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)
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FWN 402
Louis-Auguste Cezanne, père de l'artiste, lisant L'Événement
1866 autumn
Alternate titles: Bauer, Zeitung lesend; Der Leser (Bildnis des Vaters); Der Vater des Künstlers; Der Vater des Künstlers, 'L'Evènement' lesend; Father of the Artist; Homme assis, lisant; Le père de Cézanne dans le fauteuil; Le père de l'artiste; Le père de l'artiste lisant; Père de l'Artiste; Portrait de Cézanne père lisant 'L'Evénement'; Portrait de Louis-Auguste Cézanne, Père de l'artiste; Portrait de M. L. A...; Portrait de son père; Portrait du père de Cézanne; Portrait du père de l'artiste; Portrait of the artist's father; Portrait of the Artist's Father Reading "L'Evénement"; The Artist's Father; The Artist's Father, Reading "L'Événement"; The Newspaper Reader
Rewald (101): 1866 autumn; Venturi revised: 1866–67; Venturi (91): 1868–70; Rivière: 1868; Cooper: 1866 (Burlington) and 1864–65 (L'Oeil); Gowing: c 1866; Ratcliffe: 1866
Oil on canvas
78 11/16 x 47 3/16 in. (200 x 120 cm)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4452, Grand portrait d'homme (20000/40000 frs)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Société des Artistes français, Palais des Champs-Elysées, Paris, Salon de 1882, 99e exposition, May 1, 1882, no. 520, as Portrait de M. L. A...
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XII. Jahrgang, III. Ausstellung, November 17–December 12, 1909, no. 12, as Bauer, Zeitung lesend, lent by Vollard.
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Figures de Cézanne, June 27–July 23, 1910, no. 20, as Portrait du père de Cézanne, tentative identification.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 3, as Portrait du père de l'artiste, lent byM/M Lecomte; shown for the first time.
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 8, pl. IV, lent by private collection, Paris.
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. 21, 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.
Grand Palais, Paris, Impressionnisme: Les origines, 1859–1869, April 19–August 8, 1994, no. 26, fig. 264. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Origins of Impressionism, September 19, 1994–January 8, 1995.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–1885, June 26–September 12, 2005, no. 2, ill., p. 79, as Louis-Auguste Cezanne, père de l'artiste, lisant L'Événement. Traveled to: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, October 20, 2005–January 16, 2006; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, February 27–May 28, 2006 (Cézanne et Pissarro 1865-1885).
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 6, 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. 14, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 4.1, 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.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 2, ill. shown in Chicago only. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Borgmeyer, Charles Louis. The Master Impressionists. Chicago: The Fine Arts Press, 1913, p. 271, ill., as Portrait of the artist's father, Collection Pellerin.
Dreyfus, Albert. "Paul Cézanne." Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst 24, no. 9 (June 1913), p. 200, ill.
"A Private Collection in Germany That Contains Fourteen Examples of the Art of Paul Cezanne, a Great Modern, Who Already Is Placed with the Old Masters, in Darmstadt." New York Times, July 6, 1913, p. 15, as The Newspaper Reader.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 83.
Coquiot, Gustave. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Ollendorf, 1919, pp. 40-41, as Portrait de son père.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, p. 12, pl. p. 12, as Le père de Cézanne dans le fauteuil.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 88, as Der Leser (Bildnis des Vaters), 1866.
Burroughs, Alan. "Ambroise Vollard, Sensible Biographer." The Arts 4 (September 1923), p. 170, ill.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 198, listed.
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne: His Life and Art. Translated by Harold L. van Doren. New York: Nicholas Brown, 1923, ill. opposite p. 40.
Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, ill. opposite p. 117.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, p. 17, pl. [3] hors texte, as Le père de Cézanne dans le fauteuil.
Bernard, Émile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne, Une Conversation avec Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1926, 94/95.
Camoin, Charles, translated by Albert Dreyfus. "Erinnerungen an Cézanne [and] Briefe Cézannes an Ch. Camoin." Kunst und Künstler 25, no. 6 (1927), p. 212, ill., as Der Vater des Künstlers.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, pp. 18-19, fig. 4, pl. IV.
