La Provence par ExcellenceAix en Provence

I n t h e S T E p so f C É Z A N N e

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19 January, Paul Cézanne born at 28 Rue de l’Opéra, Aix-en-Provence.His father, Louis-Auguste Cézanne, had a felt hat business in Aix.

4 July, the artist’s sister, Marie Cézanne, born at 55 Cours Mirabeau. 29 January, wedding of Louis-Auguste Cézanne and Anne-Elizabeth Aubert, the mother of his children. Paul Cézanne attends primary school in Rue des Epineaux. 1 June, the Cézanne and Cabassol Bank is set up. Paul Cézanne attends Saint-Joseph boarding school.

At Bourbon college, Paul Cézanne makes friends with Emile Zola and Baptistin Baille. 30 June, Cézanne’s second sister, Rose Cézanne, born at 14 Rue Matheron. First enrolment in the local art school in Aix, now the Granet Museum. February, Zola leaves Aix for Paris, but returns for the sum-mer holidays. July, Cézanne fails his baccalaureate.12 November: he passes his diploma with 60-70%. Between November 1858 and August 1859, he studies hard at the local art school.

Paul Cézanne enrolled at the Law faculty of Aix. His father acquires the Jas de Bouffan property. Zola again spends his holidays in Aix. From November 1859 to August 1860, Paul Cézanne continues to study at the local art school. He wins second prize for a painted figure study. He dreams of becoming a painter. Gives up his law studies. He makes his first visit to Paris, where he joins Zola and meets Pissaro at the Swiss Academy.Discouraged, he returns to Aix and goes to work in his father’s bank, while continuing to take classes at the local art school of Aix. Leaves his father’s bank and returns to Paris (November). Exhibits in Salon des Refusés, he works at the Swiss Academy where he often meets Pissaro, Guillaumin, Guillemet and Oller, and he copies at the Louvre Museum. He is turned down at the salon, as well as in the following years. He stays in L’Estaque near Marseilles. After spending the year in Paris, he returns to Aix in the summer and makes friends with Valabrègue, Marion and the German musician Morstatt. In Aix, in the autumn, Cézanne completes a series of pain-tings using a pallet knife (still lifes and portraits). Meets Hortense Fiquet at the Swiss Academy in Paris; she becomes his partner. During the Franco-Prussian war, he takes refuge in L’Estaque. A son, Paul, is born to Cézanne and Hortense. Participates in the first and third impressionist exhibitions. Admitted to the Salon for the only time in his career. Meets Monet and Renoir in the South of France. Following the publishing of Zola’s “L’Œuvre”, Cézanne splits up with his old classmate from Bourbon College. He marries Hortense in April. His father dies in October.

The name Cézanne has been mentioned in the records of Aix-en-Provence Town Hall since 1700. Paul Cézanne’s grandparents had left Aix to settle in Saint-Zacharie (Var), where Cézanne’s father, Louis-Auguste, was born on 28 June 1798.

Life and work of the master of aix

Self-portrait with eaSel 1898-1900, lithography 63x47.2 cm, aix-en-provence, granet muSeum.

1887 Cézanne rents a room at Château Noir, in cour du Pistachier.

1895 From Aix, Cézanne goes to Sainte-Victoire mountain and Bibémus quarries, where he rents a small house. The dealer Vollard organises the first solo exhibition dedicated to Cézanne in his gallery (November).1897 Cézanne works at Le Tholonet and Bibémus quarries. His mother dies on 25 October.1899 After selling Jas de Bouffan, Cézanne does not manage to acquire the Château Noir estate. He exhibits paintings at the Salon of Independent Artists. He moves to 23 Rue Boulegon.1901 Buys a plot of land on Chemin des Lauves, overlooking Aix, to set up his studio.1902 Ambroise Vollard visits Cézanne in Aix. The painter learns with sorrow of Zola’s death.1904 Emile Bernard and Charles Camoin visit Cézanne.

1905 Cézanne exhibits works at the Autumn Salon.1906 Cézanne dies in Aix on 23 October, in his apartment on Rue Boulegon.1907 The Autumn Salon dedicates a posthumous retrospective to Cézanne, showing 56 of the artist’s works.

