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 547
Le Jardinier Vallier
1905–06
Alternate titles: Le Jardinier; Portrait de Vallier; The Gardener Vallier; The Gardner
Rewald (950): 1905–06; Venturi revised: 1906; Venturi (715): 1900–1906; Cooper: 1904–5; Gowing: c.1906 (Edinburgh and Burlington)
Oil on canvas
25 13/16 x 21 5/8 in. (65.5 x 55 cm)
Vollard W stockbook: no. 5541, Le jardinier, 65 x 54 (250,000 Fr)
Vollard archives: photo no. 545, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1903
Provenance
Exhibition History
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 65, as Le Jardinier, c. 1906, lent by the Tate Gallery. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, Les Sources du XXe siècle: les arts en Europe de 1884 à 1914, November 4, 1960–January 23, 1961, no. 88, as Le Jardinier, 19004-05, lent by The Tate Gallery, London.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 16, ill.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, hors catalogue, shown in London and Philadelphia only. 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. 52, ill., (dated c. 1906). Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 38, ill., as Le Jardinier Vallier. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 154, ill. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
National Gallery, London, Cézanne in Britain, October 4, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 42, ill., as The Gardener Vallier, c. 1905–06.
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Cézanne, Picasso, Mondriaan: in nieuw perspectief, October 17, 2009–January 24, 2010, no. 11, ill., as Le Jardinier Vallier.
Palazzo Reale, Milan, Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi, October 20, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 38, ill., as Le Jardinier Vallier, lent by Tate Gallery, London.
National Art Center, Tokyo, Cézanne: Paris-Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012, no. 88, ill.
Grand Palais, Paris, Jardin, March 3–July 24, 2017, no. 217, ill., as Le Jardinier Vallier, 1906, shown until June 8.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 68, ill. shown in Paris only.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 26.2, ill. Traveled to: National Portrait Gallery, London, October 26, 2017–February 11, 2018; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, March 25–July 1, 2018.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 229, Tate, London.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 136, ill. c. 1906, Reflection: "Immaterial Statements of Matter" by Etal Adnan, p.205. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 715, ill. vol. II, as Le Jardinier.
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), pp. 55 and 56, as Portrait de Vallier.
Rothenstein, John. Modern Foreign Pictures in the Tate Gallery. London: Trustees of the Tate Gallery, 1949, pl. 62.
Alley, Ronald. The Foreign Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. London: Tate Gallery, 1959, p. 34, pl. 22g.
Stokes, Adrian. "Cézanne." In The Critical Writings of Adrian Stokes, vol. 2, 1937–58. London: Thames & Hudson, 1978, fig. 94, commentary p. 266.
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 79, ill. in color.
Sitwell, Christine Leback. "The Gardener." In Completing the Picture. London: Tate Gallery, 1982. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 73–76, ill.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 173, 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. 950, ill. vol. 2, as Le Jardinier Vallier.
Kropmanns, Peter. Cézanne: Eine Biographie. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2006, ill. between pp. 116 and 117.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 376; vol. 2, p. 238, as Le Jardinier Vallier.
Ireson, Nancy and Wright Barnaby. "Cézanne's Card Player. An Introduction." In Cézanne's Card Players. London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2010. Exhibition catalogue, p. 19, fig. 3.
Cézanne, Paul. The Letters of Paul Cézanne. Edited and translated by Alex Danchev. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson; Getty Publications, 2013, p. 377, ill.
Verdi, Richard. "Rembrandt and Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 157, no. 1350 (September 2015), fig. 18, as The Gardener Vallier, c. 1905-06.
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 316, ill.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 58.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Jardinier Vallier, 1905–06 (FWN 547)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=923 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
