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 425
Portrait d'Antony Valabrègue
1869–70
Alternate titles: Bildnis des Antony Valabregue; Petit Portrait de Valabrègue; Portrait d'Antoine Valabrègue; Portrait d'homme; Portrait d'homme, Antony Valabrègue; Portrait de Valabrègue; Portrait présumé d'Antony Valabrègue
Rewald (147): 1869–70; Venturi revised: 1871–72; Venturi (127): 1870–71; Gowing: (London) c.1871
Oil on canvas
23 5/8 x 19 13/16 in. (60 x 50.2 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 108, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Valabrègue 1875
Provenance
Exhibition History
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Sonderausstellung Paul Cézanne, April 22–June 15, 1904, no number.
Kgl. Kunstgebäude, Stuttgart, Germany, Grosse Kunstausstellung, May–October 1913, no. 330, as Bildnis des Antony Valabregue, lent by Count Doria, Château d'Orrouy, Oise.
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, L'Impressionnisme, June 15–September 29, 1935, no. 9, as Petit Portrait de Valabrègue, lent by J.V. Pellerin.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 17, as Portrait présumé d'Antony Valabrègue, lent by Pellerin.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 9, ill. lent by Pellerin.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Collection of Mr. and Mrs. André Meyer, June 9–July 8, 1962, ill., p. 16.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Portraits et figures, February–April 1982, no. 16, ill.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, June–September 1983, no. 6, ill., as Portrait d'Antony Valabrègue.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 56, 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. 8, ill., (dated c. 1866), as Portrait d'homme. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 10, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 13, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 3.2, ill. 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
Rosenhagen, Hans. "Von Ausstellungen und Sammlungen." Die Kunst für Alle 19, no. 17 (June 1, 1904), p. 401.
Lord, Douglas. "Two Exhibitions at Brussels: II.-The Impressionists at the Palais des Beaux-Arts." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 67, no. 389 (August 1935), p. 87, as Petit Portrait de Valabrègue.
Boyé, Maurice-Pierre. "Cézanne et Antony Valabrègue." Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 191 (August 28, 1936), p. 1, ill., as Portrait présumé d'Antony Valabrègue.
Guenne, Jacques. "Paul Cézanne et le drame de la peinture." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 204 (1936), ill. p. [154].
Huyghe, René. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 39 p. 166, as Portrait d'Antoine Valabrègue, c. 1868.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 127, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Valabrègue.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 42, ill. p. 169 (analysis p. 315).
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 14.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 47, 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. 147, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait d'Antony Valabrègue.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. "Cézanne and His Friends at Jas de Bouffan." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 23, ill. in color.
Conisbee, Philip. "Cézanne's Provence." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 11, fig. 10, as Portrait d'Antony Valabrègue.
Mitterand, Henri. Paul Cézanne, Émile Zola, Lettres croisées, 1858–1887. Paris: Gallimard, 2016, fig. 8, dated 1869–71.
Butler, Augustin de. "Renoir et Cézanne, 1865–1881." In Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 64, fig. 3.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 51.
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. 70 p. 85.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 213, ill., as Portrait d'homme, Antony Valabrègue.
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 7.
Record last updated November 27, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait d'Antony Valabrègue, 1869–70 (FWN 425)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=156 (accessed on December 2, 2024).
