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FWN 244

L'Allée à Chantilly

1888

Alternate titles: Alamada en Chantilly; Allée à Chantilly; Avenue at Chantilly; Avenue of Trees at Chantilly; Baumbestandener Weg mit Durchblick auf Dächer; Die Barriere; L'Allée à Chantilly, I; L'Allée à Chantilly, III; Landschaft; Park Allee; Promenade in Chantilly; Strasse in Chantilly; Walk at Chantilly

Rewald (616): 1888; Venturi revised: 1888; Cézanne fils: 1888; Venturi (627): 1888

Oil on canvas

32 x 25 1/2 in. (81.3 x 64.8 cm)

Vollard A stockbook: no. 3473, huile; paysage à Chantilly; à travers des arbres montant jusqu'en haut du tableau on aperçoit des maisons (200 frs)

Vollard archives: photo no. 40, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Chantilly 1887

Toledo Museum of Art (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Levis)

Keywords

Locales
Northern France:
- Chantilly »
Landscape
Natural motifs:
- allée »
Landscape
Man-made motifs:
- barrier/ barrière »
- house(s) / maison(s) »
- road / path /route / chemin »

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris

Paul Cassirer, Berlin (1907)

Hugo Cassirer, Berlin;

Lotte Cassirer-Fürstenberg, Berlin

[Justin K. Thannhauser, New York]

Mr. and Mrs. William Burden, Washington, D.C., and New York

[Knoedler Galleries, New York (May 14, 1953)]

Mr. and Mrs. William Levis, Perrysburg (Sept. 22, 1953);

Toledo Museum of Art (1959)

Exhibition History

1909b Berlin

Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XII. Jahrgang, III. Ausstellung, November 17–December 12, 1909, no. 34, as Landschaft, lent by Private collection [Hugo Cassirer].

1912 Cologne

Städtische Ausstellungshalle, Cologne, Internationale Kunstausstellung des Sonderbundes Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, May 25–September 30, 1912, no. 136, as Baumbestandener Weg mit Durchblick auf Dächer, lent by H. Cassirer.

1914 Dresden

Galerie Ernst Arnold, Dresden, Germany, Französische Malerei des XIX. Jahrhunderts, April–May 1914, no. 2, as Park Allee, lent by Hugo Cassirer, Berlin.

1921 Berlin

Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Cézanne-Ausstellung: Cézannes Werke in deutschem Privatbesitz: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, November–December 11, 1921, no. 12, as Die Barriere, lent by Hugo Cassirer.

1939 Buenos Aires and traveling

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina Republic, La Pintura francesca: de David a nuestros días, July 18–August 1939, no. 8, as Alamada en Chantilly, 1888, lent by Mme F[ürstenberg]. Traveled to: Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes Juan B. Castagnino, Rosario, Argentina Republic, August 31–September 10, 1939; Salón Nacional de Bellas Artes, Montevideo, Uruguay, April 1940; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, June–July 1940.

1940 Montevideo

Salón Nacional de Bellas Artes, Montevideo, Uruguay, La Pintura francesa: de David a nuestros días, April 1940, no. 4, as Alamada en Chantilly, 1888, lent by Mme F[ürstenberg].

1940–41 San Francisco

M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, The Paintings of France since the French Revolution, December 7, 1940–January 1941, no. 4, ill. p. 88, as Promenade in Chantilly, lent by Mrs. F, Paris.

1941b New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, French Painting from David to Toulouse-Lautrec, February 6–March 26, 1941, no. 6.

1941 Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Masterpieces of French Art Lent by the Museums and Collectors of France, April 10–May 20, 1941, no. 13, pl. XXXIX, as Walk at Chantilly, lent by Mme. F, Paris.

1941c Los Angeles

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, The Paintings of France since the French Revolution, June–July 1941, no. 10, ill.

1941 Portland

Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, Masterpieces of French Painting, September 3–October 5, 1941, no. 6, lent by Mme F, Paris.

1949a New York

The Century Association, New York, Trends in European Painting, February 2–March 31, 1949, no. 4, ill.

1990 Edinburgh

National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 44, ill.

1995–96 Paris and traveling

Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 118, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.

2012–13 Budapest

Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 118, ill.

2014a Madrid

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 8, ill.

2022–23 Chicago and traveling

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 83, ill. catalogued, but not shown. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.

Published References

Weisbach 1911

Weisbach, Werner. Impressionismus: Ein Problem der Malerei in der Antike und Neuzeit ,vol. II. Berlin: G. Grote'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1911, color pl. between pp. 160 and 161, as Landschaft.

Vollard 1914

Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 48.

Ahlers-Hestermann 1919

Ahlers-Hestermann, Friedrich. "Zu einem Bild von Paul Cézanne." Genius 1, no. 1 (1919), p. 59, ill.

Venturi 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 627, ill. vol. II, as Allée à Chantilly.

Wehle 1941

Wehle, Harry B. "French Painting from David to Toulouse-Lautrec." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 36, no. 2 (February 1941), p. 31, as Avenue of Trees at Chantilly.

Schapiro 1952a

Schapiro, Meyer. Cézanne. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1952, pp. 80–81, ill.

Hofmann 1953

Hofmann, Werner. Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). Munich, Vienna, Basel: Kurt Desch, 1953, pl. 19, as Strasse in Chantilly, 1888.

Rousseau 1953

Rousseau, Théodore, Jr. Paul Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1953, pl. 19.

Beucken 1955

Beucken, Jean de. Un portrait de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, [1955], p. 217.

Schapiro 1973

Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 25 (with comments).

Elgar 1975

Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 64.

Machotka 1996

Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 130, fig. 115, with photograph of the motif, p. 129, fig. 114, as Allée à Chantilly.

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. 616, ill. vol. 2, as L'Allée à Chantilly, III.

Bach 2000

Bach, Friedrich Teja. "The Stake in the Pictorial Flesh: Disruptions in Cézanne's Oeuvre." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 69, fig. 10, as L'Allée à Chantilly, III.

Schwarz 2000

Schwarz, Birgit. "Landscapes." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 288, fig. 1, as L'Allée à Chantilly, III.

Machotka 2011a

Machotka, Pavel. "Des paysages du nord aux premiers pas du cubisme." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 190, fig. 103, as L'Allée à Chantilly.

Schaefer 2012

Schaefer, Barbara, ed. "Sonderbundausstellung 1912 - Rekonstruktion." 1912, Mission Moderne: die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes. Cologne: Wienend, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, no. 136, p. 555.

Yeide 2012

Yeide, Nancy H. "The spirit of France: the 1940–46 exhibition of French art in the United States." The Burlington Magazine 154, no. 1313 (August 2012), ill. p. 569, as Avenue at Chantilly, 1887.

Echte and Feilchenfeldt 2013d

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. 309, ill.

Machotka 2014

Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 136, fig. 47b, with color photo of motif, fig. 47a, as L'Allée à Chantilly, I.

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. 168, fig. 2, as Avenue at Chantilly.

Athanassoglou-Kallmyer 2023

Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. "Cézanne nostalgique: Nostalgia, Memory, Illusion." Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Autumn 2023, fig. 22.

Notes

Machotka thinks this is the first of the series and should be retitled: L'Allée à Chantilly, I.

Site identified by Pavel Machotka,

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Record last updated August 18, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Allée à Chantilly, 1888 (FWN 244)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=598 (accessed on April 24, 2024).