Marie, translated by Margarete Mauthner. "Die Cézanne - Ausstellung bei Bernheim-Jeune." Kunst und Künstler 24, no. 11 (1926), p. 448.
T.[abarant], [Adolphe]. "L'exposition Cézanne." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 7, no. 12 (June 15, 1926), ill. p. [178], as Le Jas de Bouffan.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 47, as Landschaft.
Waldmann, Emil. Die Kunst des Realismus und des Impressionismus. Berlin: Propyläen-Verlag, 1927, p. 496, ill.
Fage, André. Le collectionneur de peintures modernes: comment acheter, comment vendre. Paris: Éditions Pittoresques, 1930, pl. IX, as Le Jas de Bouffan.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 129, ill.
Hazama, Mosuke, Genichiri Adachi, and Kaziamasa Nakogawa, eds. Recueil important des oeuvres de Paul Cézanne. Vol. 1: Paysages, edited by Hazama. Vol. 2: Portraits et Nus., edited by Adachi. Vol. 3: Nature-mortes., edited by Nakogawa. Tokyo: Atorie-sha, 1935, vol. 1, Paysages, pl. 8.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 167, ill. vol. II, as Jas de Bouffan: Le Bassin.
Vollard, Ambroise. Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux. Paris: Albin Michel, 1937, pl. 31.
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. 56.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 46, fig. 28.
Vollard, Ambroise. En écoutant Cézanne, Degas, Renoir. Paris: B. Grasset, 1938, p. 82, as Mon Jardin.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 135, ill.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 183, fig. 1.
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. 278, ill. vol. 2, as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan.
"Meisterwerke im Verborgenem: die Sammlung Krebs." In Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: französische Kunst in deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, edited by Andrea Pophanken and Felix Billeter. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001, pp. 293, 294, 295.
Coutagne, Denis. "The Jas de Bouffan Landscapes." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanné. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 114, ill. in color.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 39, ill., with photo of motif (c. 1935), p. 38, as Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan.
Novotny, Fritz. Paul Cézanne: Gesammelte Schriften zu seinem Werk und Materialien aus dem Nachlaß. Introduction by Gabriel Ramin Schor (editor), Agnes Blaha (assistance). Vienna: Klever, 2011, fig. 28.
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. 500, ill.
Oberländer, Ulrike. "Der Kunstsammler Dr. Otto Krebs, seine Lebensgefährtin Frieda Kwast-Hodapp und das Rittergut Holzdorf." Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 2015, cat. no. 91, pp. 126, 127, 129, 637, 674-675, ill., as Jas de Bouffan, le bassin.
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. 119, figs. 164-165 (with computer models of motif), fig. 281 pp. 136, 169, 296 (fig. 282 p. 296 photograph of motif, J. Rewald, c. 1935).
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 103, ill., as Le Jas de Bouffan, installation photograph from 1914 exhibition, p. 101.
Notes
In spite of the Vollard stockbook entry, the work was not for sale. Vollard simply acted as agent for the artist, who lent the landscape to the Exposition Centennale in 1900.
Photograph by Lionello Venturi, 1933–35 (Courtesy Archivio di Lionello Venturi, Department of Art History and Performance, Sapienza University, Rome)
The pool and orangery of the Jas de Bouffan.
John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.
Photo: John Rewald, circa 1935; © Sabine Rewald
Record last updated April 12, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan, c.1876 (FWN 92)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=3 (accessed on April 26, 2024).
