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Catalogue entry

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

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Auguste Pellerin, Paris
Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Lausanne
Moderne Galerie [Heinrich Thannhauser], Munich
Galerie Thannhauser, Lucerne (Sept. 27, 1921)
Stephan Bourgeois Gallery, New York (Oct. 5, 1921)
Adolph Lewisohn, New York;
Samuel A. Lewisohn, New York;
Private collection, Boston
Exhibition History
1922 New York
Bourgeois Gallery, New York, 1922.
1928d New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Paul Cézanne, January 1928, no. 22, as Portrait (l'Oncle Dominique?), lent by Lewisohn.
1951c New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Lewisohn Collection, November 2–December 2, 1951, no. 10, ill., p. 42.
1992a Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Prized Possessions, June 17–August 16, 1992, no. 23, pl. 107.
2017 Paris
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 9, ill. shown in London only.
2017–18 Paris and traveling
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.
2020–21 Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Cézanne: In and Out of Time, November 11, 2020–February 8, 2021, lent by Private Collection.
2021 Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Paul Cézanne Influence, March 13–October 17, 2021.
Published References
Meier-Graefe 1913
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1913, ill. p. 55.
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 46.
Meier-Graefe 1918a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 84.
McBride 1922
McBride, Henry. [no title]. New York Times, March 5, 1922, p. 8.
Meier-Graefe 1922
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 1925
Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, ill. opposite p. 53.
Watson 1926d
Watson, Forbes. "The Adolph Lewisohn Collection." The Arts 10 (July 1926), p. 16, ill.
Pfister 1927
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 19, as Bildnis, c. 1867.
Meier-Graefe 1927a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. II.
Bourgeois 1928
Bourgeois, Stephan. The Adolph Lewisohn Collection of Modern French Paintings and Sculpture. New York: E. Weyhe, 1928, p. 177, ill.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 77, ill. vol. II, as L'Oncle Dominique.
Badt 1956
Badt, Kurt. Die Kunst Cézannes. Munich: Prestel, 1956, pl. 42.
Gowing 1988
Gowing, Lawrence. Cézanne: The Early Years 1859-1872. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1988. Exhibition catalogue, listed under cat. no. 18, fig. b.
Rewald 1996
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 and Fleckner 2001
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.
Société Paul Cezanne 2019
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 April 25, 2024).