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 1730
Autoportrait
1878
Alternate titles: Cézanne vu par lui-même; Portrait de Cézanne; Self-portrait; Self-Portrait - Portrait de l'artiste; Selvportraet (Portrait de l'artiste); Självporträtt
Venturi (1238): 1878–85; Chappuis (403): c.1878; Andersen: c.1877–78
Graphite on paper
8 x 5 11/16 in. (18.5 x 14.5 cm)
Private collection
Provenance
Exhibition History
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark, Fransk Malerkunst fra det 19nde Aarhundrede [French Art of the Nineteenth Century], May 15–June 30, 1914, no. 231, as Selvportraet (Portrait de l'artiste), lent by Eugen Blot.
Société des peintres-graveurs français, Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, XXe exposition including Rétrospectives Paul Cézanne et P.-A. Renoir, aquarelles, dessins, gravures, lithographies, March 24–April 15, 1933, no. 21, as Portrait de Cézanne.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 151, as Portrait de Cézanne, c. 1878-80, lent by Maurice Gobin, Paris.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–1885, June 26–September 12, 2005, no. 16, ill., p. 97, as Autoportrait, c. 1877, lent by Private collection, Paris. 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).
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 84, ill. lent by Private collection.
Published References
Lorentzen, Mogens. "Maleren og tiden [The painter and time]." Konstrevy (Stockholm) XII, no. 5 (1936), ill. p. 140, as Självporträtt.
Rewald, John. "Iconographie de Cézanne: vu par lui-même." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 1 p. [159] (title page), as Cézanne vu par lui-même.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1238, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Cézanne.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 113, as Self-Portrait - Portrait de l'artiste, c. 1880, M. Gobin, Paris.
Gobin, Maurice. L'art expressif aux XIXe siècle français: 120 dessins, aquarelles gouaches et pastels, commentés et illustrés. Paris: Quatre Chemins-Editart, 1970, dated1880.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 5, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 403, ill., as Self-portrait.
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 202, no. 7, ill.
Record last updated November 30, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Autoportrait, 1878 (FWN 1730)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2062 (accessed on May 3, 2025).
