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 429
L'Homme au chapeau de paille (Gustave Boyer)
c.1871
Alternate titles: L'Homme au chapeau de paille; L'Homme au chapeau de paille (Boyer); L'Homme au chapeau de paille (portrait de Boyer); L'Homme au chapeau de paille - Gustave Boyer; Man with a Straw Hat; Portrait de Boyer; Portrait – Man with a Straw Hat; Selbsporträt; Selbstbildnis
Rewald (174): c.1871; Venturi revised: c.1868; Venturi (131): 1870–71; Rivière: 1873; Vollard: 1872; Cooper: c.1871; Gowing: c.1871 (Edinburgh); Ratcliffe: probably 1871; Machotka et al: c.1871
Oil on paper mounted on canvas
21 5/8 x 15 5/16 in. (55 x 38.8 cm)
Signed lower right in red: P. Cezanne
Vollard B stockbook: no. 3947, Son portrait par lui-même. Cadeau, valeur 500 Fr, 55 x 39 cm
Vollard archives: photo no. 5, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Ch. Boyer, 1868
Provenance
Exhibition History
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The H.O. Havemeyer Collection, March 10–November 2, 1930, no. 4.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 15, as Portrait de Boyer, lent by Metropolitan Museum, New York; exhibited for the first time.
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Cézanne and Gauguin, November 1–December 13, 1936, no. 23, ill., as Man with a Straw Hat, lent by Metropolitan Museum.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, The Art of Cézanne, January 7–February 5, 1950, as L'Homme au chapeau de paille (Boyer), lent by Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 10, ill. lent by Metropolitan Museum. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 4–August 4, 1953, no. 4, ill. p. [10], lent by Metropolitan Museum. Traveled to: Musée Masséna, Nice, France, August 8–September 12, 1953; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble, France, September 15–October 18, 1953.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 7, as L'Homme au chapeau de paille, c. 1871, lent by the Metropolitan Museum, New York. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 5, ill.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 6, ill. lent by Metropolitan Museum.
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, (Kunsthaus Lempertz), Cologne, Cézanne, Ausstellung zum Gedenken an sein 50. Todesjahr, December 1956–January 1957, no. 2, pl. 17, lent by Metropolitan Museum.
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 6, pl. 3.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 57, 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.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection, March 27–June 20, 1993, no. 68, ill.
Published References
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Paul Cézanne." In Impressionisten: Guys, Manet, van Gogh, Pissarro, Cézanne. Munich and Leipzig: R. Piper & Co., 1907, ill. p. 181, as Selbstbildnis, c. 1875.
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 11, as L'Homme au chapeau de paille.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 102.
Bernard, Émile. "La technique de Paul Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 1, no. 8 (December 1920), ill. p. 277, as L'Homme au chapeau de paille.
Glaser, Curt. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1922, pl. 1, as Selbsporträt, c. 1872.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 120, as Selbstbildnis, 1874.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 200, listed.
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne: His Life and Art. Translated by Harold L. van Doren. New York: Nicholas Brown, 1923, ill. opp. p. 20.
"Havemeyer Collection at the Metropolitan Museum." The Art News 28 (March 15, 1930), p. 43, ill., as Man with a Straw Hat.
Wehle, Harry B. "The Exhibition of the H.O. Havemeyer Collection." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 25, no. 3 (March 1930), p. 58, mentioned.
"Au Metropolitan Museum: La collection Havemeyer." Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 4 (April 20, 1930), p. 8 (listed), as L'Homme au chapeau de paille.
Waldmann, Emil. Paul Cézanne: Acht farbige Gemälde. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1930, frontispiece 1.
H.O. Havemeyer Collection: Catalogue of Paintings, Prints, Sculpture and Object of Art. Portland, Me.: [privately published], 1931, pp. 58f, as Portrait – Man with a Straw Hat.
Peschcke-Koedt, Matthias. "Det syvende Bud." Samleren 11 (January 1934), p. 6, ill.
Huyghe, René. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 46 p. 170, as Portrait de Boyer, c. 1871.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 131, ill. vol. II, as L'Homme au chapeau de paille (portrait de Boyer).
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 30, ill. p. 168 (analysis pp. 313–14).
Jewell, Edward Alden. French Impressionists and Their Contemporaries. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944, p. 148, ill.
Roger-Marx, Claude. Les Impressionnistes. Paris: Hachette, 1956, p. 78, as Portrait de Boyer.
H. O. Havemeyer Collection. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1958, p. 13, no. 63 (listed).
Novotny, Fritz. Painting and Sculpture in Europe 1780 to 1880. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1960, p. 206.
Andersen, Wayne V. "A Cézanne Self-portrait Drawing Reidentified." The Burlington Magazine 105, no. 735 (June 1964), p. 285, fig. 34.
Sterling, Charles, and Margaretta M. Salinger. French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. III. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1967, pp. 97–98, ill. (with extensive references).
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, p. 8, fig. 7.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 5, with comments.
Baetjer, Katherine. European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980, p. 26, ill. p. 614.
Weitzenhoffer, Frances. The Havemeyers: Impressionism Comes to America. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 147, pl. 117.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 217, ill. in color.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 193.
Wold, Gretchen. "Appendix." In Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, no. 68, 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. 174, ill. vol. 2, as L'Homme au chapeau de paille (Gustave Boyer).
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. 21, ill. in color.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 60; vol. 2, p. 58, as L'Homme au chapeau de paille - Gustave Boyer.
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. 63 p. 63.
Notes
Gustave Boyer (b. 1840) was a childhood friend of the artist's and became a notary in Eguilles (Bouches du Rhône). Boyer's portraits have sometimes been confused with Cézanne's self-portraits.
Record last updated October 26, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Homme au chapeau de paille (Gustave Boyer), c.1871 (FWN 429)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=181 (accessed on January 18, 2025).
