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 439
Portrait de Victor Chocquet assis
1877
Alternate titles: Bildnis Chocquet; Bildnis Choquets; Bildnis Herrn Chocquet; Chocquet in an Armchair; Chocquet in his Study; Der sitzende Chocquet; Portrait de Chocquet; Portrait de Choquet [sic]; Portrait de M. Chocquet; Portrait de Victor Chocquet; Portrait des Herrn C., sitzend; Portrait of M. Chocquet; Portrait of Victor Choquet; Porträt des Herrn Chocquet; Victor Chocquet; Victor Chocquet Seated; Victor Chocquet seated in an Armchair
Rewald (296): 1877; Venturi revised: 1880–81; Venturi (373): 1879–82; Rivière: 1877; Vollard: 1877; Cooper: c.1877; Gowing: c.1877 (Edinburgh)
Oil on canvas
18 1/8 x 15 in. (46 x 38 cm)
Signed lower right in red: P. Cezanne
Provenance
Exhibition History
Bruno and Paul Cassirer, Berlin, III. Jahrgang der Kunst-Austellungen, Winter 1900/1901, November 2 - beginning of December 1900, no. 8, as Portrait des Herrn C, sitzend, lent by Durand-Ruel, not for sale.
Secession, Vienna, Entwicklung des Impressionismus in Malerei u. Plastik: XVI. Ausstellung der Vereinigung bildender Künstler Österreichs, Secession, January–February 1903, no. 59, as Porträt des Herrn Chocquet, lent by Durand-Ruel.
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Salle Cézanne, October 15–November 15, 1904, no. 23, as Portrait of M. Chocquet, lent by Durand-Ruel.
Grafton Galleries, London, Pictures by Boudin, Cézanne, Degas, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, January 16-February 18, 1905; extended until February 25, no. 42, (dated 1879), as Portrait of M. Chocquet, lent by Galerie Durand-Ruel.
Munich, Frühjahr-Ausstellung der Münchener Sezession, Spring 1909, no. 24, as Bildnis Herrn Chocquet, lent by Durand-Ruel, not for sale.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, December 1–18, 1920, no. 7, as Portrait de M. Chocquet, lent by Durand-Ruel.
Chambre syndicale de la Curiosité, 18, rue de la Ville-l'Evêque, Paris, L'Art français au service de la science française, April 25–May 15, 1923, no. 166, as Portrait de Choquet [sic], lent by Durand-Ruel.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition Paul Cézanne (au profit de la caisse du monument Cézanne), March 3–24, 1924.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The museum's first loan exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, November 8–December 7, 1929, no. 9, ill., (dated c. 1885), as Chocquet in his Study, lent by Private collection, N.Y.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Memorial Exhibition: The Collection of the Late Miss Lillie P. Bliss, May 17–September 27, 1931, no. 6, ill., as Chocquet in an Armchair. Traveled to: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, October 17–December 15, 1931; John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, January 1932.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 308, (dated 1877), lent by Bliss Estate.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Lillie P. Bliss Collection, May 14–September 12, 1934, no. 4, ill.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Modern Works of Art: 5th Anniversary Exhibition, November 19, 1934–January 20, 1935, no. 2.
Carnegie Art Institute, Pittsburgh, Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors from the Lillie P. Bliss Collection, March 13–April 10, 1935, no. 12, as Chocquet in an Armchair.
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, French Paintings from the Lillie P. Bliss Collection, April 23–May 19, 1935, no. 2, as Chocquet in an Armchair.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Great Portraits from Impressionism to Modernism, March 1–29, 1938, no. 4, ill.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, French Art of the Nineteenth Century, 1942, pp. 4–5.
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio, Masterpieces of Painting: Treasures of Five Centuries, October 1–November 5, 1950, no. 11, ill.
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, The Howald Collection from the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, 1952, no number.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 18, pl. X, as Portrait de Chocquet, c. 1877, lent by the Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbia. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
Orangerie, Paris, De David à Toulouse-Lautrec: Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections américaines, April 20–July 5, 1955, no. 1, pl. 65, lent by Columbus.
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 23, ill.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 17, ill. lent by Columbus Gallery.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 29, ill. lent by Columbus Gallery.
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, (Kunsthaus Lempertz), Cologne, Cézanne, Ausstellung zum Gedenken an sein 50. Todesjahr, December 1956–January 1957, no. 11, ill. lent by Columbus Gallery.
Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, The Image Lost and Found, May–August 1960, no. 6, ill.
