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 434
Portrait de l'artiste
c.1875
Alternate titles: Autoportrait; Autoritratto; Autorretrato; Le Peintre lui-même; Portrait de Cézanne; Portrait de Cézanne, par lui-même; Portrait du maître; Portrait of the Artist; Portret van de kunstenaar; Self Portrait; The portrait of the painter himself
Rewald (182): c.1875; Venturi revised: c.1875; Venturi (288): 1875–76; Gowing: c.1873 (Edinburgh) and perhaps 1872 (Burlington)
Oil on canvas
25 3/16 x 20 7/8 in. (64 x 53 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Villa Boschoord (Bezuidenhout), The Hague, the Netherlands, Eerste Internationale Tentoonstelling, May 9–June 12, 1901, no. 23, as Portrait de l'artiste, lent by Hoogendijk.
Moderne Kunstkring, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Internationale tentoonstelling van moderne kunst, October 6–November 5, 1911, no. 1, as Le Peintre lui-même, Hoogendijk collection.
Paul Rosenberg, Paris, Œuvres de grands maitres du dix-neuvième siècle, May 3–June 3, 1922, no. 5, as Portrait de l'artiste, 1877, lent by H.J. Laroche.
Hôtel de la curiosité et des beaux-arts, Paris, Première exposition de collectionneurs au profit de la Société des amis de Luxembourg, March 10–April 10, 1924, no. 133, as Portrait de l'artiste, lent by Laroche.
Galerie Pigalle, Paris, Exposition Cèzanne, 1839–1906, January 4–February 7, 1930, no. 31, ill., as Portrait de Cézanne, par lui-même, lent by Henri-Jean Laroche.
Paul Rosenberg, Paris, Exposition Cézanne (1839-1906), organisée à l'occasion de son centenaire au profit de l’œuvre de l'allaitement maternel, February 21–April 1, 1939, no. 4, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste, 1876, lent by Jacques Laroche.
Rosenberg & Helft, London, Exhibition Cézanne (1839-1906) to celebrate his centenary, April 19–May 20, 1939, no. 3, (dated 1876), lent by J. Laroche.
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, Cinquante ans de peinture française dans les collections particulières de Cézanne à Matisse, March–April 1952, no. 26, pl. 42, as Portrait de l'artiste, c. 1845-1876.
Orangerie, Paris, Monticelli et le baroque provençal, June 19–September 15, 1953, no. 19, as Portrait de l'artiste, c. 1875-1877, lent by Private collection, Paris.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 11, as Portrait de l'artiste, c. 1873, lent by Jacques Laroche. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway, Paul Cezanne: 28 malerier, November 13–December 1, 1954, no. 5, as Portrait de l'artiste, lent by M. Jacques Laroche.
Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne dans les musées nationaux, July 19–October 14, 1974, extended until October 28, no. 17, ill. in color, as Autoportrait.
Museo del palacio de bellas artes, Mexico City, Museo de los Museos: arte universal a través de los tiempos, September–December 1984, no. 53, ill., as Autorretrato, c. 1873-1876.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 63, 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.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 34, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea, L'impressionnisme et l'art moderne (chefs-d’œuvre des collections du Musée d'Orsay), October 26, 2000–February 27, 2001, pp. 78-79, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste, 1873-1876.
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, De tijd van Degas, March 23–July 15, 2002, n. no., pp. 94-95, ill., as Portret van de kunstenaar.
National Museum of Art, Beijing, Trésors impressionnistes des collections nationales françaises, October 10–November 24, 2004, no. 42, ill., as Self Portrait. Traveled to: Museum of Art, Shanghai, November 8, 2004–January 25, 2005; Museum of Art, Hong Kong, February 5–April 10, 2005.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–1885, June 26–September 12, 2005, no. 13, ill., p. 92 (dated 1873–76), as Portrait de l'artiste. Traveled to: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, October 20, 2005–January 16, 2006; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, February 27–May 28, 2006 (Cézanne et Pissarro 1865-1885).
Grand Palais, Paris, Picasso et les maîtres, October 8, 2008–February 2, 2009, listed p. 356, as Portrait de l'artiste, c. 1873-76.
Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy, La rivoluzione dello sguardo: impressionismo e postimpressionismo dal Musée d'Orsay, March 19–July 24, 2011, no. 11, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste.
