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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)
Catalogue entry
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
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Auguste Pellerin, Paris;
M. et Mme René Lecomte, Paris (1929);
Mme Louis de Chaisemartin, Neuilly
Musée d'Orsay, Paris (1991)
Exhibition History
1907a Paris
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Rétrospective d'oeuvres de Cézanne, October 1–22, 1907, no. 1, as L'Avocat, lent by Pellerin.1954 Paris
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 5, pl. III, lent by private collection, Paris.1988–89a London and traveling
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, 1989.1994–95 Paris and traveling
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, 1995.1995–96 Paris and traveling
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, 1996.1996–97 Paris
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, 1866.2005–06 New York and traveling
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).2017 Paris
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 7, ill. shown in Paris only.2017–18 Paris and traveling
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 1920
Faure, Elie. "Toujours Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 1, no. 8 (December 1920), ill. p. 270, as Portrait.Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 202, listed.Fry 1926
Fry, Roger. "Le développement de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 7, no. 12 (December 1926), ill. p. 394, as Portrait.Fry 1927a
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, pp. 21-22, fig. 7, pl. V.Raynal 1936
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. LIX p. 91.Venturi 1936b
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 1952
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 21, pl. V fig. 7, as An Advocate.Novotny 1960
Novotny, Fritz. Painting and Sculpture in Europe 1780 to 1880. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1960, p. 206, as Uncle Dominique.Beucken 1962
Beucken, Jean de. Cézanne. New York: Viking Press, 1962, p. 37, ill.Rosenberg 1967
Rosenberg, Jakob. On Quality in Art. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967, pl. 81.Schapiro 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 1.Patin 1992
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 1995b
Cahn, Isabelle. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 1995, p. 48, ill.Cahn 1995c
Cahn, Isabelle. "Cézanne portraitiste." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 42, autumn 1866.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. 106, ill. vol. 2, as L'Avocat (l'Oncle Dominique).Smith 1996
Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 19, fig. 10, as Uncle Dominic as a Lawyer.Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 56, fig. 29.Athanassoglou-Kallmyer 2003
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 2004
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 and Eisenmann 2006
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 2006
Kropmanns, Peter. Cézanne: Eine Biographie. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2006, ill. between pp. 116 and 117.The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2009
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 2013
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 267, pl. 124.Callen 2015
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.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. 192 p. 202.Dauberville 2020
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.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 April 18, 2024).
