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Catalogue entry

FWN 1774
Autoportrait
1897–1900
Alternate titles: Portrait de Cézanne; Selbstbildnis; Self-portrait
Chappuis (1125); Venturi (1476): 1890–95
Graphite on paper
Image: 12 3/16 x 9 7/16 in. (31 x 24 cm)
Sheet: 19 5/16 x 11 5/8 in. (49 x 29.5 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art)

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Otto Wertheimer, Paris
Robert von Hirsch, Basel
Von Hirsch Collection, Sotheby's, London, June 27, 1978, no. 832
Private collection
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Va.;
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1995)
Exhibition History
1978 Tübingen
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 67, ill. p. 163, as Selbstbildnis, 1897-1900, lent by Private collection, London.
2012 Oklahoma
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Vernet to Villon: Nineteenth-Century French Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Art., 2012, no. 26.
Published References
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, p. 119, ill.
Meier-Graefe 1918a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 3 (detail) and cover.
Levy 1920
Levy, Simon. "Lettre sur Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 1, no. 8 (December 1920), ill. p. 286 (cropped).
Meier-Graefe 1922
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 3 (detail).
Bertram 1929
Bertram, Anthony. Cézanne. London: Studio, 1929, pl. 1.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1476, ill. vol. II (detail), as Portrait de Cézanne.
Rewald 1936e
Rewald, John. Cézanne et Zola. Paris: Editions A. Sedrowski, 1936, fig. 46.
Rewald 1948b
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, p. 197, ill.
Rewald 1950c
Rewald, John. The Ordeal of Paul Cézanne. London, 1950, ill.
Rewald 1959b
Rewald, John. Cézanne. London: Spring Books, 1959, p. 122, ill.
Andersen 1970
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 22, ill.
Chappuis 1973
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 1125, ill., as Self-portrait.
Venturi 1978
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 141, ill., as Autoportrait, 1897-1900.
Lévêque 1988
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 214.
Verdi 1992
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 199, fig. 176 (image, but not entire sheet).
Platzman 2001
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 205, no. 25, ill.
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 7; vol. 2, p. 23, as Self-portrait.
Record last updated September 30, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Autoportrait, 1897–1900 (FWN 1774)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2817 (accessed on May 9, 2024).