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)
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© The Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania, USA/ The Bridgeman Art Library
FWN 681
Les Joueurs de cartes
1890–92
Alternate titles: Card Players; Die Kartenspieler; Die Spieler; Kaartspelers; Kartenspieler; Le joueurs; Les joueurs de cartes; Scène de cabaret; The Card Players
Rewald (706): 1890–92; Venturi revised: 1890–92; Venturi (560): 1890–92; Rivière: 1892; Vollard: 1892; Gowing: c.1892 (Burlington); Reff: 1890–91 (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
53 1/4 x 71 5/8 in. (135.3 x 181.9 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 4169, Joueurs de cartes, 135 x 183 cm
Vollard W stockbook: no. 4808, Scène de cabaret; huile, 136 x 184 (500,000)
Vollard archives: photo no. 67, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1892
Provenance
Exhibition History
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Rétrospective des Rétrospectives faites au Salon d'Automne de 1904 à 1922, November 1–December 16, 1923, no. 2355, as Les Joueurs de cartes, lent by Vollard; tentative identification.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation, May 2–August 15, 1993, no number, pp. 122–27, ill. p. 123. Traveled to: Musèe d'Orsay, Paris, November 6, 1993–January 2, 1994; National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, January 21–April 3, 1994; Kimbell Art Museum, Forth Worth, Texas, April 24–August 16, 1994; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, September 17–December 31, 1994; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, January 29–April 1995; Haus der Kunst, Munich, June 23–October 22, 1995.
Courtauld Gallery, London, Cézanne's Card Players, October 21, 2010–January 16, 2011, no. 2, ill., as The Card Players, catalogued, but not shown. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 9–May 8, 2011.
Published References
Duret, Théodore. "Paul Cézanne." Kunst und Künstler 5, no. 3 (1907), ill. p. 95, as Kartenspieler.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Paul Cézanne." In Impressionisten: Guys, Manet, van Gogh, Pissarro, Cézanne. Munich and Leipzig: R. Piper & Co., 1907, ill. p. 203, as Le joueurs, c. 1885.
"A Private Collection in Germany That Contains Fourteen Examples of the Art of Paul Cezanne, a Great Modern, Who Already Is Placed with the Old Masters, in Darmstadt." New York Times, July 6, 1913, p. 15, ill., as Card Players.
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 18, as Les Joueurs de cartes.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 195.
Deri, Max. Die Malerei im XIX. Jahrhundert: entwicklungsgeschichtliche Darstellung auf psychologischer Grundlage. Berlin: Paul Cassirer, 1919, pp. 209–12, pl. 50.
Duret, Théodore. Histoire des peintres impressionnistes: Pissarro, Claude Monet, Sisley, Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Cézanne, Guillaumin. Paris: H. Floury, 1919, pl. 13.
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne: Huit phototypies d'après Cézanne;
Lettres de M.M. Jacques Flach, de L'Institut et André Suarès. Paris: Editions Crès, 1919, frontispiece.
Vauvrecy; Paul Cézanne. "Vie de Cézanne'';''Lettres de Cézanne." L'Esprit nouveau: revue internationale d'esthétique, no. 2 (1920), ill. p. 141.
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Munich: Kurt Wolfe Verlag, 1921, ill. opp. p. 60, as Die Kartenspieler, dated 1892.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 237.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 219, listed, ill. p. 32, as Les Joueurs de cartes, dated 1892, Vollard.
Ozenfant, Amedée, and Charles Edouard Jeanneret. La Peinture moderne. Paris: Les Éditions Crès, 1924, p. 31.
A.W. "La rétrospective Cézanne s'ouvre aujourd'hui." Comoedia (Paris), June 1, 1926, p. 1, ill., as Les Joueurs de cartes.
Anonymous. "Paul Cézanne." Opgang: Geillustreerd weekblad voor godsdienst, wetenschap, kunst, [..] (Amsterdam) 6, no. 260 (February 6, 1926), p. 131, ill., as Kaartspelers, 1892, erroneously as coll. A Pellerin, Paris.
De Mazia, Violette. "L'art ancien à la Fondation Barnes." Les Arts à Paris, no. 14 (October 1927), ill.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 110, as Die Kartenspieler, 1892.
Waldmann, Emil. Paul Cézanne: Acht farbige Gemälde. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1930, frontispiece 2.
Huyghe, René. "Les origines de la peinture contemporaine: Genèse et position de l'art moderne." L'Amour de l'art 14, no. 1 (January 1933), p. 14, fig. 1 p. 2, as Les joueurs de cartes.
Olmenhove, van den. "Kunst: Paul Cézanne." Verf en kunst: maandblad van P. A. Regnault's verf-, inkt- en blikfabrieken (Surabaya) 4, no.10, no.11, no.12 (1935), ill. p. 9 (no.11), as Kaartspelers.
Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1936, fig. 55.
Sterling, Charles. "Cézanne et les maîtres d'autrefois." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 19, nos. 5-6 (May–June 1936), pp. 12 et 13, fig. 12, as Les Joueurs de cartes.
Rewald, John. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Art sacré: revue mensuelle, special number, Cézanne (May 1936), p. 8, fig. 3 p. 4, as Les joueurs de cartes.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 560, ill. vol. II, as Les joueurs de cartes.
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.