Text: Michel FraissetPhoto credits: F. Colin, B. Terlay, J-C Carbonne, www.christophe-duranti.com, Atelier CézanneSignage design and execution: ArdéquipMap: J.P. Sauvage Printed in France: Audry - © OT 2010Design / Production: Nouveau Monde DDB Le Tourisme

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Parkingdes 3 Bons Dieux

Terrain des Peintres

KEY : Sites open to visitors : Sites open to visitors subject to authorisation : Sites not open to visitors

: Views of the “Sainte-Victoire” painted by Cézanne

Echelle :

the Landscapes of cézanne

Green, the Tholonet routeChâteau Noir, Colline des Pauvres, Sainte-Victoire mountain View of the Tholonet road

Red, the Bibémus route The quarries, Sainte-Victoire mountain seen from the Infernets

Blue, the Arc route Trois-Sautets bridge, Palette, Sainte-Victoire mountain seen from Bayeux bridge

Yellow, the Jas de Bouffan routeJas de Bouffan house, Bellevue and Montbriand houses on Valcros hill, Sainte-Victoire with the tall pine tree

Grey, Les Lauves routeCézanne’s studio, Sainte-Victoire seen from Les Lauves, Painters’ Territory

On the maps, each path has a specific colour château noir

(19 oiLs, 20 watercoLours) From 1887 onwards, Cézanne rented a small room in the pistachio tree courtyard. « He invited me for an outing to Château Noir... One sunny afternoon, he came to pick us up in a car that he rented by the year so that, if he was tired, he could get to his subject or to his studio outside the town.We all left in high spirits, and followed a road which became more and more lovely. At last we saw some pine woods, and he made me get out to have a better look at the place, which we explored together. Despite his age, he was extremely agile and was able to clamber across the rocks »(Emile Bernard).

trois sautets BridGe (1 oiL, 2 watercoLours)On 14 August 1906 Cézanne wrote to his son: « I am waiting for 4 o’clock. The car is coming to pick me up and will take me down the river, to the Trois Sautets Bridge. It is cooler down there, yesterday it was wonderful. I began a watercolour like the ones I used to do in Fontainebleau, it seems brighter to me. The main thing is to express as much empathy as possible ».

Parkingdes 3 Bons Dieux

Terrain des Peintres

KEY : Sites open to visitors : Sites open to visitors subject to authorisation : Sites not open to visitors

: Views of the “Sainte-Victoire” painted by Cézanne

Echelle :

the Landscapes of cézanne sainte-Victoire seen from Les LauVes

44 oil paintings and 43 watercolours bear witness to

Cézanne’s love for the Sainte-Victoire. Setting up his easel

near Chemin de Marguerite, the artist chose the highest

viewpoint of the mountain. He often returned between 1902

and 1906, to finish 11 oils on canvas and 17 watercolours,

which can be seen today in the world’s greatest museums

or in private collections.

Some features of the landscape in the earliest paintings

can still be seen: wheat fields, road to the Alps, red roofs

of houses and the power plant.

In February 1904, Emile Bernard accompanied Cézanne

« on the motif ». « It was two kilometres from the studio, facing

a valley, at the foot of Sainte-Victoire, that bold mountain

that he never stopped painting in watercolour and oil,

and which filled him with admiration ». Cézanne would

settle down opposite the mountain with his easel, his paint

box, his palette and his paintbrushes. He hid from prying

eyes, away from the sunshades of landscape artists.

A few yards from there, he painted Jourdan’s cottage.

On 15 October 1906, a thunderstorm struck. Cézanne stayed

and painted in the rain for a few hours, and then had

a fainting fit. « We brought him back to Rue Boulegon

on a laundry cart, and two men had to lift him into his bed.

Early the next morning, he went down to the Lauves studio

garden to work on a portrait of Vallier under the lime tree.

He came back a dying man... ». Cézanne wanted to die whilst

painting. He passed away a week later during the night

of 22 to 23 October, from pleurisy.

As part of its policy to develop the Cézanne sites, the city

of Aix-en-Provence has created the painters’ ground

(terrain des peintres), now within the Marguerite Estate.

Opposite the mountain which, from this angle, becomes

a figurehead, ten panels depict the main « Sainte-Victoires »

painted by Cézanne from Chemin de la Marguerite.

Sainte-victoire mountain and château noir – 1904-1906, tokyo, BridgerStone muSeum of art.

BeLLeVue(11 oiLs, 2 watercoLours)On 2 December 1886 Cézanne’s sister Rose bought this property for 38,000 francs. In late 1889 Renoir joined Cézanne in Aix and rented Bellevue from Maxime Conil, the artist’s brother-in-law. Maxime Conil sold the Bellevue property in September 1895.