Neugass, Fritz. "Paul Cézanne: zu seinem 25. Todestag am 22. Oktober 1931." Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration 69 (October 1931–March 1932), ill. p. 139.
Guenne, Jacques. "Paul Cézanne et le drame de la peinture." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 204 (1936), ill. p. [154].
Laprade, Jacques de. "L'exposition Cézanne à l'Orangerie." Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 177 (May 22, 1936), ill. p. 2, as Le père de l'artiste lisant.
Huyghe, René. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 37 p. 166, as Portrait de Cézanne père lisant 'L'Evénement', c. 1868.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 91, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Louis-Auguste Cézanne, Père de l'artiste.
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 Portrait du père de l'artiste.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 7, p. 151, ill.
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 18.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1946, p. 127, ill.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 7, as Portrait du père de l'artiste, 1866.
Vaudoyer, Jean-Louis. Les Peintres provençaux de Nicolas Froment à Paul Cezanné. Paris: La Jeune Parque, 1947, p. 83, ill.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 18, pl. IV fig. 4, as Portrait of the artist's father.
Sargent, Winthrop. "Cézanne: The Great Paintings of a Frustrated Recluse Changed the Whole Course of Modern Art." Life 32, no. 8 (February 25, 1952), p. 88, ill.
Cooper, Douglas. "Au Jas de Bouffan." L'Oeil 2 (February 15, 1955), p. 16, ill. (this picture is confused with no. 95).
Roger-Marx, Claude. Les Impressionnistes. Paris: Hachette, 1956, p. 83, as Père de l'Artiste.
Hess, Walter. "Zum Bild des Menschen in der Kunst Cézanne." Die Kunst und das schöne Heim, no. 9 (June 1957), p. 337, ill.
Elles, Iris. Das Stilleben in der französischen Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts. Zurich: Origo Verl, 1958, p. 107.
Novotny, Fritz. Painting and Sculpture in Europe 1780 to 1880. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1960, p. 206, as The Artist's Father, Reading "L'Événement".
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 146, ill. p. 147.
Leonhard, Kurt. Paul Cézanne in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Rheinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1966, p. 119, ill.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 21.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, p. 4, fig. 4.
National Gallery of Art Annual Report (1970), p. 26, ill. p. 6.
"[Aquisitions des musées du monde entier]." La Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 1225 (February 1971), p. 94, no. 447, ill., as Le père de l'artiste.
Hours, Madeleine. "Cézanne's Portrait of His Father." Studies in the History of Art 4 (1971-1972), pp. 63–88, fig. 1, as Father of the Artist (figs. 2–11, photographs of the painting under unfrared rays, in ultraviolat flourescence, details in tangential light and X-rays).
Rewald, John. "Cézanne and His Father." Studies in the History of Art 4 (1971-1972), fig. 2, as Portrait of the Artist's Father Reading "L'Evénement".
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1975, no. 2369, p. 63, ill., as The Artist's Father.
Monneret, Sophie. Cézanne, Zola . . . La fraternité du génie. Paris: Denoël, 1978, ill. p. 11.
Monneret, Sophie. L'Impressionnisme et son époque: dictionnaire international illustré. Paris: Denoël, 1978, vol.1, ill. p. 200.
Reff, Theodore. "The Pictures within Cézanne's Pictures." Arts Magazine 53, no. 10 (June 1979), fig. 4.
Geist, Sidney. "Cézanne: Metamorphosis of the Self." Artscribe, no. 26 (December 1980), fig. 10.
Kelder, Diane. The Great Book of French Impressionism. New York: Abbeville Press, 1980, p. 397, ill.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 14.
Gache-Patin, Sylvie. "Musée d'Orsay, Galerie du Jeu de Paume: douze œuvres de Cézanne de l'ancienne collection Pellerin." La Revue du Louvre et des musées de France 34, no. 2 (1984), fig. 3 p. 130.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. "Catalogue des oeuvres de Cézanne conservées au musée Granet d'Aix-en-Provence." In Cézanne au Musée d'Aix. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1984, ill. p. 213.
House, John. Impressionist Masterpieces: National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York: Hugh Lauther Levin, 1985, p. 50, pl. 14.
Bessonova, Marina, and William Williams. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Hermitage, Leningrad, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York: Park Lane, 1986, p. 151, ill.
