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 436
Portrait de l'artiste au fond rose
c.1875
Alternate titles: Autoportrait; Autoportrait au fond rose; Portrait de Cézanne; Portrait de Cézanne sur fond rose; Portrait de l'artiste; Portrait de peintre; Selbstbildnis; Selbstporträt; Self Portrait; Self-Portrait with a Pink Background; Son Portrait; Zelfportret
Rewald (274): c.1875; Venturi revised: c.1876; Venturi (286): 1873–76; Rivière: c.1880 (1993); Cooper: 1875–76; Gowing: 1873–74 (Burlington)
Oil on canvas
26 x 21 5/8 in. (66 x 55 cm)
Provenance
Private collection, Switzerland
Exhibition History
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Rétrospective d'oeuvres de Cézanne, October 1–22, 1907, no. 22, as Portrait de peintre, lent by Pellerin.
Grosvenor House, London, Modern French Art, July 1-21, 1914, extended until end of July, no. 2, ill., as Son Portrait, lent by Pellerin.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 47, pl. II, as Portrait de Cézanne sur fond rose, lent by Lecomte.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 39, ill. lent by Lecomte, catalogued but not exhibited. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 33, pl. XIV, lent by private collection, Paris.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, June–September 1983, no. 8, ill., (dated 1873–74), as Autoportrait, lent by Private collection.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 17, pl. 68.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 13, ill.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 35, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne und die Moderne, October 10, 1999–January 9, 2000, no. 5, ill., p. 33, as Portrait de l'artiste au fond rose.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, De Cézanne à Giacometti : une grande donation aux musées de France [donation Philippe Meyer], October 17–November 19, 2000, no. 10, ill.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 1, ill. lent by Private collection (life interest to Orsay). Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, L'autre collection: hommage à Ernst et Hildy Beyeler, August 19, 2007–January 6, 2008, listed p. 278, ill. p. 18, as Portrait de l'artiste au fond rose, 1873-1876.
de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, Birth of Impressionism - Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay, May 22–September 6, 2010, no. 98, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste au fond rose.
Fundación Cultural MAPFRE, Madrid, Impresionismo: un nuevo renacimiento, January 15–April 4, 2010, no. 62, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste au fond rose. Traveled to: de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, May 22–September 6, 2010; Frist Center of the Visiual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, October 15, 2010–January 23, 2011.
Centro Cutural do Brasil, Sao Paulo, Impressionismo, Paris e a modernida: Obras-primas Musée d'Orsay, August 4–October 7, 2012, no. 27, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste au fond rose. Traveled to: Centro Cutural do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, October 22, 2012–January 13, 2013; Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, February 12–May 5, 2013.
The National Art Center, Japan, Naissance de l'impressionnisme: La liberté de peindre. Collections du musée d'Orsay, July 9–October 20, 2014, no. 69, ill., as Autoportrait au fond rose.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 17, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 5.2, 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.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 32, ill. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cezanne au Jas de Bouffan, June 28–October 12, 2025, no. 64, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste au fond rose.
Published References
Pératé, André. "Le Salon d'Automne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 38, periode 3 (November, 1907), p. 385, ill.
Rilke, Rainer Maria. "Letter to Clara Rilke dated Paris, Oct. 23, 1907." In Briefe über Cézanne. Wiesbaden: Erschienen im Insel-Verlag, 1952.
Shirakaba 3, no. 9 (September 1912), frontispiece, page illiustrated in Schoneveld, 2019, p. 60, fig. 47.
Borgmeyer, Charles Louis. The Master Impressionists. Chicago: The Fine Arts Press, 1913, p. 199, ill., as Self Portrait, Collection Pellerin.
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1913, pl. 68, as Selbstporträt.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1913, frontispiece, dated c. 1880.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 110.
Westheim, Paul. Die Welt als Vorstellung. Potsdam–Berlin: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1918, p. 118, ill.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 131, as Selbstbildnis, 1879.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XXI.
Fry, Roger. "Cézannes Udvikling." Samleren 6 (July, August, September 1929), frontispiece (July).
Block, Olga. "Paul Cezanne, de meester der kleuren [Paul Cezanne, the master of colours]." Amersfoortsch Dagblad: De Eemlander (Amsterdam), October 31, 1931, ill. p. 15 (detail), as Zelfportret.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 73, ill.
Tourrette, Gilles de la. "Paul Cézanne." Art et les Artistes 32 (July 1936), p. 331, ill., as Portrait de Cézanne sur fond rose, dated circa 1875.
Huyghe, René. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 59 p. 176, as Portrait de Cézanne, c. 1880.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 286, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de l'artiste.
Huyghe, René. "L'Exposition Cézanne à l'Orangerie." Bulletin des musées de France 8, no. 6 (June 1936), p. 91, ill.
Rilke, Rainer Maria. "Dichter über Kunstwerke, die sie lieben: Rainer Maria Rilke über zwei Bilder von Paul Cézanne." Die Kunst für Alle 54, no. 1 (October 1938), pp. 31-32, ill., as Selbstbildnis.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 81, p. 204, ill. (analysis p. 339).
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 75, ill.
Storey, Benjamin. "Retrospettiva Cézanne." Emporium 115, no. 689 (May 1952), p. 195, ill.
Leonhard, Kurt. Paul Cézanne in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Rheinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1966, p. 143, ill.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, p. 15, fig. 14.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 52, ill.
Gasquet, Joachim. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne. Translated by C. Pemberton. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991, p. 84, ill.
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. 274, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de l'artiste au fond rose.
Kitschen, Friederike. "Cézannes Hüte - zu einigen Selbstporträts von Paul Cézanne." Pantheon, Internationale Jahreszeitschrift für Kunst 66 (1998), ill., p. 122.
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 86, 196, fig. 6, as Portrait de l'artiste au fond rose.
Cahn, Isabelle. "Chronology." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 148, ill. in color.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 118; vol. 2, p. 92, as Portrait de l'artiste au fond rose.
Chardeau-Botteri, Stéphanie. "Cézanne et Guillaumin." In Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 68, ill.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 222, ill., as Portrait de Cézanne.
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, frontispiece.
Notes
Some scholars have seen a stylistic and compositional connection with Camille Pissarro's self-portrait of 1873 (Musée d'Orsay) and his portrait of Cézanne from 1874 (on loan to National Gallery, London). Cézanne's pose in his self-portrait also resembles an etching of the artist by Pissarro from the same year. The copperplate is illustrated in Rewald (1996), p. 186, showing the etching in reverse.
Camille Pissarro, Portrait de Paul Cézanne, 1874. National Gallery, London (On loan from Laurence Graff OBE)
Camille Pissarro, Self-portrait, 1873. Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Record last updated April 6, 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 au fond rose, c.1875 (FWN 436)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=275 (accessed on July 1, 2025).
