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 405
L'Oncle Dominique
1866–67
Alternate titles: Bildnis; Portrait (l'Oncle Dominique?)
Rewald (104): c.1866; Venturi revised: c.1865; Venturi (77): 1865–67; Rivière: 1864
Oil on canvas
15 7/8 x 12 3/8 in. (40.3 x 31.5 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3577, huile; portrait d'homme une cravate rouge et un devant de chemise blanc, 46 x 38 cm (50 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 146, Annotated by Cezanne's son : Aubert 1865
Private collection, Boston
Provenance
Private collection, Boston
Exhibition History
Bourgeois Gallery, New York, 1922.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Paul Cézanne, January 1928, no. 22, as Portrait (l'Oncle Dominique?), lent by Lewisohn.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Lewisohn Collection, November 2–December 2, 1951, no. 10, ill., p. 42.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Prized Possessions, June 17–August 16, 1992, no. 23, pl. 107.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 9, ill. shown in London only.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 2.2, 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.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Cézanne: In and Out of Time, November 11, 2020–February 8, 2021, lent by Private Collection.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Paul Cézanne Influence, March 13–October 17, 2021.
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. 84.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 85, as Bildnis, 1865.
Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, ill. opposite p. 53.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 19, as Bildnis, c. 1867.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. II.
Bourgeois, Stephan. The Adolph Lewisohn Collection of Modern French Paintings and Sculpture. New York: E. Weyhe, 1928, p. 177, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 77, ill. vol. II, as L'Oncle Dominique.
Gowing, Lawrence. Cézanne: The Early Years 1859-1872. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1988. Exhibition catalogue, listed under cat. no. 18, fig. b.
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. 104, ill. vol. 2, as L'Oncle Dominique.
Kropmanns, Peter, and Uwe Fleckner. "Von kontinentaler Bedeutung: Gottlieb Friedrich Reber und seine Sammlungen." In Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: französische Kunst in deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, edited by Andrea Pophanken and Felix Billeter. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001, listed p. 387.
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. 193 p. 203.
Record last updated June 28, 2017. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Oncle Dominique, 1866–67 (FWN 405)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=117 (accessed on December 13, 2024).
