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Catalogue entry

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)

Keywords

Provenance
Jas de Bouffan, Aix-en-Provence
Louis Granel, Aix-en-Provence;
Dr. Frédéric Corsy, Aix-en-Provence
French Art Galleries, New York
Lady Robert Abdy, England;
Sotheby's, London, June 28, 1972, no. 15, ill.
Kunio Fukumoto, Tokyo;
Private collection, Japan;
Christie's, New York, Nov. 6, 2002, no. 15, ill.
Exhibition History
1912 Aix-en-Provence
Galerie Audin, Aix-en-Provence, France, [Exposition rétrospective réunissant des œuvres de Loubon, Monticelli, Du Veyrier ... et Turner], May 11–25, 1912.
1936c Paris
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 85, ill. vol. II, as Portrait d'Achille Emperaire .
Barnes and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 28, p. 166, ill.
Cooper 1955a
Cooper, Douglas. "Au Jas de Bouffan." L'Oeil 2 (February 15, 1955), p. 46.
Fry 1972
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 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. 141, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait d'Achille Emperaire .
Lewis 2004
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.
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, 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 March 28, 2024).