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 411
Portrait d'un moine (l'Oncle Dominique)
1866–67
Alternate titles: Bildnes eines Jugendfreundes als Mönch; Der Mönch; Dominique Aubert, the Artist's Uncle, as a Monk; Le Dominicain; Onkel Dominic als Mönch; Onkel Dominique; Portrait d'un jeune homme en costume de moine; Portrait de l'oncle Dominique en costume de moine; Portrait de l'oncle Dominique en moine; Portrait de moine; Portrait of Uncle Dominique as a Monk; Uncle Dominic; Uncle Dominic in Monk's Dress; Uncle Dominique
Rewald (108): c.1866; Venturi revised: c.1865; Venturi (72): 1865–67; Rivière: 1864
Oil on canvas
25 1/2 x 21 1/4 in. (64.8 x 54 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Dresden, Germany, Internationale Kunstausstellung, May–September 30, 1926, no. 78, ill.
Hugo Perls, Berlin, Französische Malerei des XIX. Jahrhunderts, Zweite Ausstellung, January–February 1927, no. 6, as Onkel Dominique.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Sammlung Oscar Schmitz: Französische Malerei des XIX. Jahrhunderts, January 14–February 14, 1932, no. 27, as Le Dominicain.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Sammlung Oscar Schmitz, Dresden-Zürich; Französische Impressionisten aus verschiedenem Besitz, January 14–February 14, 1932, no. 39, as Le Dominicain.
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Französische Maler des XIX. Jahrhunderts, May 14–August 6, 1933, no. 77, pl. XII, as Der Mönch, c. 1865, [lent by Schmitz].
Wildenstein Galleries, Paris, La Collection Oskar Schmitz, 1936, no. 7, ill.
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 4, pl. II, lent by Wildenstein.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 2, ill. lent by Wildenstein.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1958, no. 20, as Uncle Dominic, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Ira Haupt.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Masterpieces of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Painting, April 25–May 24, 1959, listed p. 26, ill., as Uncle Dominic in Monk's Dress, 1865-1867, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Ira Haupt.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection, May 21–September 17, 1989, n.n., ill., pp. 70–73, ill., as Portrait of Uncle Dominique as a Monk, c. 1866. Traveled to: National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C, May 6–August 5, 1990; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, August 16–November 15, 1990; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 4–October 13, 1991.
Published References
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 85.
Scheffler, Karl. "Die Sammlung Oskar Schmitz in Dresden." Kunst und Künstler 19, no. 5 (1921), p. 188, ill. p. 185.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 84, as Bildnes eines Jugendfreundes als Mönch, c. 1864.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 196, listed, as Portrait d'un jeune homme en costume de moine.
Dormoy, Marie. "La collection Schmitz à Dresde." L'Amour de l'art 7, no. 10 (October 1926), pp. 341-42, ill. p. 340, as Le Dominicain.
Schürer, Oskar. "Internationale Kunstausstellung Dresden, III." Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration 59 (October 1926-March 1927), p. 271, as Der Mönch.
Waldmann, Emil. Die Kunst des Realismus und des Impressionismus. Berlin: Propyläen-Verlag, 1927, p. 493, ill.
Waldmann, Emil. "La Collection Schmitz: L'art français." Documents 6 (1930), p. 320, ill.
Ors, Eugenio d.' "Crise de Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 15, periode 6 (June 1936), p. 370, fig. 7, as Le Dominicain.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 72, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de moine.
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. 56, as Portrait de l'oncle Dominique en costume de moine.
"Prophetic Cézanne Acquired by the Frick." Art Digest 14, no. 15 (May 1, 1940), p. 9, ill.
"The Frick Portrait of Uncle Dominic as a Monk." Art Quarterly 3, no. 2 (1940), pp. 221, 230, 232.
Comstock, Helen. "Cézanne Portrait of Uncle Dominic for the Frick Collection." Connoisseur 106 (November 1940), pp. 209–10.
"Cézanne for the Frick: Uncle Dominic as a Monk." ARTNews 38, no. 29 (April 20, 1940), p. 18, ill. on cover.
"New York, Commentary by Bryan Holme." The Studio (New York) 120, 568 (July), p. 28, ill., as Uncle Dominic.
Shoolman, Regina, and Charles Slatkin. The Enjoyment of Art in America. Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott, 1942, pl. 560.
Jewell, Edward Alden. French Impressionists and Their Contemporaries. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944, p. 130, ill.
The Frick Collection: Paintings. New York: The Frick Collection, 1945, p. 13, no. 144.
Venturi, Lionello. Impressionists and Symbolists: Manet, Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Scribner, 1950, pp. 120–21, 126, fig. 117.
Hofmann, Werner. Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). Munich, Vienna, Basel: Kurt Desch, 1953, pl. 9, as Onkel Dominic als Mönch, c. 1866.
Rousseau, Théodore, Jr. Paul Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1953, pl. 9.
Arnheim, Rudolf. Art and Visual Perception. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1954, p. 59.
Venturi, Lionello. Four Steps toward Modern Art: Giorgione, Caravaggio, Manet, Cézanne. New York: Columbia University Press, 1956, fig. 25.
Novotny, Fritz. Painting and Sculpture in Europe 1780 to 1880. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1960, p. 206, as Uncle Dominique.
Arnason, H. Harvard. History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1968, p. 44, fig. 42.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 27.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 1, with comments.
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 26, ill. in color.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 14.
Gowing, Lawrence. Cézanne: The Early Years 1859-1872. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1988. Exhibition catalogue, listed under cat. no. 18, fig. a.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 51, ill.
Coignard, Jérôme. "Le Salon de peinture de Mr. and Mrs. Annenberg." Beaux-arts magazine (Paris) 92 (July - August 1991), p. 64, ill., as Portrait de l'oncle Dominique en moine.
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. 108, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait d'un moine (l'Oncle Dominique).
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. 5, 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. 74, fig. 2.22, as Portrait d'un moine (l'Oncle Dominique).
Brettell, Richard, and Stephen Eisenmann. Nineteenth-Century Art in the Norton Simon Museum. New Haven: Norton Simon Foundation with Yale University Press, 2006, p. 294, fig. 79a, as Dominique Aubert, the Artist's Uncle, as a Monk.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection - New Edition. Stein, Susan Alyson and Asher Ethan Miller. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009, no. 26, ill.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 67, fig. 26.
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. 24.
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, fig. 199 p. 205.
Nagaï, Takanori. Truth in Panting: The Meaning of Cezanne's Practices for Modernizing Society. Tokyo: Sangesha Publishers Inc., 2022, pl. 14.
Record last updated December 17, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait d'un moine (l'Oncle Dominique), 1866–67 (FWN 411)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=115 (accessed on April 27, 2025).
