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 410
L'Avocat (l'Oncle Dominique)
1866–67
Alternate titles: An Advocate; L'Avocat; L'Avocat (portrait de l'Oncle Dominique); L'Oncle Dominique en avocat; Portrait; Tête d'homme; Uncle Dominic as a Lawyer; Uncle Dominique; Uncle Dominique as a Lawyer
Rewald (106): c.1866; Venturi revised: c.1865; Venturi (74): 1865–67; Rivière: 1875; Cooper: c.1865
Oil on canvas
24 3/8 x 20 1/2 in. (62 x 52 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3854, avocat faisant des gestes, 65 x 54 cm (150 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 313, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Aubert 1865
Provenance
Exhibition History
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Rétrospective d'oeuvres de Cézanne, October 1–22, 1907, no. 1, as L'Avocat, lent by Pellerin.
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 5, pl. III, lent by private collection, Paris.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 23, 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. 24, p. 344, fig. 251. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Origins of Impressionism, September 19, 1994–January 8, 1995.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 6, ill. shown in Paris only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, De l'impressionnisme à l'Art nouveau: acquisitions du musée d'Orsay 1990-1996, October 16, 1996–January 5, 1997, pp. 98-99, ill., as L'Oncle Dominique en avocat, 1866.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–1885, June 26–September 12, 2005, no. 9, ill., p. 85, as L'Avocat (l'Oncle Dominique). 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).
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 7, ill. shown in Paris only.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 2.5, ill. shown in Paris only. Traveled to: National Portrait Gallery, London, October 26, 2017–February 11, 2018; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, March 25–July 1, 2018.
Published References
Faure, Elie. "Toujours Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 1, no. 8 (December 1920), ill. p. 270, as Portrait.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 202, listed.
Fry, Roger. "Le développement de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 7, no. 12 (December 1926), ill. p. 394, as Portrait.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, pp. 21-22, fig. 7, pl. V.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 74, ill. vol. II, as L'Avocat (portrait de l'Oncle Dominique).
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 21, pl. V fig. 7, as An Advocate.
Novotny, Fritz. Painting and Sculpture in Europe 1780 to 1880. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1960, p. 206, as Uncle Dominique.
Rosenberg, Jakob. On Quality in Art. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967, pl. 81.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 1.
Patin, Sylvie. "Deux 'figures' de Cézanne au musée d'Orsay." Revue du Louvre - la revue des musées de France, no. 1 (April 1992), p. 16, ill. p. 17, as L'Avocat (l'Oncle Dominique), 1866.
Cahn, Isabelle. "Cézanne portraitiste." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 42, autumn 1866.
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. 106, ill. vol. 2, as L'Avocat (l'Oncle Dominique).
Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 19, fig. 10, as Uncle Dominic as a Lawyer.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 75, fig. 2.23, as L'Avocat (l'Oncle Dominique).
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. 5, ill. in color.
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. 79b, as Uncle Dominique as a Lawyer.
Kropmanns, Peter. Cézanne: Eine Biographie. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2006, ill. between pp. 116 and 117.
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, fig. 103, ill. p. 138.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 267, pl. 124.
Callen, Anthea. The Work of Art: Plein-air Painting and Artistic Identiy in the Nineteenth-century France. London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2015, pp. 106-8, 140, 177-8, fig. 77, as Uncle Dominique, 1866.
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. 192 p. 202.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 201, ill., as Tête d'homme.
Locke, Nancy. "Picquer, Plaquer: Cézanne, Pissarro, and Palette Knife Painting." In A Companion to Impressionism, André Dombrowski, ed. Newark: John Wiley & Sons, 2021, fig. 9.3
Record last updated September 7, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Avocat (l'Oncle Dominique), 1866–67 (FWN 410)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=118 (accessed on November 11, 2024).