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 403
Portrait de l'artiste
c.1866
Alternate titles: Bildnis Cézannes; Head of a Bearded Man (self-portrait); Portrait d'homme barbu; Portrait de Cézanne; Portrait présumé de Zola; Selbstbildnis; Selbstporträt; Self-portrait; Self-Portrait (Portrait de l'artiste); Tête d'homme
Rewald (116): c.1866; Venturi revised: c.1865; Venturi (81): 1865–66; Rivière: 1864 and c.1868; Vollard: 1864; Cooper: c.1864–65; Gowing: (London) c.1866
Oil on canvas
17 11/16 x 16 1/8 in. (45 x 41 cm)
Signed lower right in red: P. CEZANNE
Vollard archives: photo no. 315, Annotated by Cezanne's son: circa 1865
Private collection, New York
Provenance
Exhibition History
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 2, as Tête d'homme, lent by M/M René Lecomte; shown for the first time.
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 4, lent by private collection, Paris.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 15, ill. shown in Paris only. 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.
Published References
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1913, pl. 66, as Selbstporträt.
Westheim, Paul. Die Welt als Vorstellung. Potsdam–Berlin: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1918, p. 121, ill.
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Munich: Kurt Wolfe Verlag, 1921, ill. opp. p. 25, as Bildnis Cézannes, dated 1864.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 82, as Selbstbildnis, 1864.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, pp. 196, 198, listed.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Cézanne." In Entwicklungsgeschichte der modernen Kunst vol. 3. Munich: R. Piper & Co., [1924] (copyright 1915), pl. 486, as Selbstbildnis, 1864.
Ruckstull, Fred Wellington. Great Works of Art and What Makes Them Great. New York: Garden City Publishing Co., 1925, pp. 23–25, fig. 14.
Fry, Roger. "Le développement de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 7, no. 12 (December 1926), ill. p. 393, as Tête d'homme.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 16, as Self-portrait, 1864.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, pp. 21 and 56, fig. 6, pl. I.
Laprade, Jacques de. "L'exposition Cézanne à l'Orangerie." Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 177 (May 22, 1936), ill. p. 2, as Portrait de Cézanne.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 81, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Cézanne.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, p. 149, no. 6, ill.
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 11.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1946, p. 125, ill.
Jedlicka, Gotthard. Cézanne. Berne: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1948, fig. 1, as Portrait de l'artiste.
Adhémar, Jean. Emile Zola. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1952. Exhibition catalogue, no. 51, as Portrait présumé de Zola, dated 1863–65; phototograph shown in exhibition.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 21, pl. I fig. 6, as Head of a Bearded Man (self-portrait).
Adhémar, Jean. "Le cabinet de travail de Zola." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 56, periode 6 (November 1960), pp. 293 et 294 (no. 132).
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 146, ill.
Leonhard, Kurt. Paul Cézanne in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Rheinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1966, p. 101, ill.
Gordon, Donald E. "The Expressionist Cézanne." Artforum 16, no. 7 (March 1978), p. 37, ill.
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. 116, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de l'artiste.
Coutagne, Denis. "Approche contradictoire d'un thème: Le Jas de Bouffan chez Cézanne." In Cézanne aujourd'hui. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1997, p. 79.
Kitschen, Friederike. "Cézannes Hüte - zu einigen Selbstporträts von Paul Cézanne." Pantheon, Internationale Jahreszeitschrift für Kunst 66 (1998), ill., p. 121.
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, pp. 46-47, 195, fig. 3, as Portrait de l'artiste.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 170, fig. 1.2, as Portrait de l'artiste.
Rubin, James. "Amitiés et théories: Courbet/Proudhon, Cézanne/Zola ou comment Cézanne connu Courbet." In Courbet/Cézanne, La vérité en peinture. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 57, fig. 8.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. "Cézanne in the Studio." In The World Is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne. Hamilton, Ontario: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 229, fig. 20, as Self-Portrait (Portrait de l'artiste).
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 53, fig. 22.
Nagaï, Takanori. "How Paul Cézanne Rejected the Fini Concept." Kyoto Studies in Art History vol. 2 (2017), p. 143, fig. 10.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 221, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste.
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. "Portrait de l'artiste, c.1866 (FWN 403)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=127 (accessed on November 7, 2024).