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Paul Cézanne

Chestnut Trees and Farm at Jas de Bouffan
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Description

Maker

Paul Cézanne (French, 1839-1906)

Title

Chestnut Trees and Farm at Jas de Bouffan

Year

ca. 1886

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

oil paint

Supports

Geography

Place Made: France

Dimensions

65.4 x 81 cm (25 3/4 x 31 7/8 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Museum Appropriation Fund

Object Number

33.053

Type

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris; Paul Rosenberg, Paris; Marcel Kapferer, Paris, Galerie Zborowski, Paris/New York; 1933, Purchased by (RISD Museum), Providence, RI

Projects & Publications

Publications

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

European Galleries
Sep 02, 2017

Label copy

A row of chestnut trees leads into the garden of Jas de Bouffan, a house near Aix-en-Provence that was owned by Cézanne’s family. Cézanne built a studio on the property in 1881, preferring his home region in the south of France to life in Paris.

Cézanne used strong diagonals to establish the depth of the foreground in this scene. Outlining the columnar trunks of the trees, he filled their branches and the lawn below with strokes of close-hued greens that screen the yellow stucco buildings. Distinctive patches of brushstrokes identify hard and soft forms, creating surface rhythms that move the eye in and out of the natural landscape and its geometric structures.

Inventing Impressionism
Oct 21, 2016 – Jun 11, 2017

Label copy

Establishing the depth of the foreground in this scene with strong diagonals, Cézanne outlined the columnar trunks of the trees, filling their branches and the lawn below with strokes of close-hued greens that screen the yellow stucco buildings. Distinctive patches of brushstrokes identify his perceptions of hard and soft forms, creating surface rhythms that move the eye in and out of the natural landscape and its geometric structures.

This is the garden of Jas de Bouffan, a house owned by Cézanne’s family near Aix-en-Provence. Cézanne built a studio on the property in 1881, preferring his home region in the south of France to life in Paris.

European Painting and Sculpture, circa 1770-1937
Oct 18, 1991 – Jan 26, 1992
Exchange Exhibition of Paintings from Rose Museum, Brandeis University
Feb 16, 1967 – Apr 02, 1967
Cézanne
Sep 23, 1954 – Oct 20, 1954

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Tombstone

Paul Cézanne (French, 1839-1906)
Chestnut Trees and Farm at Jas de Bouffan, ca. 1886
Oil on canvas
65.4 x 81 cm (25 3/4 x 31 7/8 inches)
Museum Appropriation Fund 33.053

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