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 1704
Portrait d'Achille Emperaire
1867–70
Alternate titles: Achille Emperaire; Bildnis Achille Emperaire; Head of Achille Emperaire; Portrait d'Emperaire; Portrait of Achille Emperaire; Tête d'Achille Emperaire
Chappuis (229); Venturi (1194): 1867–70
Charcoal on laid paper
Watermark: D & C BLAUW
17 x 12 9/16 in. (43.2 x 31.9 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 149, as Portrait d'Emperaire, c. 1877, lent by Paul Cézanne fils, Paris.
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, De Watteau à Cézanne, July 7–September 30, 1951, no. 90, as Portrait d'Achille Emperaire, lent by Kunstmuseum, Basel.
Orangerie, Paris, Monticelli et le baroque provençal, June 19–September 15, 1953, no. 21, as Achille Emperaire, 1867-1870, lent by Kunstmuseum Basel.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 31, ill. p. 124, as Bildnis Achille Emperaire, 1868-1870, lent by Kunstmuseum Basel.
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 28, ill., p. 39.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: The Basel Sketchbooks, March 10–June 5, 1988, listed p. 146, ill. p. 51.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 79, ill., as Tête d'Achille Emperaire, shown in Paris and Washington, D.C. only. 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. 20, ill. in color, p. 118, as Achille Emperaire, 1869-1870, lent by Kunstmuseum, Basel. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 66, ill.
Published References
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, p. 161, ill., as Portrait d'Achille Emperaire.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1194, ill. vol. II.
Chappuis, Adrien. Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle. Olten and Lausanne: Urs Graf, 1962, no. 50, ill.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne Drawings." Review of Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle, by Adrien Chappuis. The Burlington Magazine 105, no. 725 (August 1963), p. 376.
Longstreet, Stephen. The Drawings of Cézanne. Los Angeles: Borden Publishing Company, ill.
Andersen, Wayne V. "Cézanne's Portrait Drawings from the 1860's." Master Drawings, vol. 5, no. 3 (Autumn 1967), p. 272, pl. 20.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 217, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 229, ill., as Portrait of Achille Emperaire.
Koepplin, Dieter. Paul Cézanne: Die Basler Zeichnungen. Basel: Kunstmuseum, 1988, no. 13, ill.
Pissarro, Joachim. Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–85. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 47, fig. 35.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 80, fig. 30.
Ruppen, Fabienne. "Paul Cézanne's Loose Sheets in the Kupferstichkabinett of the Kunstmuseum Basel." In The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas. Basel: Prestel, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 226, fig. 7 (detail).
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. London and Princeton, N,J.: National Portrait Gallery Publications and Princeton University Press, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 30, dated c. 1867–70.
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. 57 p. 74.
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Record last updated April 30, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait d'Achille Emperaire, 1867–70 (FWN 1704)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1883 (accessed on May 2, 2025).
