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 424
Portrait d'Antoine-Fortuné Marion
1870–71
Alternate titles: Bildnis Marion; Portrait de Fortuné Marion; Portrait de Marion; Portrait of Antoine-Forarion
Rewald (177): c.1871; Venturi revised: c.1868; Venturi (129): 1870–71; Rivière: 1865; Ratcliffe: possibly summer 1867; Machotka et al: c.1871; Other: Barr: 1867–68
Oil on canvas
16 x 12 13/16 in. (40.6 x 32.5 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, May 18–29, 1931.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 8, as Bildnis Marion, 1870-71, lent by A. Mettler-Specker, St. Gallen.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Kunstwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts aus Basler Privatbesitz, May 1–July 4, 1943, no. 315.
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Paul Cézanne, August 22–October 7, 1956, no. 8, lent by Private collection, Switzerland.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 11, ill., (dated 1866–67). Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 4, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 1.2, 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
Coquiot, Gustave. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Ollendorf, 1919, pp. 18, 37, as Portrait de Marion.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 196, listed.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 129, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Marion.
Barr, Jr., Alfred H. "Cézanne, d'après les lettres de Marion à Morstatt (1865-1868)." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 17, periode 6 (January 1937), fig. 2 p. 39, as Portrait de Fortuné Marion.
Scholari, Margaret, and Alfred Barr. "Cézanne in the Letters of Marion to Morstatt, 1865–68." Magazine of Art 31, no. 2 (February 1938), pp. 84–89; no. 4 (April 1938), pp. 86–87 and note 9, fig. 3.
Vollard, Ambroise. En écoutant Cézanne, Degas, Renoir. Paris: B. Grasset, 1938, p. 20, as Portrait de Marion.
Geelhaar, Christian. "Paul Cézannes Porträt von Fortune Marion." Basler Zeitung, July 4, 1978, p. 29, ill.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 28, ill. in color.
"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), p. 37, ill.
Geelhaar, Christian. Kunstmuseum Basel. Die Geschichte der Gemäldesammlung und eine Auswahl von 250 Meisterwerken. Zurich: Eidolon, 1992, p. 154.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 92, fig. 2.
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. 177, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait d'Antoine-Fortuné Marion.
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. 22, ill. in color.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 62; vol. 2, p. 58, as Portrait d'Antoine-Fortuné Marion.
Dombrowski, André. Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, p. 47, fig. 22.
Mettler, Kurt. Tagebücher 1927–1930. Zurich: Limmat Verlag, 2019, p. 983, ill., as Portrait d'Antoine-Fortuné Marion.
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. 68 p. 82.
Causey, Faya. "Finds." In Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press. Exhibition catalogue, p. 43, fig. 25, as Portrait of Antoine-Forarion, dated 1870–71.
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 18.
Notes
Marion (1846-1900) was a childhood friend of the artist. He became a professor on the science faculty and director of the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle in Marseille.
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. "Portrait d'Antoine-Fortuné Marion, 1870–71 (FWN 424)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=184 (accessed on February 8, 2025).