Practical information for all 3 Cézanne sites:Jas de Bouffan • the Bibémus quarries • Cézanne’s studioTicket Office: Tourist OfficeOpen Monday to Saturday 9.00 - 12.00 and 14.00 - 18.00Sundays and public holidays 10.00 - 13.00 and 14.00 - 18.00 (except 1/01, 1/05 and 25/12)Extended opening hours during high season: contact us for details.

Office de Tourisme d’Aix-en-Provence 2 place du Général de Gaulle - 13100 Aix-en-Provence - FRANCE www.aixenprovencetourism.com

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Entry prices for each of all 3 Cézanne sites:• Full price ................. € 5.50 • Group price ............ € 4 (15 paying visitors minimum)• Reduced price ....... € 2 (age 13 to 25 inclusive)• Free for children up to age 12 (on day of visit), minimum wage, long-term

unemployed, disabled, press cards and ICOM, tour guide. Proof shall be requested.

Cézanne Pass (3 sites)On sale at all three Cézanne sites and at the Tourist Office• Individuals .............. € 12 • Groups ..................... € 10

Transfer to and from the “Trois Bons Dieux” car park and the Bibémus quarries: information at the Tourist Office 33 (0)4 42 161 161

• Animals not allowed

Jas de Bouffan

Jas de Bouffan

Owned by the Truphème family, who were commissioners during the 18th century wars, Jas de Bouffan was bequeathed by marriage to the Joursin family, who sold it on 15 September 1859 to Louis-Auguste Cézanne, who moved in around 1870. Between 1881 and 1885, the roof of the house had to be replaced and he made a little studio in the attic for his son. On 18 September 1899, two years after the death of Mrs Cézanne, Cézanne and his two sisters sold Jas de Bouffan to Louis Granel, an agricultural engineer trained at the Ecole Polytechnique who was from Carcassonne. In 1994, the last owner, André Corsy, sold the property to the City of Aix-en-Provence, subject to life use, with the exception of the farm. Since the end of 2002, the mansion and the grounds surrounding it, classed as Historical Monuments, have been owned by the City of Aix-en-Provence, which has just started a restoration programme on the whole house.

Between 1860 and 1870, in the large oval drawing room on the ground floor Cézanne painted twelve large compositions straight on the walls, which were removed from 1912: ‘The Four Seasons: Spring, Summer, Winter, Autumn’, ‘Portrait of the Artist’s Father, Louis-Auguste Cézanne’, ‘The Bather at the Rock’, ‘The Entrance to the Château’, ‘Romantic landscape with fishermen’, ‘Hide and seek according to Lancret’, ‘Portrait of Achille Emperaire’, ‘Contrast’, ‘Christ in Limbo’ and the ‘Penitent Magdalene’. Between 1866 and 1895, Cézanne set up his easel in the grounds and painted thirty-six oils and seventeen watercolours of the house and farm, the groves and the chestnut walkway, the pond and its statues…

Guided tours of the grounds are proposed highlighting the points of view from which Cézanne painted his many works.

All tours are guided. Tours without a guide are not permitted.

• Individuals - booking recommended.Tel: 33 (0)4 42 161 161 - www.aixenprovencetourism.com Getting there: bus n° 6 from la Rotonde Victor Hugo - stop: Corsy

• Groups - open all year round: booking requiredTel: 33 (0)4 42 16 10 08 - sites@aixenprovencetourism.comCoach parties: set down in front of property in route de Galice, then parking at Louison Bobet gymnasium and Maurice David stadium.

• Closed January, February, March, 1/05 and 25/12• Tour duration 45 min

Dates and times for individuals only - 2010

1 April - 31 May and 1 - 31 October

Open Tuesdays, Thursdays, SaturdaysTours start:

10.30, 12.00, 14.00 (in English), 15.30

1 June - 30 September

Open every day - Tours start at 10.30, 12.00, 14.00 (in English), 15.30

1 November -31 December

Open onlyWednesday and Saturday 10.00

the Spring and the Summer - 1860-1861, pariS, petit palaiS

the 3 sites

of cézannethese places steeped in the presence of cézanne allow you to see the works in their original setting

Jas de Bouffan17, route de GaliceTel 33 (0)4 42 161 161www.cezanne-en-provence.com

the BiBémus quarries

Site of BiBémuS

BiBémuS QuarrieS – c. 1895, eSSen, muSeum folkwang.

