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 398
Portrait de Louis-Auguste Cezanne, père de l'artiste
c.1865
Alternate titles: Bildnis von Cézannes Vater; Bildnis von Cézannes Vater im Jas de Bouffan; Der Vater des Künstlers mit Mütze; Le père de Cézanne en casquette; Le père de l'artiste; Portrait de Louis-Auguste Cézanne, père de l'artiste; Portrait de son père en chasseur; Portrait du père de l'artiste; Portrait of the Artist's Father; Retrato del padre del artista; The Artist's father; The Painter's Father, Louis-Auguste Cézanne
Rewald (95): c.1865; Venturi revised: c.1865; Venturi (25): 1860–63; Rivière: c.1875–76; Cooper: 1864–65; Gowing: perhaps 1863 (Burlington) and c.1862 (London)
Mural transferred to canvas
66 x 45 in. (167.6 x 114.3 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Art Center, New York, Memorial Exhibition: John Quinn Collection, January 7–30, 1926, no. 37.
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November 10–December 10, 1934, no. 1, ill., (dated 1863), as The Artist's father, lent by Pitcairn.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 1, ill. lent by Raymond Pitcairn.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 1, ill. lent by Pitcairn. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 1, ill. lent by Pitcairn.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition Cézanne: Tableaux, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 1–August 15, 1961, no. 1.
Musée Saint-Georges, Liège, Belgium, Cézanne, March 12–May 9, 1982, no. 1, ill. 1860-63. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 12–August 31, 1982 (exhibition catalogue; preface by Denis Coutagne).
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne, June 12–August 31, 1982, no. 1, ill.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 4, ill. p. 6 (p. 19 French ed.) fig. 4 photograph of the alcove in the salon of the Jas de Bouffan with Portrait de Louis-Aguste Cezanne; shown in London only. 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.
National Gallery, London, Cézanne in Britain, October 4, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 1, ill., as The Painter's Father, Louis-Auguste Cézanne.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Le décor impressionniste: aux sources des nymphéas, March 2–July 11, 2022, no. 25, ill., p. 59.
Published References
Guillaume, Paul. "Un portrait inédit de Cézanne." Les Arts à Paris, no. 2 (July 15, 1918), p. 6, ill. p. 7, as Portrait de son père en chasseur.
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Munich: Kurt Wolfe Verlag, 1921, ill. opp. p. 8, as Bildnis von Cézannes Vater im Jas de Bouffan, dated circa 1863.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, p. 11, pl. p. 10, as Le père de Cézanne en casquette.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 89, as Der Vater des Künstlers mit Mütze, 1866.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 203, listed.
Gomez de la Mata, Germán. "La eterna discusión sobre Cézanne." La Esfera (Madrid) Year XII, no. 588 (April 11, 1925), ill. n.p., as Retrato del padre del artista.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, p. 14, pl. [2] hors texte, as Le père de Cézanne en casquette.
Quinn, John. The John Quinn Collection of Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, and Sculpture. Foreword by Forbes Watson. Hunstville, NY: Pidgeon Hill Press, 1926, p. 7, ill. p. 37.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 14, as Bildnis von Cézannes Vater, c. 1863.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne: 24 phototypies. Paris: Librairie de France, [1928], [pl. 8], as Portrait du père de l'artiste.
Benson, E.M. "Enjoying Your Museum." Pennsylvania Museum of Art Bulletin 31, no. 170 (March 1936), p. 15.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 25, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Louis-Auguste Cézanne, père de l'artiste.
Goldwater, Robert J. "Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections." Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 139, ill.
Mack, Gerstle. La Vie de Paul Cézanne. Translated by Nancy Bouwens. Paris: Gallimard, 1938, ill. opposite p. 129 (as it appeared in the salon at the Jas de Bouffan).
"[Aquisitions des musées du monde entier]." La Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 1201 (February 1969), p. 98, no. 402, ill., as Le père de l'artiste.