Palazzo Reale, Milan, Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi, October 20, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 17, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste.
National Art Center, Tokyo, Cézanne: Paris-Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012, no. 62, ill.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 47, ill.
Musée Gustave Courbet, Ornans, France, Courbet/Cézanne: La vérité en peinture, June 29–October 14, 2013, no. 4, ill., as Autoportrait.
Kimbell Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from the Musée d'Orsay, October 19, 2014–January 25, 2015, no. 31, ill., pp. 130–32 (dated 1881–82), as Portrait of the Artist.
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Impressionisti dal Musée d'Orsay: 'Tête à tête', October 15, 2015–February 7, 2016, no. 7, ill., as Autoritratto.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 16, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 5.1, 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.
Louvre Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Impressionnisme: la modernité, October 12, 2022–February 5, 2023, no. 70, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste.
Musée d'Orsay, Musée Crozatier, Le-Puy-en-Velay, France, Autoportraits de Cézanne à van Gogh
Collections du musée d'Orsay & des musées Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, April 29–September 17, 2023, p. 76, ill. p. 77, as Portrait de l'artiste, comments by Xavier Rey.
Published References
G. "Kunst- en Letternieuws: Intern. tentoonstelling, II." Het Vaderland (The Hague), May 25, 1901, Tweede Blad p. [2], as [...] Zijn zelfportret [...].
Loffelt, A.C. "Internationale tentoonstelling te 's-Gravennage. II." Het Nieuws van den Dag: kleine courant (Amsterdam), May 23, 1901, p. 9, as [...] het portret van Paul Cézanne [...].
M.[ax] D.[itmar] H.[enkel]. "Das Rijkesmuseum für Moderne Kunst zu Amsterdam." Kunstchronik: Wochenschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe Neue Folge XXI, no. 13 (January 14, 1910), col. 213, as Selbstbildnis.
Riemsdijk, Barthold Willem Floris van. Catalogue of the Pictures, Miniatures, Pastels, Framed Drawings etc. at the Rijks-Museum at Amsterdam. Amsterdam: Roeloffzen-Hübner and Van Santen, 1910, p. 425, no. 688D, as The portrait of the painter himself.
Catalogue des tableaux, miniatures, pastels, dessins encadrés, etc. du Musée de l'État à Amsterdam. Amsterdam: Roeloffzen-Hübner et Van Santen, 1911, p. 99, no. 688D, as Le Peintre lui-même.
Janneau, Guillaume. "Les grandes expositions: maîtres du siècle passé." La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe (Paris), vol. 5, no. 5 (May 1922), p. 342, as Portrait du maître.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, pp. 22 and 56, fig. 8, pl. VI.
Neugass, Fritz. "Paul Cézanne." Der Cicerone 22 , no. 4 (1930), pp. 107-108, before 1873.
Alexandre, Arsène. "L'Exposition Cézanne à la galerie du Théâtre Pigalle." La Renaissance (Paris; New York), vol. 13, no. 1 (January 1930), p. 75, as Portrait de Cézanne, par lui-même.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 288, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de l'artiste.
Bagarry, Adrien-Pierre. "Le centenaire de Cézanne." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 22, no. 1 (March 1939), p. 3, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste, 1867, J. Laroche collection.
Jaloux, Edmond. "Cézanne." Marianne: grand hebdomadaire politique et littéraire illustré (Paris) (February 22, 1939), ill. p. 12, as Portrait de l'artiste.
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 41.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1946, p. 290, ill.
Adhémar, Hélène et al. Catalogue des peintures et sculptures exposées au Musée de l’Impressionnisme (Jeu de Paume des Tuileries): les impressionnistes, leurs précurseurs et leurs contemporains. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1947, p. 24, no. 33, as Portrait de Cézanne, c. 1875-1876.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 22, pl. VI fig. 8, as Portrait of the Artist.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 362, ill.
"[Aquisitions des musées du monde entier]." La Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 1213 (February 1970), p. 19, no. 95, ill., as Autoportrait.
Adhémar, Hélène, and Anne Dayez. Musée du Jeu de Paume. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1973, listed pp. 140-141, ill. p. 22, as Portrait de l'artiste, c. 1873-76.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, frontispiece.
Reff, Theodore. "The Pictures within Cézanne's Pictures." Arts Magazine 53, no. 10 (June 1979), fig. 6.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 129.
