The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
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Venturi-Rewald Archive, NGA Library
FWN 427
Portrait de Gustave Boyer (vu de face)
c.1870
Alternate titles: Portrait; Portrait de Boyer; Portrait de l'artiste; Selbstbildnis; Selbstporträt; Self portrait
Rewald (175): c.1870; Venturi revised: c.1868; Venturi (130): 1870–71; Vollard: 1867
Oil on canvas
23 5/8 x 17 5/16 in. (60 x 44 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3532, huile; portrait d'homme ayant une veste vert olive et un col blanc ouvert, 57 x 45 cm (150 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 560 and 480, Annotated: 1870
Private collection, Basel
Provenance
Exhibition History
Städtischer Austellungspalast, Dresden, Germany, Grosse Kunstaustellung, May 1–October 15, 1912, no. 1819, as Selbstporträt, lent by Vollard; for sale.
Armory of the Sixty-Ninth Regiment, New York, International Exhibition of Modern Art [Armory Show], February 17–March 15, 1913, no. 219, as Portrait, lent by Vollard, who wanted $4,000 for it. Traveled to: Art Institute, Chicago, March 24–April 15, 1913; Copley Hall, Boston, April 28–May 18, 1913.
Copley Society of Boston, Copley Hall, Boston, Armory Show, April 28–May 19, 1913, no. 18.
Arden Gallery, New York, [Cézanne], March 1917.
Musée de la Ville de Strasbourg, Château de Rohan, Strasbourg, France, L'Impressionnisme, ses précurseurs et ses héritiers au XIXe siècle (La peinture française au XIXe siècle, de Courbet à Cézanne), opening January 10, 1939, no. 10, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste, lent by comte Arnaud Doria. Traveled to: Mulhouse, France, February–March 1939; Belfort, France, February–March 1939; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France, March 25–April 16, 1939; Tours, France, May 1939; Musée municipal, Brest, France, until June 18, 1939.
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France, De Courbet à Cézanne ou l'histoire de l'impressionnisme, March 25–April 16, 1939, as Portrait de l'artiste.
Kunstmuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland, Europäische Meister, 1790–1910, June 12–July 24, 1955, no. 27, as Portrait de Boyer, lent by Private collection, Basel.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 5, ill. lent by Private collection, Basel.
Published References
Royère, Jean. "Paul Cézanne, Erinnerungen." Kunst und Künstler 10, no. 10 (1912), ill. p. 476, as Selbstbildnis.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1913, ill. p. 48, as Selbstbildnis.
McBride, Henry. "Important Cézannes in Arden Galleries." The Sun (New York), March 4, 1917, p. 12, ill., as Self portrait.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 103.
Faure, Elie. "Toujours Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 1, no. 8 (December 1920), ill. p. 266, as Portrait de l'artiste.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 121, as Selbstbildnis, 1873.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 130, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Boyer.
J. "L'exposition 'De Courbet à Cézanne' au Musée des Beaux-Arts." Le Phare de la Loire (Nantes), March 26, 1939, p. 3, as un portrait de l'artiste.
P. [aul] A.[hnne]. "Les expositions à Strasbourg: au château des Rohan." Revue du Rhin: eine Monatsschrift für Kunst und Literatur (Strasbourg) (February 1939), p. 56, as portrait du notaire Boyer.
Brown, Milton. The Story of the Armory Show. New York: J.H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1963, p. 229.
Andersen, Wayne V. "A Cézanne Self-portrait Drawing Reidentified." The Burlington Magazine 105, no. 735 (June 1964), p. 285.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 192, 193, 306.
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. 175, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de Gustave Boyer (vu de face).
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 de Gustave Boyer (vu de face), c.1870 (FWN 427)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=182 (accessed on April 18, 2024).
