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 423
Portrait du peintre Achille Emperaire
1867–68
Alternate titles: Achille Emperaire; Achille Emperaire peintre; Bildnis Emperaires; Homme assis, Achille Emperaire; L'Homme infirme; Le Malade; Portrait d'Achille Emperaire; Portrait d'Emperaire; Portrait of Achille Emperaire
Rewald (139): 1867–68; Venturi revised: c.1868; Venturi (88): 1867–70; Rivière: 1868; Cooper: 1866 or later; Gowing: 1868 (Burlington) and c.1868–70 (London); Ratcliffe: before winter 1868
Oil on canvas
78 11/16 x 48 in. (200 x 122 cm)
Signed lower right in black: P. Cezanne and inscribed at top: ACHILLE EMPERAIRE PEINTRE
Provenance
Exhibition History
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Rétrospective d'oeuvres de Cézanne, October 1–22, 1907, no. 45, as Portrait d'Emperaire, lent by M.E. Boch.
Orangerie, Paris, Monticelli et le baroque provençal, June 19–September 15, 1953, no. 10, pl. XXIX, c. 1867-1870, lent by Private collection, Paris.
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 13, lent by private collection, Paris.
Orangerie, Paris, Vingt ans d'acquisitions au musée du Louvre 1947-1967, December 1967–March 1968, no. 402, as Achille Emperaire.
Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne dans les musées nationaux, July 19–October 14, 1974, extended until October 28, no. 4, ill. in b/w, as Portrait d'Achille Emperaire.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 46, 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, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 19, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 15, ill. shown in Paris only.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 4.2, 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.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Orsay par Julian Schabel, October 10, 2018–January 13, 2021, no. 15, ill., as Achille Emperaire.
Published References
Aurier, Albert. "Choses d'art." Mercure de France 2 (June 1891), p. 374, mentioned, as seen at Tanguy's.
Leclerq, Julien. "Petites expositions: Galerie Vollard." La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 36 (November 25, 1899), p. 330, as Le Malade, also as L'Homme infirme, as the painting was known at Tanguy's.
Bernard, Emile. "Julien Tanguy, dit le 'Père Tanguy.'" Mercure de France, no. 276 (December 16, 1908), p. 609.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 82.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, p. 26, pl. p. 26, as Achille Emperaire.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 90, as Bildnis Emperaires, 1866.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 198, listed.
Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, pp. 50–51.
Fry, Roger. "Le développement de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 7, no. 12 (December 1926), ill. p. 392, as Portrait d'Achille Emperaire.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, p. 39 pl. [7] hors texte, as Achille Emperaire.
Waldmann, Emil. Die Kunst des Realismus und des Impressionismus. Berlin: Propyläen-Verlag, 1927, p. 491, ill.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, pp. 19-20, fig. 5, pl. IV.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. I.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 17, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 88, ill. vol. II, as Portrait d'Achille Emperaire.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 54, as ...grandes toiles ...
Vollard, Ambroise. En écoutant Cézanne, Degas, Renoir. Paris: B. Grasset, 1938, p. 23, as Achille Emperaire.
Rewald, John. "Achille Emperaire: ami de Paul Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 19, no. 4 (May 1938), ill. p. 152, as Portrait d'Achille Emperaire, c. 1866.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 9, ill. p. 150.
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 17.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 17, ill.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 6, as Portrait d'Achille Emperaire, 1866-68.
Jedlicka, Gotthard. Cézanne. Berne: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1948, fig. 4, as Portrait du peintre Achille Emperaire.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 20, pl. IV fig. 5, as Portrait of Achille Emperaire.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, pp. 246–47, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle. Olten and Lausanne: Urs Graf, 1962, vol. 1, p. 54, fig. 23.
Leonhard, Kurt. Paul Cézanne in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Rheinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1966, p. 68, ill.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 28.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, p. 6, fig. 6.
Adhémar, Hélène, and Anne Dayez. Musée du Jeu de Paume. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1973, listed p. 140, ill. p. 17, as Achille Emperaire, c. 1868-70.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 10, ill.
Adriani, Götz. Paul Cézanne. Zeichnungen. Cologne: DuMont, 1978. Exhibition catalogue, p. 41, ill. p. 40, as Achille Emperaire.
Monneret, Sophie. Cézanne, Zola . . . La fraternité du génie. Paris: Denoël, 1978, ill. p. 79.
Monneret, Sophie. L'Impressionnisme et son époque: dictionnaire international illustré. Paris: Denoël, 1978, vol.1, ill. p. 194.
MaryAnne Stevens. "Innovation and Consolidation in French Painting." Post-Impressionism. London, 1979. Exhibition catalogue, p. 21, ill., as Portrait of Achille Emperaire.
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 30, ill. in color.
