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 3008-40a
Autoportrait
1880–82
Alternate titles: Portrait de l'artiste; Portrait de l'artiste par lui-même; Selbstbildnis Cézannes; Self-portrait; Tête de Paul Cézanne; Zelfportret
Chappuis (614); Venturi (1293)
Graphite on wove paper, p. XL from the CP II sketchbook
4 7/8 x 8 9/16 in. (12.4 x 21.8 cm)
Provenance
Private collection, Paris
Private collection, New York
Exhibition History
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 157, as Portrait de l'artiste, c. 1885-90, lent by Adrien Chappuis, Paris.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Gifts to the Nation: Selected Acquisitions from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, July 20–October 17, 1986.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Washington, An Enduring Legacy: Masterpieces from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, November 7, 1999–February 27, 2000.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 25, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1293, ill. vol. II, as "Page XL".
Rewald, John. "Un épisode inconnu de la vie de Cézanne." Paris. Marianne: grand hebdomadaire littéraire illustré (October 20, 1937), p. 8, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste par lui-même, c. 1880.
Chappuis, Adrien. Dessins de Paul Cézanne. Paris: Editions des chroniques du jour, 1938, no. 1, ill., as Tête de Paul Cézanne.
Rewald, John. "Eine unbekannte Episode aus dem Leben Cézannes." Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Erste Sonntagausgabe, no. 218, Febr. 6, 1938, [p. 1], ill., as Selbstbildnis Cézannes, c. 1880.
Anonymous. "Pour le centième anniversaire de la naissance de Cézanne." L'Oeuvre (Paris), January 8, 1967, ill. p. 7, as Cézanne par lui-même.
Anonymous. "Paul Cézanne." De Maasbode (Rotterdam), July 5, 1939, ill. p. 5 (tweede blad), as Zelfportret.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 19, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 614, ill., as Self-portrait.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 131.
Coutagne, Denis. "Le retour de l'enfant prodigue." In Cézanne au Musée d'Aix. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1984, ill. p. 40.
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 204, no. 16, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 191; vol. 2, p. 131, as Self-portrait.
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 276, ill.
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Chappuis II (CP II), 1871–98 (3008)
Sketchbook Chappuis II (CP II), 1871–98 (3008)
The sketchbook originally contained 50 sheets; the pages are numbered on the "a" side at lower right in Roman numerals.
At the time of Chappuis' purchase from Paul Guillaume, the sketchbook was incomplete and a number of pages already dispersed and are still missing.
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current: Autoportrait, 1880–82 (3008-40a)
Record last updated October 7, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Autoportrait, 1880–82 (FWN 3008-40a), p. XL from the CP II sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2283&sketchbook=3008 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