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 15, pl. 10.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition Cézanne: Tableaux, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 1–August 15, 1961, no. 6, pl. 4.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Modern French Painting, April 11–25, 1962, no. 7, ill.
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, The Arts of Man: A Selection from Ancient to Modern Times, October 6–December 31, 1962, no. 66, ill.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Olympia's Progeny: French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings (1865-1905), October 28–November 27, 1965, no. 39, ill., as Portrait de Victor Chocquet, 1879-82, lent by The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Ohio.
Musée de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, La peinture française: collections américaines, May 13–September 15, 1966, no. 54, pl. 40, as Portrait de Victor Chocquet, c. 1877-1882, lent by The Colombus Gallery of Fine Arts.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, One Hundred Years of Impressionism, April 2–May 9, 1970, no. 58, ill.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 6, ill. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Faces from the World of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, November 2–December 9, 1972, no. 15, ill., as Victor Chocquet, c. 1877.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 16, ill. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee, Impressionists in 1877, December 4, 1977–January 8, 1978, no. 7, ill., as Victor Chocquet Seated, c. 1877, lent by Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts.
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, Paris in the Belle Epoque, March 1–April 6, 1980, no. 18, ill.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Paris Cafés: Their Role in the Birth of Modern Art, November 13–December 20, 1985, ill.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 15, ill.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 46, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
The Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, Faces of Impressionism, Portraits from American Collections, October 10, 1999–January 30, 2000, no. 14, ill. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 25–May 7, 2000; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, May 28–July 30, 2000.
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, Cézanne and American Modernism, September 13, 2009–January 3, 2010, no. 1, ill., p. 143, as Portrait de Victor Chocquet assis, shown in Phoenix only. Traveled to: The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, February 14–May 23, 2010; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, June 26–September 26, 2010.
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne et Paris, October 12, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 73, ill., p. 179, as Portrait de Victor Chocquet assis, lent by Columbus Museum of Art.
National Art Center, Tokyo, Cézanne: Paris-Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012, no. 66, ill.
Musée Gustave Courbet, Ornans, France, Courbet/Cézanne: La vérité en peinture, June 29–October 14, 2013, no. 29, ill., as Portrait de Victor Chocquet, c; 1877.
Sammlung Oskar Reinhart "am Römerholz," Winterthur, Switzerland, Victor Chocquet: Freund und Sammler der Impressionisten, Renoir, Cézanne, Monet, Manet, February 20–June 7, 2015, no. 17, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 19, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 6.2, 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.
Published References
Hevesi, Ludwig. "Wiener Brief: Der Impressionismus in der Secession." Kunstchronik: Wochenschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe Neue Folge XIV, no. 15 (February 6, 1937), col. 236, as Bildnis des alten Kunstsammlers Chocquet.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 108.
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Munich: Kurt Wolfe Verlag, 1921, ill. opp. p. 54, as Bildnis Choquets, dated 1877.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 128, as Bildnis Choquets, 1877.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 204, listed.
Denis, Maurice. "Le dessin de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 5, no. 2 (February 1924), ill. p. 39, as Portrait de M. Chocquet, (Coll. Durand-Ruel).
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 32, as Bildnis Chocquet.
Pène du Bois, Guy. "The Lillie P. Bliss Collection." Arts 17, no. 9 (June 1931), p. 603, ill.
Bulliet, Clarence Joseph. Art masterpieces in a Century of Progress, vol. I. Chicago: North-Mariano Press, 1933, pl. 107.
Klein, Jerome. The Lillie P. Bliss Collection. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1934, no. 4.
Joëts, Jules. "Lettres inédites: les impressionnistes et Chocquet." L'Amour de l'art 16, no. 4 (April 1935), p. 120, ill. 1877.
Olmenhove, van den. "Kunst: Paul Cézanne." Verf en kunst: maandblad van P. A. Regnault's verf-, inkt- en blikfabrieken (Surabaya) 4, no.10, no.11, no.12 (1935), ill. p. 6 (no.11), as De Heer Choquet [sic], ambtenaar aan een der ministeries.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 373, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Chocquet.
Goldwater, Robert J. "Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections." Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 139, ill.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 52, p. 193, ill.
Denis, Maurice. "L'aventure posthume de Cézanne." Prométhée: L'Amour de l'art 20, no. 6 (July 1939), p. 194, as Portrait de Choquet [sic].
Barr, Jr., Alfred H. Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1942, p. 30, no. 85, as Chocquet in an Armchair.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1946, ill. opp. p. 314.
