Catalogue entry

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)

Musée d'Orsay, Paris (RF 1947 29)

Keywords

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Paul Cezanne:
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Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris

Cornelis Hoogendijk, Amsterdam

Paul Rosenberg, Paris (1920)

Henri-Jean Laroche, Paris;

Jacques Laroche, Paris;

Musée du Louvre, Paris (Gift of J. Laroche) (1969);

Musée du Louvre, galerie du Jeu de Paume, Paris (1969-1986);

Musée d'Orsay, Paris (1986)

Exhibition History

1901 The Hague

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.

1911 Amsterdam

Moderne Kunstkring, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Internationale tentoonstelling van moderne kunst, October 6–November 5, 1911, no. 1, as Le Peintre lui-même, Hoogendijk collection.

1922d Paris

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.

1924b Paris

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.

1930a Paris

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.

1939a Paris

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.

1939b London

Rosenberg & Helft, London, Exhibition Cézanne (1839-1906) to celebrate his centenary, April 19–May 20, 1939, no. 3, (dated 1876), lent by J. Laroche.

1952c Paris

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.

1953c Paris

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.

1954 Edinburgh and traveling

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.

1954 Oslo

Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway, Paul Cezanne: 28 malerier, November 13–December 1, 1954, no. 5, as Portrait de l'artiste, lent by M. Jacques Laroche.

1974b Paris

Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne dans les musées nationaux, July 19–October 14, 1974, extended until October 28, no. 17, ill. in color, as Autoportrait.

1984 Madrid

Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Paul Cézanne, March 9–April 1984, no. 10.

1984 Mexico City

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.

1988–89a London and traveling

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.

1995–96 Paris and traveling

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.

2000–01 Seoul

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.

2002 The Hague

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.

2004–05 Beijing and traveling

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.

2005–06 New York and traveling

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).

2008–09 Paris

Grand Palais, Paris, Picasso et les maîtres, October 8, 2008–February 2, 2009, listed p. 356, as Portrait de l'artiste, c. 1873-76.

2011 Rovereto

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.

2011–12 Milan

Palazzo Reale, Milan, Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi, October 20, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 17, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste.

2012 Tokyo

National Art Center, Tokyo, Cézanne: Paris-Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012, no. 62, ill.

2012–13 Budapest

Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 47, ill.

2013 Ornans

Musée Gustave Courbet, Ornans, France, Courbet/Cézanne: La vérité en peinture, June 29–October 14, 2013, no. 4, ill., as Autoportrait.

2014–15 Fort Worth

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.

2015–16 Rome

Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Impressionisti dal Musée d'Orsay: 'Tête à tête', October 15, 2015–February 7, 2016, no. 7, ill., as Autoritratto.

2017 Paris

Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 16, ill.

2017–18 Paris and traveling

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.

2022–23 Abu Dhabi

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.

2023 Le-Puy-en-Velay

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. 1901

G. "Kunst- en Letternieuws: Intern. tentoonstelling, II." Het Vaderland (The Hague), May 25, 1901, Tweede Blad p. [2], as [...] Zijn zelfportret [...].

Loffelt 1901

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 [...].

Henkel 1910

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.

Van Riemsdijk 1910

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.

Rijksmuseum 1911

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 1922

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 1927a

Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, pp. 22 and 56, fig. 8, pl. VI.

Wencker 1929

Wencker, Tilly. "Château Noir." Kunst und Künstler 27, no. 6 (1929), ill. p. 229.

Neugass 1930

Neugass, Fritz. "Paul Cézanne." Der Cicerone 22 , no. 4 (1930), pp. 107-108, before 1873.

Alexandre 1930a

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.

Gasquet 1930b

Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Berlin: B. Cassirer, 1930, ill. opp. p. 128.

Venturi 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 288, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de l'artiste.

Rewald 1936e

Rewald, John. Cézanne et Zola. Paris: Editions A. Sedrowski, 1936, fig. 42.