All tours are guided. Tours without guides are not permitted.

• Individuals - booking advisedTel: 33 (0)4 42 161 161 - www.aixenprovencetourism.comGetting there: bus n° 4 from la Rotonde Office de TourismeStop: Trois Bons Dieux. Parking for light vehicles: Trois Bons Dieux car park.

• Groups - open all year round: booking requiredTel: 33 (0)4 42 16 10 08 - sites@aixenprovencetourism.com

• Closed January, February, March, 1/05 and 25/12• Duration of tour 1 h • Transfer: Trois Bons Dieux car park / Bibémus quarriesTel: 33 (0)4 42 161 161

Path difficult for people with reduced mobility.Walking shoes recommended

carrières de BiBémusN°3090 Chemin de BibémusTel 33 (0)4 42 161 161 - www.cezanne-en-provence.com

* During this period, the site may be closed by the prefecture based on the weather conditions for the day. Check the night before on: www.bouches-du-rhone.pref.gouv.fr – ‘Concors Sainte Victoire’ area

BiBemus quarries

In 1896, Numa Coste wrote to Emile Zola: ‘He has rented a hut in the dam quarries and spends most of his time there’. When Cézanne set up his easel in the middle of the quarries, they had not been worked for several decades. They were worked from the Roman period until the end of the 18th century. The limestone molasses walls still have oblique grooves resulting from picks used by the quarrymen to detach the blocks from the rock. In this chaotic landscape, abandoned by men, Cézanne painted eleven oils and sixteen watercolours between 1895 and 1904. Five motifs reproduced in his works are still identifiable today: ‘The Red Rock’ kept at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, the two ‘Bibémus Quarries’ kept at the Barnes Foundation and in the Stephen Hahn collection in New-York, ‘Bibémus quarry’, which is part of a private collection in Kansas City and ‘Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from Bibémus’, kept at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Cézanne also painted Mont Sainte-Victoire from the terrace of the hut. The city of Aix, which owns the premises, has done some landscaping in order to open the quarries to tours.

The adaptations made to the site in order to welcome visitors are minimalist and consider the site to be a vast ‘archaeological dig’, a pile of blocks and an area of plant life that should not be disturbed.

The route allows you to:- compare the original motif (Sainte-Victoire, nature: pine

branches and tree silhouettes but also the geometrically shaped orange ‘rocks’, which the painter used as inspiration for his striking, globally renowned works announcing Cubism), the points of view where Cézanne set up his easel, measure the composition, geometrisation and colour work,

- find the hut where the artist stored his work,- go and see the rocks and the quarry, part of the history of the city of Aix, - feel the atmosphere of a preserved site, spared by time, a place

outside of this world.The landscaping has been done by Philippe Deliau and Hélène Bensoam, ALEP, landscapers based in Cadenet

My dear Solari, on Sunday,

if you are free and you would like to,

come for lunch

at Restaurant Berne, Tholonet.

If you come in the morning

you will find me at around eight

o’clock at the quarry where

you did a study the time before

last that you came.

Letter to Solari, Le Tholonet,

end of August 1897

Dates and times for individuals only - 2010

1 April - 31 May and 1 - 31 October

Open Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays

Tours start at 10.30 and 15.30

1 June - 30 September Tours every day at 9.45*

1 November - 31 December

One tour only on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 15.00

LE THOLONETROUTE CÉZANNESAINTE VICTOIRE

PONT DES TROIS SAUTETS

PALETTEPONT DE BAYEUX

MEYREUIL

BIBÉMUSSAINT MARC

JAUMEGARDEVAUVENARGUES

JAS DE BOUFFANBELLEVUE

MONTBRIANDLE GOUR DEMARTELLY

L’ATELIER DES LAUVES

à 800m,9 av. P. Cézanne

partnership with Coupin to take over the hat shop on Cours Mirabeau, and lived above the shop. After Paul’s birth, Anne-Elizabeth Aubert and her baby moved in with the child’s father. Marie Cézanne was born there on 4 July 1841.

café des deux Garçons- 53 bis Cours Mirabeau (ground floor of the Gantès hotel)On 7 October 1906, Cézanne wrote to his son:Last night, before dinner, I spent from about 4 to 7 o’clock with Capdeville (pharmacist), Niolon (painter), Fernand Bouteille (president of the Bar), etc, at the “Deux Garçons” café.