Wetzel, Christoph. Paul Cézanne: Leben u. Werk. Stuttgart/Zurich: Belser, 1984, p. 18, ill. in color.
Compin, Isabelle et Anne Roquebert. Catalogue sommaire illustré des peintures du musée du Louvre et du musée d'Orsay. 3, École Française, A-K. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1986, p. 115, ill., as Achille Emperaire, c. 1868.
Laclotte, Michel, Genviève Lacambre, Anne Distel, et al. La Peinture au Musée d'Orsay. Paris: Editions Scala, 1986, p. 90, ill.
Thomas, Denis. The Age of the Impressionists. Middlesex, U.K.: Holiday House, 1987, p. 156, ill.
Kirsch, Robert. "Paul Cézanne: Jeune fille au piano and Some Portraits of His Wife. An Investigation of His Painting of the Late 1870's." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 110, periode 6 (July–August 1987), p. 22.
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 30, ill. in color.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 46, ill.
Ely, Bruno. "L'Un était sculpteur, l'autre peintre." Impressions du Musée Granet 3 (September 1989), p. 11, ill.
Kendall, Richard. The History and Techniques of the Great Master Cézanne. London: Tiger Books International, 1989, p. 19, ill.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. "An Artistic and Political Manifesto for Cézanne." The Art Bulletin vol. LXXII, no. 3 (September 1990), fig. 1.
Gasquet, Joachim. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne. Translated by C. Pemberton. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991, p. 61, ill.
Hommage à Anna et Eugène Boch. Pontoise: Musée de Pontoise, 1194. Exhibition catalogue, p. 71, as Portrait d'Achille Emperaire, 1868.
Cahn, Isabelle. "Cézanne portraitiste." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 43, 1869-70.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 78.
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. 139, ill. vol. 2 and p. 38, ill. col. vol. 1, as Portrait du peintre Achille Emperaire.
Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 18, fig. 9, as Portrait of Achille Emperaire.
Shiff, Richard. "Sensation, Movement, Cézanne." In Classic Cézanne. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998. Exhibition catalogue, p. 15, fig. 1.
House, John. "Impressionism and the Modern Portrait." In Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections. New York: Rizzoli, 1999. Exhibition catalogue, p. 23, fig. 10.
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 62, ill., as Portrait du peintre Achille Emperaire.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 83, fig. 2.31, as Portrait du peintre Achille Emperaire.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "Cézanne's Paintings in the Grand Salon at Jas de Bouffan." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 68b, ill. in color.
Tosini, Aurora Scotti. "Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)." In Cézanne, Renoir. Milan: Skira, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 46, ill.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Gemälde: Formate und Themen, Echtheitsfragen." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 234, ill.
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. Études cézanniennes. Paris: Flammarion, 2006, p. 20, fig. 5, as Achille Emperaire peintre, dated c. 1868-70.
Coutagne, Denis. "The Jas de Bouffan." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 82, fig. 9, as Portrait du peintre Achille Emperaire.
D'Souza, Aruna. Cézanne's Bathers. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008, fig. 59, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 56; vol. 2, p. 57, as Portrait du peintre Achille Emperaire.
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, p. 42, fig. 20, as Portrait du peintre Achille Emperaire, dated c. 1868-70.
Assante di Panzillo, Maryline. "Salons, marchands et collectionneurs." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 175, fig. 92, as Portrait du peintre Achille Emperaire.
Shiff, Richard. "Sensation, Cézanne." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 36, fig. 9, as Portrait of Achille Emperaire.
Cézanne, Paul. The Letters of Paul Cézanne. Edited and translated by Alex Danchev. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson; Getty Publications, 2013, p. 141, ill.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 99, pl. 21.
Dombrowski, André. Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, p. 41, fig. 18.
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. 52, fig. 5.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 115, fig. 69, dated c. 1869–70.
Morehead, Allison. Nature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form. University Park, Pennsylvania: the Pennsylvania State university press, 2017, p. 59, fig. 29 (fig. 30: Stock's caricature).
Lobstein, Dominique. "Biographie." In Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 353, ill.
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, figs. 6, 59 (detail), pp. 16, 75.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 217, ill., as Homme assis, Achille Emperaire.
Notes
The chair is the same one used in the large portrait of Cézanne's father (Louis-Auguste Cezanne, père de l'artiste, lisant L'Événement, 1866 autumn (402)), indicating that it was painted at the Jas de Bouffan The painting was submitted to the Salon of 1870 and rejected; it appeared in a caricature by Stock. Eugène Boch bought the portrait in 1891 from père Tanguy for 800 francs on the advice of Emile Bernard.
Caricature by Stock
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait du peintre Achille Emperaire, 1867–68 (FWN 423)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=149 (accessed on July 11, 2025).