Bonafoux, Pascal. Les Impressionnistes portraits et confidences. Geneva: Skira, 1986, p. 96, ill.
Compin, Isabelle et Anne Roquebert. Catalogue sommaire illustré des peintures du musée du Louvre et du musée d'Orsay. 3, École Française, A-K. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1986, p. 113, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste, c. 1873-76.
Rewald, John. "Cézanne and Guillaumin." In Studies in Impressionism, Edited by Irene Gordon and Frances Weitzenhoffer. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., p. 104, fig. 53, as Self Portrait.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 91, ill. in color.
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 38, ill. in color.
Kendall, Richard. The History and Techniques of the Great Master Cézanne. London: Tiger Books International, 1989, p. 23, ill.
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision of Landscape. Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland, 1990. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 30.
Gasquet, Joachim. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne. Translated by C. Pemberton. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991, p. 6, ill.
Heijbroek, J. "Het Rijksmuseum voor Moderne Kunst van Willem Steenhoff. Werkelijkheid of utopie?" Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 39 (1991), fig. 25.
Henkels, Herbert. "Cézanne en Van Gogh in het Rijksmuseum voor Moderne Kunst in Amsterdam: De collectie van Cornelis Hoogendijk (1866–1911)." Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 41, nos. 3–4 (1993), ill. on back cover.
Dossier de l'art. no. 25, Cézanne. Dijon: Editions Faton, September - October 1995, ill. front inside cover.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 128.
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. 182, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de l'artiste.
Kitschen, Friederike. "Cézannes Hüte - zu einigen Selbstporträts von Paul Cézanne." Pantheon, Internationale Jahreszeitschrift für Kunst 66 (1998), ill., p. 122.
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, pp. 81–83, 196, fig. 4, as Portrait de l'artiste.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "The Path to Les Lauves: A History of Cézanne's Studios." In Atelier Cézanne, 1902–2002: Le centenaire. Aix-en-Provence: Société Paul Cézanne, 2002, fig. 14, ill. in color.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Sammler. Von Zola bis Annenberg." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel,
Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 170, ill.
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. Études cézanniennes. Paris: Flammarion, 2006, p. 23, fig, 6, as Autoportrait, dated circa 1872–76.
Mothe, Alain, et al. Cézanne à Auvers-sur-Oise. Saint-Ouen-L'Aumône: editions du Valharmeil, 2006, p. 11, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 116; vol. 2, p. 91, as Portrait de l'artiste.
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, p. 181, fig. 57, as Portrait de l'artiste, c. 1877–80.
Chiappini, Rudy. "Quel silenzio, in attesa del tempo della rivelazione." In Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi. Milan: Skira, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 20, ill. (detail).
Rubin, James. "Armand Guillaumin et Paul Cézanne en Île-de-France." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 67, fig. 31, as Portrait de l'artiste, dated circa 1873–75.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed., Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 35, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste, with Guillaumin landscape (p. 34).
Chiappini, Rudy. "I temi prediletti del padre della modernità." In Cézanne e gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 100, fig. 6.
Chédeville, François, and Raymond Hurtu. "Cezanne sur les bords de Marne." Société Cezanne, August 2021, fig. 12.
Warman, Jayne. "Chronology." In Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2021, p. 356, ill., as Portrait of the Artist.
Rikhof, Maalke. "Symbolist, Post-Impressionist, Cubist, Traditonalist, The Reception of Paul Cézanne in the Netherlands, 1890–1930." In Van Gogh, Cézanne, Le Fauconnier and the Bergen School. Zwolle: Stedelijk Museum and Waanders, 2023. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 34.
Notes
The painting behind the artist is by Armand Guillaumin, La Seine à Paris, 1871 (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston). Rewald (1996, p. 143) compares Cézanne's image to a photograph from about 1875 and a painting by Camille Pissarro, Portrait de Paul Cézanne, 1874 (National Gallery, London, on loan from Laurence Graff, OBE).
Armand Guillaumin, La Seine à Paris, 1871, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Camille Pissarro, Portrait de Paul Cézanne, 1874. National Gallery, London (On loan from Laurence Graff OBE)
Record last updated December 14, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de l'artiste, c.1875 (FWN 434)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=188 (accessed on July 12, 2025).