house of cezanne’s Birth- 28 Rue de l’OpéraPaul born on 19 January 1839, in a charitable institution run by the Misses Michel, near Miss Aube’s boarding school of the Nativity.

chapeLLerie du cours miraBeauThe home of Louis-Auguste Cézanne - 55 Cours MirabeauThis is the address of the hat shop owned by François Carbonnel and his wife Marie Aubert, probably related to Anne-Elizabeth Aubert.After working in the Aix wool factory, Louis-Auguste Cézanne left for Paris to learn the hatter’s trade.On his return in 1825 he worked in the Carbonnel workshop and met Anne-Elizabeth Aubert who was a hat-maker at the time. He went into

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LE THOLONETROUTE CÉZANNESAINTE VICTOIRE

PONT DES TROIS SAUTETS

PALETTEPONT DE BAYEUX

MEYREUIL

BIBÉMUSSAINT MARC

JAUMEGARDEVAUVENARGUES

JAS DE BOUFFANBELLEVUE

MONTBRIANDLE GOUR DEMARTELLY

L’ATELIER DES LAUVES

à 800m,9 av. P. Cézanne

Bureau d’Informations Culturelles

cafe orientaL- 13 Cours Mirabeau (now Bistrot Romain)Joachim Gasquet met Paul Cézanne here in 1896. “The first time I saw him, he was in the café. Solari, Numa Coste and my father were talking with him. It was on a Sunday, at aperitif time. There they sat at a table on Cours Mirabeau, on the terrace of the Café Oriental where Alexis and Coste used to go...”

(Cultural Information Office)

Ville d’Aix-en-Provence

19, rue Gaston de Saporta

Tel. 33 (0)4 42 91 99 19

www.mairie-aixenprovence.fr

Follow Cézanne’s footsteps indicated by the trail of studs

When I was in Aix, I thought I would be better off elsewhere.

Now that I’m here, I miss Aix... when you’re born there,

that’s it, nothing else appeals.

Letter to Philippe Solari, Tailloires, 23 July

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miGnet coLLeGe- 41 Rue Cardinale (former Bourbon college)From 1852 (first year of secondary school) to 1858.After failing the first session of the arts baccalaureate on 4 August 1858, Cézanne passed with 60-70%, on 12 November 1858. He met Emile Zola, Jean-Baptiste Baille and Louis Marguery.

art schooL,Granet museum- Place Saint-Jean de MalteA student from 1857 to 1862, Cézanne took life model classes and classes in drawing from the «antique» where the models were plaster and marble figures in the museum’s collection.On 25 August 1859, he won second prize for painting at Aix municipal art school.

church of st-Jean de maLteFuneral of his mother, Madame Cézanne, on 27 October 1897.

white penitents’ chapeL - Rue du Maréchal Joffre The Bourguignon de Fabregoules collection, bequeathed to the City of Aix for the Granet Museum, was shown in this former chapel for ten years, from 1866 to 1876. On 19 October 1866 Cézanne wrote to Zola, “ Father Gilbert from the museum invited me to visit the Bourgignon Museum, and I went with Baille, Marion and Valabrègue. I found it all quite awful.”

soLari’s studio- Rue de l’Opéra

home of marie cézanne,the artist’s sister- 8 Rue Frédéric Mistral (former rue de la Monnaie)Marie lived here in 1897 (Letter from Cézanne to Solari, 30 January 1897)

home of hortense and pauL cézanne Junior- 9 Rue Frédéric Mistral (former rue de la Monnaie)On 12 February 1891, after their trip to Switzerland, Cézanne reduced the allowance of his wife and son so that they would return to Aix. As Hortense had fallen out with her in-laws, Cézanne set them up in this apartment while he lived in the Jas de Bouffan with his mother and sister.

societe des amis des arts- 2 bis Avenue Victor HugoFounded in 1894 and set up at this address in 1895, in a former garage.Cézanne held exhibitions here on three occasions:1895: The Arc Valley and Landscape (study). 1902: Meadow at Jas de Bouffan, Near Aix and Still Life. 1906: Château du Diable (Devil’s castle), otherwise known as Château Noir on the Tholonet road.

fountain of rue desBaGniersIn 1926, Ambroise Vollard gave the town a bronze medallion created by the sculptor Richard Guino, one of Maillol’s students, taken from a drawing and under Renoir’s direction.

