The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
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FWN 421
Portrait d'Achille Emperaire
1867–68
Alternate title: Portrait d'Emperaire
Rewald (141): 1867–68; Venturi revised: c.1868; Venturi (85): 1864–69; Cooper: 1866
Mural transferred to canvas
16 1/2 x 15 11/16 in. (42 x 40 cm)
Provenance
Private collection, Japan;
Exhibition History
Galerie Audin, Aix-en-Provence, France, [Exposition rétrospective réunissant des œuvres de Loubon, Monticelli, Du Veyrier ... et Turner], May 11–25, 1912.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 6, as Portrait d'Emperaire, lent by Dr. Frédéric. Corsy.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 85, ill. vol. II, as Portrait d'Achille Emperaire .
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 28, p. 166, ill.
Fry, Roger. Letters of Roger Fry. London: Chatto and Windus, 1972, pp. 473–74, no. 469, mentioned in letter to Vanessa Bell, November 30, 1919.
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. 141, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait d'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. 67, ill. in color.
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. 55, 229 pp. 72, 245 (fig. 227 digital reconstitutions of the Jas de Bouffan's Grand Salon after 1867 p. 243).
Notes
Painted on the wall of the salon at the Jas de Bouffan and subsequently detached and transferred to canvas.
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Record last updated February 22, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait d'Achille Emperaire, 1867–68 (FWN 421), Mural transferred to canvas." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=150 (accessed on January 18, 2025).
