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Catalogue entry

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)
Private collection, Basel

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
François Desfriches Doria, Orrouy (Dec. 19, 1913)
Galerie E. Bignou, Paris (1940)
Lucas Lichtenhan, Basel
Arthur Wilhelm, Basel (1950);
Private collection, Basel
Exhibition History
1912 Dresden
Städtischer Austellungspalast, Dresden, Germany, Grosse Kunstaustellung, May 1–October 15, 1912, no. 1819, as Selbstporträt, lent by Vollard; for sale.
1913 New York
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.
1913 Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Armory Show, March 24–April 16, 1913, no. 43.
1913 Boston
Copley Society of Boston, Copley Hall, Boston, Armory Show, April 28–May 19, 1913, no. 18.
1917 New York
Arden Gallery, New York, [Cézanne], March 1917.
1939 Strasbourg and traveling
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.
1939 Nantes
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.
1955 Winterthur
Kunstmuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland, Europäische Meister, 1790–1910, June 12–July 24, 1955, no. 27, as Portrait de Boyer, lent by Private collection, Basel.
1956 Zurich
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Paul Cézanne, August 22–October 7, 1956, no. 9.
1956 Munich
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 5, ill. lent by Private collection, Basel.
Published References
Royère 1912
Royère, Jean. "Paul Cézanne, Erinnerungen." Kunst und Künstler 10, no. 10 (1912), ill. p. 476, as Selbstbildnis.
Meier-Graefe 1913
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1913, ill. p. 48, as Selbstbildnis.
McBride 1917
McBride, Henry. "Important Cézannes in Arden Galleries." The Sun (New York), March 4, 1917, p. 12, ill., as Self portrait.
Meier-Graefe 1918a
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 1920
Faure, Elie. "Toujours Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 1, no. 8 (December 1920), ill. p. 266, as Portrait de l'artiste.
Meier-Graefe 1922
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.
Meier-Graefe 1923
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper, 1923, ill. p. 43.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 130, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Boyer.
J. 1939
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.A. 1939
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 1963
Brown, Milton. The Story of the Armory Show. New York: J.H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1963, p. 229.
Andersen 1964
Andersen, Wayne V. "A Cézanne Self-portrait Drawing Reidentified." The Burlington Magazine 105, no. 735 (June 1964), p. 285.
Rewald 1989
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 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. 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 March 28, 2024).