cezanne famiLY home from 1844 to 1850- 14 Rue de la GlacièreThe registered home of Louis-Auguste Cézanne at the time of his wedding in 1844. On the marriage certificate drawn up on 10 January 1844, Louis-Auguste is mentioned as being a former hatter, proprietor, with no profession.

cafe cLement- 44 Cours Mirabeau - (Ground floor of the Gassendi hotel)In 1901, Léo Larguier and Cézanne met there: “In summer, we used to sit from time to time on the terrace of Café Clément. At the time it was the main café of Aix, frequented by officers, rich students and smart people of the town who weren’t afraid to slum it and be seen in this small establishment... Paul Cézanne seemed happy enough to be there and when he suggested going for a drink, he always used to say, “Let’s go to the Clém Caf”...People would come in and out of the café, but I don’t remember ever seeing anyone greeting the painter. Nobody seemed to know him.

apartment of his mother,madame cezanne- 30 Cours MirabeauShe lived here from 1895 onwards. From June to September 1897, Cézanne visited his mother and dined with her every evening: “He dines in the evening and spends the night with his mother, whom he cares for tenderly. She is disabled, and he takes her out in the car, and to enjoy the sunshine at the Jas. She is as slim and frail as a child, and he carries her himself in his arms which are still strong, from the car to her chair. He is constantly telling her affectionate jokes”. - She died in this house, on 25 October 1897.

church of La madeLeine- Place des PrêcheursPaul’s christening 20 February 1839.Marie’s christening on 7 July 1841. Wedding of Louis-Auguste and Elizabeth Aubert on 30 January 1844. Marriage blessing of Rose Cézanne and Maxime Conil on 27 February 1881.

2 pLace des prêcheurs Achille Emperaire’s home.

23 rue suffren Cézanne’s maternal grandmother’s home.

LocaL schooL- Rue des Epineaux1844 to 1850.Met Philippe Solari.

ecoLe saint-Joseph(Saint Joseph Catholic school)- 16 Cours Saint-Louis1850 to 1852.Met Henri Gasquet.

cafe Beaufort- On the corner of Cours Saint-Louis and Cours des Arts et MétiersMeeting point for the Aix protest artists: Ravaisou, Emperaire, Solari and Gasquet, sometimes accompanied by Cézanne.

the cézanne famiLY home from1878 to 1881, then the coniLs’ home - 20 Rue Emeric DavidAround 16 September, Madame Cézanne senior left L’Estaque and the family moved to this new address. The house, which cost 16,500 francs, was part of Rose’s dowry. Cézanne’s niece, Marthe-Anne-Marie Conil, born on 3 October 1882. / Marie-Antoinette-Paule Conil born on 3 May 1885. / Marie-Rose-Amélie Conil born on 27 December 1888. / Louis Conil born on 20 September 1892.

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in the steps of cezanne

Walking tour

From 1 April to 31 October, every Thursday from the Tourist Office at 10.00, this tour will show you the places that marked the painter’s life as well as the Cézanne gallery in the Granet museum.

in the steps of zoLa

Walking tour

Upon reservation onlyDiscover Zola’s “Plassans”

Information and reservation: Tourist Office2, Place du Général de GaulleTel: 33 (0)442 161 161

saint-sauVeur cathedraLChristening of Rose Cézanne on 5 June 1854.Cézanne’s funeral on Wednesday 24 October 1906, at 10.00.«On Sundays we used to go to church. He would dress in his best clothes. He would sit in the factory pew and listen carefully to the sermon. As soon as he got to the little cloister before the Cathedral, he would be assaulted by beggars ...He would prepare his money before leaving his room, and would dish it out in handfuls whilst walking past them. «I’m having my share of the Middle-Ages,» he would whisper to me near the font. I had seen Cézanne here, under the big painting of the Burning bush, in which Moses looks uncannily like him.» (Emile Bernard)

church of saint-Jean-Baptiste du fauBourG- Cours SextiusPaul Cézanne and Hortense Fiquet’s wedding ceremony, the day after their civil wedding, on 29 April 1886. Funeral of Louis-Auguste Cézanne on 24 October 1886, after his death on 23 October.

restaurant de La croix de maLte, rue céLonY

saint-pierre cemeterYCézanne buried on 24 October 1906.The ashes of John Rewald have lain here since 1994.

