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Catalogue entry

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)
Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett

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Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Lucas Lichtenhan, Basel
Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett (1951)
Exhibition History
1936c Paris
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.
1951 Geneva
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.
1953c Paris
Orangerie, Paris, Monticelli et le baroque provençal, June 19–September 15, 1953, no. 21, as Achille Emperaire, 1867-1870, lent by Kunstmuseum Basel.
1978 Tübingen
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.
1979 Rome
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 28, ill., p. 39.
1988d New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: The Basel Sketchbooks, March 10–June 5, 1988, listed p. 146, ill. p. 51.
1988–89a London and traveling
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.
1995–96 Paris and traveling
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.
2017 Basel
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 66, ill.
Published References
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, p. 161, ill., as Portrait d'Achille Emperaire.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1194, ill. vol. II.
Cogniat 1959
Cogniat, Raymond. Le Siècle des impressionnistes. Paris: Flammarion, 1959, p. 84, ill.
Chappuis 1962
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 1963c
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 1964
Longstreet, Stephen. The Drawings of Cézanne. Los Angeles: Borden Publishing Company, ill.
Andersen 1967b
Andersen, Wayne V. "Cézanne's Portrait Drawings from the 1860's." Master Drawings, vol. 5, no. 3 (Autumn 1967), p. 272, pl. 20.
Siblík 1969
Siblík, Jiří. Paul Cézanne: Kresby [Drawings]. Prague: Odeon, 1969, fig. 1.
Andersen 1970
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 217, ill.
Ikegami 1970
Ikegami, Chuji. "The Drawings of Paul Cézanne." Bijutsushi 76 (1970), pl. I.
Chappuis 1973
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 1988
Koepplin, Dieter. Paul Cézanne: Die Basler Zeichnungen. Basel: Kunstmuseum, 1988, no. 13, ill.
Verdi 1992
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 42, fig. 27.
Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 170, fig. 105.
Pissarro 2005
Pissarro, Joachim. Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–85. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 47, fig. 35.
Elderfield, Morton, Rey 2017
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 80, fig. 30.
Ruppen 2017
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, Morton, Rey 2017a
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.
Société Paul Cezanne 2019
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 4, 2024).