Bagarry 1939

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 1939

Jaloux, Edmond. "Cézanne." Marianne: grand hebdomadaire politique et littéraire illustré (Paris) (February 22, 1939), ill. p. 12, as Portrait de l'artiste.

Rewald 1939c

Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 41.

Rewald 1946

Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1946, p. 290, ill.

Adhémar et al. 1947

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.

Rewald 1948b

Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, fig. 56.

Rewald 1950a

Rewald, John. Cézanne. London: Phoenix House, 1950, fig. 41.

Fry 1952

Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 22, pl. VI fig. 8, as Portrait of the Artist.

Rewald 1961

Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 362, ill.

Gazette des beaux-arts 1970

"[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.

Huyghe 1971

Huyghe, René. Impressionism. London: Bracken Books, 1971, p. 234, ill.

Adhémar et al. 1973

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 1973

Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, frontispiece.

Venturi 1978

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 59, ill.

Reff 1979b

Reff, Theodore. "The Pictures within Cézanne's Pictures." Arts Magazine 53, no. 10 (June 1979), fig. 6.

Barskaya 1983a

Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 129.

Bonafoux 1986

Bonafoux, Pascal. Les Impressionnistes portraits et confidences. Geneva: Skira, 1986, p. 96, ill.

Compin et al. 1986

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 1986

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.

Rewald 1986b

Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 104, ill.

Kendall 1988

Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 32, ill.

Lévêque 1988

Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 91, ill. in color.

Plazy 1988

Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 38, ill. in color.

Kendall 1989a

Kendall, Richard. The History and Techniques of the Great Master Cézanne. London: Tiger Books International, 1989, p. 23, ill.

Verdi 1990

Verdi, Richard. Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision of Landscape. Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland, 1990. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 30.

Gasquet 1991

Gasquet, Joachim. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne. Translated by C. Pemberton. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991, p. 6, ill.

Heijbroek 1991

Heijbroek, J. "Het Rijksmuseum voor Moderne Kunst van Willem Steenhoff. Werkelijkheid of utopie?" Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 39 (1991), fig. 25.

Verdi 1992

Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 60, fig. 45.

Henkels 1993

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.

Bonafoux 1995

Bonafoux, Pascal. Cézanne: portrait. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 50, ill.

Coutagne 1995

Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne en Provence. Paris: Editions Assouline, 1995.

Dossier de l'art 1995

Dossier de l'art. no. 25, Cézanne. Dijon: Editions Faton, September - October 1995, ill. front inside cover.

Patin 1995

Patin, Sylvie. Cézanne. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 47.

Coutagne et al. 1996

Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 128.

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. 182, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de l'artiste.

Kitschen 1998

Kitschen, Friederike. "Cézannes Hüte - zu einigen Selbstporträts von Paul Cézanne." Pantheon, Internationale Jahreszeitschrift für Kunst 66 (1998), ill., p. 122.

Platzman 2001

Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, pp. 81–83, 196, fig. 4, as Portrait de l'artiste.

Lewis 2002

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 2005b

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.

Farber 2006

Farber, Jules B. Autour de Cézanne. Sommières: Romain Pages, 2006, p. 87, ill. in color.

Lebensztejn 2006

Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. Études cézanniennes. Paris: Flammarion, 2006, p. 23, fig, 6, as Autoportrait, dated circa 1872–76.

Mothe et al. 2006

Mothe, Alain, et al. Cézanne à Auvers-sur-Oise. Saint-Ouen-L'Aumône: editions du Valharmeil, 2006, p. 11, ill.

Machotka 2008

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 2009

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 2011

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 2011

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 2011

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 2013

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 and Hurtu 2021

Chédeville, François, and Raymond Hurtu. "Cezanne sur les bords de Marne." Société Cezanne, August 2021, fig. 12.

Warman 2021

Warman, Jayne. "Chronology." In Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2021, p. 356, ill., as Portrait of the Artist.

Rikhof 2023

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 April 23, 2024).