town haLLPreserves the following certificates: Birth of Paul, 19 January 1839.Birth of Marie, 4 July 1841, birth of Rose, 1 June 1854.Marriage of Louis-Auguste Cézanne and Anne-Elizabeth Aubert, 29 January 1844.Marriage of Rose Cézanne and lawyer Maxime Conil, 26 February 1881.Marriage of Paul Cézanne and Hortense Fiquet, 28 April 1886.Death of Louis-Auguste, 23 October 1886.Death of Madame Cézanne senior, 25 October 1897.Death of Paul Cézanne, 23 October 1906.

father cézanne’s Bank- 24 Rue des CordeliersThe Cézanne and Cabassol Bank, with capital of 100,000 francs, opened for business on 1 June 1848.

father cézanne’s Bank- 13 Rue Boulegon In 1856, the bank moved to this new address.Paul agreed to work here after his stay in Paris.

cézanne’s Last home- 23 Rue BoulegonIn the autumn of 1899, having sold Jas de Bouffan, Cézanne settled at this last address. He died here, after an attack of pleurisy during the night of 22 October 1906.His death was registered the following morning, 23 October, at 7.00.

cézanne famiLY homefrom 1850 to 1870-14 Rue MatheronBirth of Rose Cézanne on 1 June 1854.Cézanne spent his youth between here and Jas de Bouffan.The census of 1860 mentioned Paul Cézanne as a «clerk» living at this address.

home of Joachim Gasquet- 30 Rue Portalis (once the Rue Saint-Louis)Cézanne stayed here in 1899, while his apartment at 23 Rue Boulegon was being refurbished.

home of emiLe Bernard- 9 Rue de l’OpéraOn 4 February 1904, on his return from Egypt via Marseille, Emile Bernard visited Cézanne for the first time in Aix, where he stayed for a month and rented an apartment with Madame De S..... before moving into the ground floor of the Lauves studio.

Law facuLtY- Place de l’UniversitéFirst enrolment on 16 December 1858.Second enrolment on 19 January 1859.Third enrolment on 11 April 1859.Fourth enrolment on 7 July 1859.Fifth enrolment on 19 November 1859.On 28 November 1859, Cézanne passed the first Baccalaureate examination, but did not enrol for the new academic year in 1860, his final year, which would have enabled him to practise Law.

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the musée GranetCézanne and Aix’s Museum

Between 1857 and 1862, the young Paul Cézanne attended classes at the free drawing school in Aix, which had been established with its collection of works of art in the former priory of the Order of Malta since 1828. From 1831 the town hall collections were in turn displayed there; at the time the main purpose of these paintings, sculptures, objets d’art and archaeolo-gical artefacts was to contribute to the education of the young drawers and sculptors.

So as a pupil, during his studies Cézanne copied paintings such as ‘Le Baiser de la muse’ by Frillié, ‘Le Prisonnier de Chillon’ by Edouard Dubuffe and ‘Pêches dans un plat’ from the 17th century French school, which was often found in his still lifes.

He dreamed of painting like Mattia Preti, as he later confided to his young friend Gasquet. Despite his first personal exhibition at Vollard in 1895, after which he finally began to be recognised, the Luxembourg Museum, which was then a museum of modern art, and the city of Aix categorically refused to include works by Cézanne in their collections.

Since 1936 Granet Museum has filled this gap, and lithographs, waterco-lours and drawings have been donated to it by several donors or bought by the city of Aix. In 1984 the Musée d’Orsay gave it 8 paintings in trust that perfectly illustrated Cézanne’s studies from 1859 until around 1895. The donation made in 2007 to the museums of France by M. Meyer meant that from June 2007 it was able to display an additional oil and a watercolour. (Only the 9 oils on canvas are permanently displayed, the watercolours and drawings are only displayed for 3-month periods every 3 years, for preservation reasons)

one of the finest reGionaL museums in france

Following the success of the “Picasso Cézanne” exhibition, enjoy the permanent collections spanning the 14th to the 20th century including French, Flemish, Dutch, and Italian schools, with works by Rembrandt, Rubens, Ingres, David, Granet, the Provençal school, not to mention the Cézanne gallery. An absolute must is the exceptional donation from “Cézanne to Giacometti”, which is a panorama of 20th century art, with nineteen works by Giacometti, and paintings by Léger, Mondrian, Klee, de Staël, Morandi, Tal Coat, Picasso, etc. The museum develops a dynamic programme of temporary exhibitions, interpretations and tours, as well as educational and cultural activities.