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. 294–97, fig. 4.
Kirsch, Robert. "Paul Cézanne: Jeune fille au piano and Some Portraits of His Wife. An Investigation of His Painting of the Late 1870's." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 110, periode 6 (July–August 1987), p. 22.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 45, ill. in color.
"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), p. 79, ill.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 15, ill.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 210, 219, fig. 105.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. "An Artistic and Political Manifesto for Cézanne." The Art Bulletin vol. LXXII, no. 3 (September 1990), fig. 2.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 84, fig. 1.
Kitschen, Friederike. Cézanne: Stilleben. Ostfildern-Ruit: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1995, fig. 7.
Cahn, Isabelle. "Cézanne portraitiste." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 41.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 78.
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. 101, ill. vol. 2 and p. 39, ill. col. vol. 1, as Louis-Auguste Cezanne, père de l'artiste, lisant L'Événement.
Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 33, fig. 25, as The Artist's Father, Reading "L'Événement".
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. 78-79.
Vischer, Bodo. "Beobachtungen zu Chardins Einfluss auf die Stillebenmalerei im 19. Jahrhundert an Beispielen von Manet, Courbet und Cézanne." In Cézanne, Picasso, Braque: Der Beginn des kubistischen Stillebens. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 1998. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 9.
Kitschen, Friederike. "Malen, Sehen, Denken, Fühlen - Cézannes Stilleben." In Cézanne Manet Schuch: drei Wege zur autonomen Kunst. Munich: Hirmer, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 2.
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 164, ill., as Louis-Auguste Cezanne, père de l'artiste, lisant L'Événement.
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. 7, 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. 31, fig. 1.12, as Louis-Auguste Cezanne, père de l'artiste, lisant L'Événement.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2004. Exhibition catalogue, p. 13, fig. 6, as The Artist's Father.
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. 4, 14, ill. in color.
Royer, Jean-Michel. "The Arbor of Weeping Chestnuts." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 139 (detail), ill. in color.
Tosini, Aurora Scotti. "Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)." In Cézanne, Renoir. Milan: Skira, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 101, ill.
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.
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. 55; vol. 2, p. 56.
Chiappini, Rudy. "Quel silenzio, in attesa del tempo della rivelazione." In Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi. Milan: Skira, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 26, fig. 8.
Mitterand, Henri. "Une fraternité d'artistes: Cézanne et Zola." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 36, fig. 10, as Louis-Auguste Cezanne, père de l'artiste, lisant L'Événement.
Fleck Robert. "Zeitung als Motiv und Malerei der Künstler." In Art and Press: Kunst, Wahrheit, Wirklichkeit. Cologne: Wienand, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 26-28, ill. p. 26, as Der Vater des Künstlers, 'L'Evènement' lesend.
Cézanne, Paul. The Letters of Paul Cézanne. Edited and translated by Alex Danchev. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson; Getty Publications, 2013, p. 130, ill.
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. 315, ill.
Leca, Benedict. "'The Painter of Apples': Cézanne, Still Life, and Self-Fashioning." In The World Is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne. Hamilton, Ontario: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 45, fig. 5, as The Artist's Father, Reading "L'Événement".
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 13, fig. 2.
Mitterand, Henri. Paul Cézanne, Émile Zola, Lettres croisées, 1858–1887. Paris: Gallimard, 2016, fig. 7.
Lobstein, Dominique. "Biographie." In Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 348, ill.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 1.
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. 4, 203 pp. 16, 209.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 218, ill., as Homme assis, lisant.
Tapié, Alain. "De la nature de l'art vers l'art de la nature." In Cezanne et les Maîtres, rêve d'Italie. Vanves: Editions Hazan, 2020. Exhibition catalogue, p. 39, fig. 4.
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 17.
Elderfield, John. "Dr. Barnes's Cézanne." In Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2021, fig. 7, as The Artist's Father, Reading "L'Événement".
Notes
This painting was the only work by Cézanne accepted at the Salon (1882). The artist kept the work (rolled up) until his death.
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Record last updated August 3, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Louis-Auguste Cezanne, père de l'artiste, lisant L'Événement, 1866 autumn (FWN 402)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=112 (accessed on October 10, 2024).
