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 1775
Ambroise Vollard
1899
Alternate titles: Ambroise Vollard in Halbfigur, sitzend; Bildnis Ambroise Vollard; Portrait d'Ambroise Vollard; Portrait of Ambroise Vollard
Chappuis (1194); Venturi (1480): 1899
Graphite on paper
20 1/8 x 18 1/16 in. (51.1 x 45.9 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September 19–November 4, 1973, no. 87, ill. in b/w, catalogue note: p. 169, as Portrait of Ambroise Vollard, lent by Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. Traveled to: Hayward Gallery, London, November 13–December 30, 1973.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 69, ill. p. 165, as Bildnis Ambroise Vollard, c. 1899, lent by Fogg Art Museum.
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Modern Art for Harvard: Prints and Drawings Acquired through the Generosity of Frederick B. and Virginia H. Deknatel, May 31–August 6, 1995.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 178, ill. in color, p. 425, as Ambroise Vollard, 1899, lent by Harvard Art Museums, Fogg Museum, shown in Philadelphia only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 73, ill., as Ambroise Vollard, lent bt Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, MA. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1480, ill. vol. II, as Portrait d'Ambroise Vollard.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 56, fig. 154.
Neumeyer, Alfred. Cézanne's Drawings. New York and London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1958, no. 46, ill.
Mongan, Agnes. Great Drawings of All Time. New York: Shorewood Publishers Inc., 1962, no. 818.
Moskowitz, Ira and Thorson, Victoria. Great drawings of all time. New York: Shorewood Publishers, 1962, no. 100.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 235, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 1194, ill., as Ambroise Vollard.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 123, ill.
Gloor, Lukas. "Verzeichnis der Porträts von Ambroise Vollard." In Renoir, Cézanne, Picasso und ihr Galerist Ambroise Vollard, Gloor, Lukas, Koella, Rudolf, Velhagen, Rudolf. Heidelberg: Edition Braus im Wachter Verlag, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 105, ill. in b/w, as Ambroise Vollard in Halbfigur, sitzend.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 362; vol. 2, p. 233, as Ambroise Vollard.
Cézanne, Paul. The Letters of Paul Cézanne. Edited and translated by Alex Danchev. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson; Getty Publications, 2013, p. 32, ill.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 206, fig. 62.
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. 71.
Record last updated September 2, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Ambroise Vollard, 1899 (FWN 1775)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2889 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
