The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
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FWN 399
Portrait d'Antony Valabrègue
1866, Spring
Alternate titles: Antony Valabrègue; Homme assis (Antony Valabrègue); Portrait; Portrait de Antoine Valabrègue; Portrait de M. Albin Valabrègue; Portrait de Valabrègue; Portrait of a Man; Portrait: Valabrègue; Porträt des Herrn Valabrègue; Porträt Valabrègue
Rewald (94): 1866, Spring; Venturi revised: 1865–66; Venturi (126): c.1868; Rivière: 1870; Cooper: 1865–66; Gowing: c.1866; Ratcliffe: probably 1866
Oil on canvas
45 11/16 x 38 5/8 in. (116 x 98 cm)
Signed lower right in red, overlaid in black: P. Cezanne
Vollard A stockbook: no. 4164, portrait de Valabrègue, 115 x 95 cm
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4062, Portrait de Valabrègue, 115 x 95 cm (2200 frs)
Provenance
Private collection, Switzerland
Exhibition History
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Sonderausstellung Paul Cézanne, April 22–June 15, 1904, no number, as Porträt Valabrègue.
Galerie Miethke, Dorotheergasse 11 and Graben 17, Vienna, [Französische Kunst der Gegenwart (Gauguin-Ausstellung)], March 15–April 28, 1907, no. 93, as Portrait, lent by Vollard.
Nemzeti Salon, Budapest, Hungary, Gauguin, Cézanne, et al, May 1907, no. 78, as Portrait of a Man, lent by Vollard.
S.V.U. Mánes, Pavillon Mánes, Prague, Francouzští impressionisté [French Impressionists], September 27–November 30, 1907, no. 53.
Munich, Frühjahr-Ausstellung der Münchener Sezession, Spring 1909, no. 19, as Porträt des Herrn Valabrègue, lent by Vollard.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XII. Jahrgang, III. Ausstellung, November 17–December 12, 1909, no. 9, as Portrait: Valabrègue, lent by Vollard; tentative identification.
Public Art Galleries, Brighton, United Kingdom, Modern French Artists, June 10–August 31, 1910, no. 184, as Portrait de M. Albin Valabrègue, lent by Vollard, valued at 15,000 Fr.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Honderd jaar Fransche kunst, July 2–September 25, 1938, no. 3, as Portrait d'Antony Valabrègue, lent by Pellerin.
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 7, lent by Pellerin.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 6, lent by Pellerin.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 2, ill. lent by Wildenstein.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 7, lent by Wildenstein. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Palais de Beaulieu, Lausanne, Switzerland, Chefs-d'œuvre des collections suisses: de Manet à Picasso, May 1–October 25, 1964, no. 85, ill., as Portrait d'Antony Valabrègue, c. 1871, lent by Private collection, Zurich.
Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Paul Cézanne, March 9–April 1984, no. 3, ill.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Gifts to the Nation: Selected Acquisitions from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, July 20–October 17, 1986.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 16, ill. Traveled to: Musée d'Orsay, Cézanne: les années de jeunesse 1859-1872, Paris, September 19, 1988–January 1, 1989; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., January 29–April 30, 1989.
The Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, Faces of Impressionism, Portraits from American Collections, October 10, 1999–January 30, 2000, no. 13, ill. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 25–May 7, 2000; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, May 28–July 30, 2000.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 10, ill. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 12, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 3.1, 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.
Wallraf-Riichartz Museum, Cologne, Paris 1863–1874, Revolution in der Kunst, Vom Salon zum Impressionismus, March 15–July 28, 2024, no. 45, ill., p. 209, catalogue comments by Peter Kropmanns.
Published References
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 199, listed.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 126, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Valabrègue.
Barr, Jr., Alfred H. "Cézanne, d'après les lettres de Marion à Morstatt (1865-1868)." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 17, periode 6 (January 1937), fig. 3 p. 43, as Portrait de Valabrègue, collection J.-V. Pellerin.
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 ...c'est grandeur du cadre du Valabrégue ...
Scholari, Margaret, and Alfred Barr. "Cézanne in the Letters of Marion to Morstatt, 1865–68." Magazine of Art 31, no. 2 (February 1938), pp. 84–89; no. 4 (April 1938), p. 220, fig. 8.
Vollard, Ambroise. En écoutant Cézanne, Degas, Renoir. Paris: B. Grasset, 1938, p. 20, as Portrait de Valabrègue.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 10, ill. p. 152 (analysis pp. 311–12).
"Le centenaire de Cézanne à Lyon." Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 331 (May 5, 1939), ill. p. 3, as Portrait de Valabrègue.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1946, p. 120, ill.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 138, ill. (with a detailed account of the jury's refusal).
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, p. 5, fig. 5.
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1975, no. 2542, p. 63, ill., as Antony Valabrègue.
Monneret, Sophie. L'Impressionnisme et son époque: dictionnaire international illustré. Paris: Denoël, 1978, vol. 3, ill. p.10.
Rewald, John. "Paintings by Paul Cézanne in the Mellon Collection." In Essays in Honor of Paul Mellon, Collector and Benefactor, edited by John Wilmerding. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1986, pp. 290–94, fig. 1.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 92, fig. 1.
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. 94, ill. vol. 2 and p. 42, ill. col, vol. 1, as Portrait d'Antony Valabrègue.
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 43, ill., as Portrait d'Antony Valabrègue.
Pissarro, Joachim. Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–85. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 37, fig. 25.
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. 234, ill.
Riley, Bridget. "Cézanne in Provence." The Burlington Magazine 148, no. 1242 (September 2006), pp. 622-23, fig. 46, as Antony Valabrègue.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 53; vol. 2, p. 55, as Portrait d'Antony Valabrègue.
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 12, fig. 3.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Les portraits de grand format." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 127, fig. 60, as Portrait de Antoine Valabrègue.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Paul Cézanne, 22. April bis 15. Juni 1904." Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1901-1905. vol. 2, "Man steht da und staunt". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2011, p. 503, ill.
Dombrowski, André. Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, p. 104, fig. 41.
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. 297, ill.
Guégan, Stéphane. "Bienheureux Cézanne, Retour sur les années 1860." In Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 51, fig. 4.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 52.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 212, ill., as Homme assis (Antony Valabrègue).
Smith, Paul. "Vermilion, or why Cézanne took the shine off things." Word & Image 36, nio. 1 (2020), p. 65, fig. 1.
Record last updated July 6, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait d'Antony Valabrègue, 1866, Spring (FWN 399)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=107 (accessed on December 13, 2024).
