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 130
L'Allée
c.1879
Alternate titles: Allée d'arbres; Allée in Chantilly; Allén till Zolas landställe; Allén till Zolas landställe i Médon; Allén till Zolas lanthus; Avenue; Avenue of trees; Il Viale; L'allée de la maison d'Émile Zola, Médan; La Maison de Rodin à Meudon; The Allée
Rewald (409): c.1879
Oil on canvas
28 7/8 x 23 13/16 in. (73.5 x 60.5 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kunstforeningen (Copenhagen Art Society), Copenhagen, Denmark, Nordiske og Franske Impressionister [Scandinavian and French Impressionists], October 30–November 11, 1889, lent by Gauguin.
Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Franske Impressionister i dansk Eje [French Impressionists in Danish Collections], April 9–May 7, 1911.
Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, Fransk konst: Bonnard, Cézanne, Corot, […], December 1929, no. 2, as Allén till Zolas landställe.
Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet:25 år: Jubileumsutställning, November 1943, no. 3, ill., as Allén till Zolas lanthus, lent by Göteborgs Konstmuseum.
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Cézanne till Picasso, fransk konst i svensk ägo, September 1954, no. 68, ill. on cover, as L'allée de la maison d'Émile Zola, Médan, 1885-86, lent by Göteborgs Konstmuseum.
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Franse landschappen van Cézanne tot heden [Le paysage français à nos jours], October 4–November 17, 1963, no. 23, pl. 1, as Allée d'arbres, c. 1880-82, lent by Göteborgs Konstmuseum.
Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Humlebæk, Denmark, Göteborgs Konstmuseum: besøger Louisiana, March 26–May 2, 1966, no. 4.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 82, ill., as L'Allée. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni, March 7–July 7, 2002, listed p. 126, ill., as Il Viale, lent by Göteborgs Konstmuseum.
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. 23, ill., p. 139, as Avenue. Traveled to: Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark, February 21–May 25, 2003.
Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, Cézanne & Giacometti: Paths of Doubt, February 20–June 29, 2008, no. 12, ill. p. 55, as L'Allée, lent by Göteborgs konstmuseum.
Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark, Modernism: Reinventing Painting, 1908–41, March 30–August 26, 2012, no. 3, ill., p. 152, fig. 3.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 7, ill.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 18, ill. c. 1880–82, shown in London only. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Gauguin, Paul. "Letter to Camille Pissarro, n.d. [probably written between 25 and 29 July 1883 in Paris]." In Correspondance de Paul Gauguin: documents témoignages, 1 [1873-1888], Victor Merlhès, ed. Paris: Fondation Singer-Polignac, 1984, pp. 50-51, as ... une allée ébouchée ...
Gauguin, Paul. "Letter to his wife, n.d. [probably written in the first fortnight of December 1885 in Paris]." In Correspondance de Paul Gauguin: documents témoignages, 1 [1873-1888], Victor Merlhès, ed. Paris: Fondation Singer-Polignac, 1984, p. 118.
Gauguin, Paul. Sketchbook, known as Album Briand. , p. 5 (as size 20), as Allée d'arbres, list datable to c. Jan. 1888.
Madsen, Karl. "Kunst. Impressionisterne i Kunstforeningen, II." Politiken, November 10, 1889.
Giersing, Harald. "Franske Impressionisters Arbejder i dansk Eje (French Impressionists in Danish collections)." Det nye Kunstblad no 10 (April 1911), pp. 253–55.
Hoppe, Ragnar. "Moderna franska mästare i Stockholm." Konstrevy (Stockholm) VI, no. 1 (1930), ill. p. 14, as Allén till Zolas landställe.
Madsen, Karl. "Paul Gauguins malerisamling." Konstrevy (Stockholm) VII (1931), p. 163, ill., as Allén till Zolas landställe i Médon.
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, ill. p. 160 (as an example of a forgery).
Ryndel, Nils. Franskt Maleri i Göteborgs Konstmuseum. Göteborg: Rundqvists Boktryckeri, 1961, p. 71 (with English summary, p. 63), p. 29, ill.
Bodelsen, Merete. "Gauguin's Cézannes." The Burlington Magazine 104, no. 710 (May 1962), p. 208, fig. 43.
Feist, Peter Heinz. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1963, pl. 49, as Allée in Chantilly.
Bodelsen, Merete. Gauguin og Impressionisterne. Copenhagen: Kunstforeningen, 1968, pp. 79-92, ill. p. 81.
Bodelsen, Merete. "Early Impressionist Sales 1874–94 in the light of some unpublished 'procès-verbaux.'" The Burlington Magazine 110, no. 783 (June 1968), p. 335.
Bodelsen, Merete. "Gauguin, the Collector." The Burlington Magazine 112, no. 810 (September 1970), p. 594 and p. 606, Catalogue no. 8, as Allée d'arbres.
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. 409, ill. vol. 2, as L'Allée.
Shiff, Richard. "Cézanne in the Wild." The Burlington Magazine 148, no.1242 (September 2006), pp. 609-610 fig. 28 p. 610, as Avenue of trees.
Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Gli artisti italiani e Cézanne." In Cézanne et gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 71, fig. 93.
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. 166, fig. 1, as The Allée.
Notes
Many scholars have rejected this painting as an authentic work by Cezanne, but it has been shown that Gauguin bought it directly from Tanguy in summer 1883 along with Montagnes en Provence, c.1879 (124). Both paintings were relined shortly thereafter.
Record last updated March 16, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Allée, c.1879 (FWN 130)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=403 (accessed on December 30, 2024).
