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 428
Portrait de Gustave Boyer
c.1870
Alternate titles: Portrait de Boyer; Porträt Courbet
Rewald (176): c.1870; Venturi revised: 1868; Venturi (132): 1870–71; Rivière: 1873; Machotka et al: c.1871
Oil on canvas
18 x 15 in. (45.7 x 38 cm)
Vollard C stockbook: no. 7154, Tête d'homme. époque ancien, 46 x 38 cm
Vollard W stockbook: no. 338, Tête d'homme, 46 x 38 (5,000)
Vollard archives: photo no. 135, Annotated by Cezanne's son: circa 1870
Provenance
Exhibition History
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Sonderausstellung Paul Cézanne, April 22–June 15, 1904, no number, as Porträt Courbet, tentative identification.
Bignou Gallery, New York, Paul Cézanne, November–December 1936, no. 6, as Portrait de Boyer, lent by Vollard.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Cézanne, January 5, 1937.
Bignou Gallery, New York, Masterpieces by 19th Century French Painters, April 11–30, 1938, no. 4.
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, The Spirit of Modern France, November–December 1946, no. 53. Traveled to: Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, January–February 1947.
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Canadian National Exhibition, August 26–September 10, 1949, no. 4.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, The Two Sides of the Medal: French painting from Gèrôme to Gauguin, September 28–October 31, 1954, extended until November 11, no. 96, ill., as Portrait de Boyer.
Milwaukee Art Institute, Milwaukee, Inaugural Exhibition, September 12–October 20, 1957, no. 63, ill.
Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, French painting, 1840-1924 : a travelling exhibition prepared by the Extension Services of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa,, March 22–April 14, 1971, no. 7, ill.
Published References
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 200, listed.
Breuning, Margaret. "Exhibition at Bignou Gallery." Parnassus 8, no. 7 (December 1936), p. 26, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 132, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Boyer.
Hubbard, Robert Hamilton. "Recent Acquisitions of the National Gallery of Canada." Art Quarterly (Summer 1947), pp. 229, 231.
Hubbard, Robert Hamilton. The National Gallery of Canada: Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. Ottawa: University of Toronto Press, 1959, p. 4, no. 4550, ill.
Hubbard, Robert Hamilton. European Paintings in Canadian Collections,vol. II. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1962, pp. xxii, 150.
Andersen, Wayne V. "A Cézanne Self-portrait Drawing Reidentified." The Burlington Magazine 105, no. 735 (June 1964), p. 285.
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.
Boggs, Jean Sutherland. The National Gallery of Canada. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1971, p. 40, fig. 50.
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. 176, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de Gustave Boyer.
Record last updated March 26, 2014. 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, c.1870 (FWN 428)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=183 (accessed on December 13, 2024).