Zervos, Christian. Histoire de l'art contemporain. Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'art, 1938, p. 33, ill.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 141, p. 276, ill. (analysis pp. 365–68).
Niehaus, Kasper. "Paul Cézanne, redder der schilderkunst." De Telegraaf (Amsterdam), January 15, 1939, ill. p. 9, as Kaartspelers.
Jewell, Edward Alden. French Impressionists and Their Contemporaries. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944, p. 116, ill.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 57, as Les joueurs de cartes, 1890-92.
"Learning to See." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 3, no. 1 (Spring), pl. 14.
Sweeney, James Johnson. "The Albert C. Barnes Collection." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 3, no. 2 (Autumn 1972), p. 36, pl. 33.
De Mazia, Violette. "Creative Distortion III: In Portraiture." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 4, no. 2 (Autumn 1973), pl. 41.
De Mazia, Violette. "Creative Distortion IV: Portraiture II." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 5, no. 1 (Spring 1974), pl. 64.
De Mazia, Violette. "Three Aspects of Art." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 6, no. 2 (Autumn1975), pl. 20.
De Mazia, Violette. "E Pluribus Unum." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 7, no. 1 (Spring 1976), pl. 59.
De Mazia, Violette. "E Pluribus Unum – Cont'd: Part III." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 8, no. 1 (Spring 1977), pl. 107.
De Mazia, Violette. "E Pluribus Unum, Cont'd: Part IV." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 8, no. 2 (Autumn 1977), pl. 89.
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.
De Mazia, Violette. "Transferred Values: Part I – Introduction." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 9, no. 2 (Autumn 1978), pp. 5–6, 11, pl. 83.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's 'Cardplayers' and Their Sources." Arts Magazine 55, no. 3 (Nov. 1980), fig. 1.
Rubin, William. "From Narrative to 'Iconic' in Picasso: The Buried Allegory in Bread and Fruitdish on a Table and the Role of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon." The Art Bulletin 65, no. 4 (December 1983), pp. 620, 638, fig. 7.
Ely, Bruno. "Cézanne, L'Ecole de dessin et le Musée d'Aix." In Cézanne au Musée d'Aix. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1984. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 192.
De Mazia, Violette. "Tradition: An Inquiry – A Few Thoughts." Vistas 3, no. 1 (1984–86), pl. 91.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 219, fig. 108.
Shoemaker, Innis, and Theodore Reff. Paul Cézanne: Two Sketchbooks. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 118, 148, ill.
De Mazia, Violette. "The form of Seurat's 'The Models.'" Vistas 5, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 1990), pl. 47.
Gasquet, Joachim. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne. Translated by C. Pemberton. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991, p. 49, ill.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 56, ill.
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. 706, ill. vol. 2 and p. 32, ill. col. vol. 1, as Les Joueurs de cartes.
Rubin, William. "Vom Erzählerischen zum 'Ikonischen' in Picassos frühem Werk: Die verborgene Allegorie in 'Brot und Obstschale mit Früchten auf einem Tisch]." In Cézanne, Picasso, Braque: Der Beginn des kubistischen Stillebens. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 1998. Exhibition catalogue, p. 85, fig. 19.
Schmidt, Katharina. "Cézannes letztes Stilleben." In Cézanne, Picasso, Braque: Der Beginn des kubistischen Stillebens. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 1998. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 19.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 212, fig. 5.26, 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. 128, ill. in color.
Pissarro, Joachim. Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–85. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 52, fig. 48.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Gemälde: Formate und Themen, Echtheitsfragen." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 236, ill.
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. Études cézanniennes. Paris: Flammarion, 2006, p. 31, fig. 8, as Les Joueurs de cartes.
Coutagne, Denis. "The Jas de Bouffan." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 89, fig. 15, as Les Joueurs de cartes.
Green, Christopher. "Cézanne and Léger: Realizing Sensations." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 197, fig. 7.10, as The Card Players.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection - New Edition. Stein, Susan Alyson and Asher Ethan Miller. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009, fig. 116, ill. p. 157.
Bailey, Colin B. "'In the same order, but … stronger than ever': the new Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia." The Burlington Magazine 54, no. 1315 (October 2012), p. 710 mentioned, as Card Players.
Dolkart, Judith, Martha Lucy. The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2012, p. 77, ill. pp. 70–71, comments by Martha Lucy.
Ireson, Nancy. "Personalising the Past: Cézanne and the Cardplayers." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 76, fig. 38, p. 74 (detail), as The Card Players.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 313, pl. 144.
Nagaï, Takanori. "Cézanne and Jas de Bouffan." In Le "basho" dans l'art moderne français. Tokyo: Sangensha, 2016, p. 119, ill.
Serres, Karen (ed.). The Courtauld Collection, A Vision of Impressionism. Paris and London: Fondation Louis Vuitton and Paul Holberton Publishing, 2019. Exhibition catalogue (2019 Paris), p. 213, fig. 78.
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. 217 p. 229.
Buckley, Barbara and Anya Shutova. "The Barnes's Card Players: New Insights on Technique." In Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021.
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 115.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, no. 50, pp. 233–48 (fig. 16, detail), as The Card Players (catalogue notes by A. Dombrowski and N. Ireson).
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pls. 60, 72 (detail).
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Les Joueurs de cartes, 1890–92 (FWN 681)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=684 (accessed on December 21, 2024).