Davies, Martin. National Gallery Catalogues. French School: Early 19th Century, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists etc. Revised by Cecil Gould. London: National Gallery, 1970, pp. 24–26, no. 6385.
Rewald, John. "Cézanne and His Father." Studies in the History of Art 4 (1971-1972), fig. 1, as Portrait of the Artist's Father.
Zilczer, Judith. "The Noble Buyer": John Quinn, Patron of the Avant-Garde. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978. Exhibition catalogue (1978 Washington, D.C.), Appendix I, p. 153.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne: The Severed Head and the Skull." Arts Magazine 58, no. 2 (October 1983), p. 88, fig. 5.
Rishel, Joseph J. Cézanne in Philadelphia Collections. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1983. Exhibition catalogue, p. XV, ill.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 55, ill. in color.
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 22, ill. in color.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 31, ill.
Kendall, Richard. The History and Techniques of the Great Master Cézanne. London: Tiger Books International, 1989, p. 7, ill.
Gasquet, Joachim. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne. Translated by C. Pemberton. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991, p. 37, ill.
Baker, Christopher, and Tom Henry. The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue. London: National Gallery Publications, 1995, p. 106, ill., as The Painter's Father, Louis-Auguste Cézanne, c. 1862.
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. 95, ill. vol. 2 and p. 44, ill. col. vol. 1, as Portrait de Louis-Auguste Cézanne, père de l'artiste.
Coutagne, Denis. "Approche contradictoire d'un thème: Le Jas de Bouffan chez Cézanne." In Cézanne aujourd'hui. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1997, pp. 77-78.
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 164, ill., as Portrait de Louis-Auguste Cézanne, père de l'artiste.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "The Path to Les Lauves: A History of Cézanne's Studios." In Atelier Cézanne, 1902–2002: Le centenaire. Aix-en-Provence: Société Paul Cézanne, 2002, fig. 4, ill. in color.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 30, fig. 1.11, as Portrait de Louis-Auguste Cézanne, père de l'artiste.
Ely, Bruno. "'Pater Omnipotens Aeterne Deus.' The purchase and sale of Jas de Bouffan by the Cézanne family." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 13, ill. in color.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "Cézanne's Paintings in the Grand Salon at Jas de Bouffan." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 45, ill. in color.
Pissarro, Joachim. Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–85. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 18, fig. 9.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Motive: Versuch einer neuen Ordnung." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 203, ill.
Conisbee, Philip. "Cézanne's Provence." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 8, fig. 6, as Portrait de Louis-Auguste Cézanne, père de l'artiste.
Verdi, Richard. "Cézanne in Britain, London." The Burlington Magazine 149, no. 1246 (January 2007), p. 54 mentioned, as Portrait of the Artist's Father.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 337, pl. 158.
Nagaï, Takanori. "Cézanne and Jas de Bouffan." In Le "basho" dans l'art moderne français. Tokyo: Sangensha, 2016, p. 112, ill.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. London and Princeton, N,J.: National Portrait Gallery Publications and Princeton University Press, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 19.
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, figs. 25, 228 pp. 44, 243 (figs. 226, 227 digital reconstitutions of the Jas de Bouffan's Grand Salon before and after 1867 pp. 242-243).
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 3.
Notes
This portrait of Cézanne's father was painted on the wall of the salon at the Jas de Bouffan, flanked by Les Quatres Saisons, two on each side (Les Quatre Saisons: Le Printemps, 1860–61 (561), Les Quatre Saisons: L'Été, 1860–61 (562), Les Quatre Saisons: L'Hiver, 1860–61 (563) and Les Quatre Saisons: L'Automne, 1860–61 (564)).
The salon of the Jas de Bouffan with Cézanne's murals still in place, circa 1900.
John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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Record last updated May 5, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de Louis-Auguste Cezanne, père de l'artiste, c.1865 (FWN 398), Mural transferred to canvas." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=108 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