Rewald, John. "Cézanne and Victor Chocquet." Bulletin of the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts 20, nos. 3–4 (Summer 1950), pp. 3–6, ill. (reprinted in Art Quarterly, Summer 1950, pp. 251–54).
Hofmann, Werner. Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). Munich, Vienna, Basel: Kurt Desch, 1953, pl. 11, as Der sitzende Chocquet, c. 1877.
Rousseau, Théodore, Jr. Paul Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1953, pl. 11.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 393, ill.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 71.
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), pp. 52-53, fig. 11; p. 87.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, p. 20, fig. 16.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 10 (with comments).
Reff, Theodore. "Painting and Theory in the Final Decade." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 46, ill.
Monneret, Sophie. Cézanne, Zola . . . La fraternité du génie. Paris: Denoël, 1978, ill. p. 75.
Monneret, Sophie. L'Impressionnisme et son époque: dictionnaire international illustré. Paris: Denoël, 1978, vol.1, ill. p. 137.
Reff, Theodore. "The Pictures within Cézanne's Pictures." Arts Magazine 53, no. 10 (June 1979), fig. 9.
Rewald, John. "Paintings by Paul Cézanne in the Mellon Collection." In Essays in Honor of Paul Mellon, Collector and Benefactor, edited by John Wilmerding. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1986, p. 302, fig. 8.
Rewald, John. "Chocquet and Cézanne." In Studies in Impressionism, Edited by Irene Gordon and Frances Weitzenhoffer. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1986, p. 141, fig. 75, as Victor Chocquet seated in an Armchair.
Distel, Anne. Les Collectionneurs des impressionnistes: Amateurs et marchands. Paris: La Bibliothèque des arts, 1989, p. 124, 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. 296, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de Victor Chocquet assis.
Shone, Richard. "London: Cezanne." The Burlington Magazine 138, no. 1118 (May 1996), fig. 40 p. 341, as Victor Chocquet.
Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 9, fig. 2, as Portrait of Victor Choquet.
Reff, Theodore. Review of The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, by John Rewald, in collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. The Burlington Magazine 139, no. 1136 (November 1997), p. 800, doesn't necessarily agree with the 1877 date.
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 165, ill., as Portrait de Victor Chocquet assis.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Zur Rezeptionsgeschichte Cézannes in Deutschland." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel,
Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 131, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 121; vol. 2, p. 94, as Portrait de Victor Chocquet assis.
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, p. 140, fig. 37, as Portrait de Victor Chocquet assis.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Sammlungen Paul Cézanne, Louis Corinth, […], 2. November bis Anfang Dezember 1900." Kunstsalon Bruno & Paul Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1898-1901. vol. 1, «Das Beste aus aller Welt zeigen». Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2011, p. 358, ill.
Assante di Panzillo, Maryline. "Salons, marchands et collectionneurs." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 179, ill., as Portrait de Victor Chocquet assis.
Distel, Anne. "Victor Chocquet – 'le plus grand collectionneur français depuis les rois.'" In Victor Chocquet – Freund und Sammler der Impressionisten, Renoir, Cézanne, Monet, Manet. Bern and Munich: Bundesampt für Kultur and Hirmer Verlag, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, p. 37, pl. 16.
Reinhard-Felice, Mariantonia. "Im Banne des Impressionismus – Victor Chocquet und Oskar Reinhart." In Victor Chocquet – Freund und Sammler der Impressionisten, Renoir, Cézanne, Monet, Manet. Bern and Munich: Bundesamt für Kultur and Hirmer Verlag, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, p. 25, pl. 9.
Warman, Jayne. "Chocquet und Cézanne – eine einzigartige Freundschaft." In Victor Chocquet – Freund und Sammler der Impressionisten, Renoir, Cézanne, Monet, Manet. Bern and Munich: Bundesamt für Kultur and Hirmer Verlag, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, p. 104, pl. 62, catalogue notes pp. 156–58.
Kropmanns, Peter. "Paul Durand-Ruel und Victor Chocquet – zwei frühe Föderer der Impressionisten." Kunstchronik vol. 69, no. 1 (January 2016), p. 25, fig. 3.
Lobstein, Dominique. "Biographie." In Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 354, ill.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 55.
Notes
Chocquet sat for Cézanne in the dining room of Chocquet's rue de Rivoli apartment in Paris. He was painted in a similar pose in Renoir's portrait of Chocquet, c. 1875 (Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Mass).
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Victor Chocquet, c. 1875. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1943.274
Photo: Imaging Department; © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de Victor Chocquet assis, 1877 (FWN 439)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=294 (accessed on March 17, 2025).