the 9 cézannedispLaYed at Granetmuseum

- ‘Le Baiser de la Muse’ circa 1860- ‘Paysage de la campagne d’Aix-en-Provence, à la tour de

César’ circa 1862- ‘Nature morte : sucrier, poires et tasse bleue’ 1865 - 1866- ‘Femme nue au miroir’ 1866 - 1867- ‘Bethsabée’ 1885 - 1890- ‘Portrait de Madame Cézanne’ 1885-1886- ‘L’Apothéose de Delacroix’ 1890 - 1894- ‘Les Baigneuses’ circa 1895- ‘Vue prise du Jas de Bouffan’ 1875 - 1876

granet muSeum, aix-en-provence

musée GranetPlace Saint Jean de MalteTel: 33 (0)4 42 52 88 32 - Fax: 04 42 52 87 82resagranet@agglo-paysdaix.fr

www.museegranet-aixenprovence.fr

leS BaigneuSeS - circa 1895, granet muSeum, aix-en-provence

All Cézanne’s admirers are well aware that this is where you can feel the presence of the painter at its strongest. In November 1901, Cézanne bought a little country property from Joseph Bouquier surrounded by 7,000 m2 of farmland, planted with olive and fig trees and bordered by the Canal du Verdon, on the Lauves hill. When the work was completed after ten months, Cézanne wrote to his niece, Paule Conil, on 1 September 1902: “Little Marie has cleaned my studio, which is finished, and I am settling down there little by little”. Within those walls, along with his painting materials, he brought together all the objects that were dear to him, which he portrayed in his last still lifes. Every day without fail, Cézanne left his apartment in rue Boulegon to come and work in his large studio in the country. He rose very early, went to his studio in all seasons, from six o’clock until half past ten, came back for his meal in Aix, then left straight afterwards for the ‘motif’ or landscape until five o’clock in the afternoon. Dozens of works that are now kept in the great museums of the world, including his last, ‘Large Bathers’ were painted in this studio of light and silence. After the death of Cézanne in 1906, the studio remained closed for fifteen years. In 1921, Marcel Provence bought it from Cézanne’s son and occupied it until his death in 1951. In order to save it from the developers, James Lord and John Rewald, founded the ‘Cezanne Memorial Committee’ in 1952. One hundred and fourteen American donors contributed financially to this rescue operation. They bought Cézanne’s studio back and gave it to the Université d’Aix-Marseille. The Cézanne’s Studio Museum was inaugurated on 8 July 1954 and in 1969 was given to the City of Aix-en-Provence, which still owns it.

cézanne’sstudioLauves Studio

On 1 September 1902

Cézanne wrote to

his niece, Paule Conil:

Little Marie has cleaned my

studio which is now

finished and I am settling

down there little by little...

• Individuals - booking recommendedTel: 33 (0)4 42 161 161 - www.aixenprovencetourism.comGetting there: bus n° 1 from la Rotonde Poste - stop Cézanne

• Groups - booking compulsory Tel: 33 (0)4 42 16 10 08 - sites@aixenprovencetourism.com Coaches: marked parking on avenue Raymond Poincaré

• Closed 1/01, 2/01, 01/05 and 25/12Sundays in January, February and December • Approximate duration of tour 30 min

• Cézanne’s studio garden: « Déjeuners sur l’herbe »Cultural and gastronomic evenings - Booking compulsoryEvery Thursday from 1 to 29 July 2010, 19.30Tel: 33 (0)4 42 21 06 53

ateLier cézanne 9 avenue Paul Cézanne Tel : 33 (0)4 42 21 06 53 - Fax : 33 (0)4 42 21 90 34 infos@atelier-cezanne.comwww.atelier-cezanne.com - www.cezanne-en-provence.com

Dates and times for individuals only - 2010

1 October to 31 March

Open 10.00 to 12.00 and 14.00 to 17.00

Tour in English at 16.00

1 April to 30 June and

1 to 30 September

Open 10.00 to 12.00 and 14.00 to 18.00

Tour in English at 17.00

1 July to 31 AugustOpen 10.00 to 18.00

Tour in English at 17.00

HERE IS MY STUDIO;

NO ONE MAY ENTER BUT ME;

BUT AS YOU ARE A FRIEND,

WE WILL ENTER TOGETHER