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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)
Catalogue entry
FWN 438
Portrait de Victor Chocquet (buste)
c.1877
Alternate titles: Portrait de Chocquet; Portrait de M. Chocquet; Portrait de Mr. Chocquet; Portrait de Victor Chocquet; Portrait of Victor Chocquet
Rewald (297): c.1877; Venturi revised: 1880–81; Venturi (375): 1879–82; Machotka et al: 1877
Oil on canvas
13 13/16 x 10 11/16 in. (35.2 x 27.3 cm)
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Edgar Degas, Paris (May 6, 1896);
Degas Collection, Galerie G. Petit, Paris, Mar. 26–27, 1918, no. 15, ill.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (March 27, 1918);
Bernheim-Jeune, Lausanne (December 31, 1918)
Rudolf Staechelin, Basel;
Rudolf Staechelin'sche Familienstiftung (on loan to the Kunstmuseum Basel until 1967).
Wildenstein Galleries, New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Va.;
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Exhibition History
1895 Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895, Degas buys.1920 Bern
Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland, Französische Malerei, November 1920, no. 7, as Portrait de Mr. Chocquet, lent by Staechelin.1921 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne, February 6–March 6, 1921, no. 33, as Portrait de M. Chocquet, lent by Staechelin.1936c Paris
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 40, as Portrait de Chocquet, lent by Staechelin.1956a Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Sammlung Rudolf Staechelin, May 13–June 17, 1956, no. 21, ill.1964a Paris
Musée national d'art moderne, Paris, Fondation Rudolphe Staechelin: de Corot à Picasso, April 10–June 28, 1964, no. 19, ill., as Portrait de Victor Chocquet, 1879-82.1967b Basel
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Impressionnistes: Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Degas, Pissaro, Cézanne, October–November 18, 1967, no. 2, ill., as Portrait de Chocquet, 1879-82.1997–98 New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, October 1, 1997–February 11, 1998, no. 114.2013–14 Rome
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne e gli artisti italiani del '900, October 5, 2013–February 2, 2014, no. 6, ill.2015 Winterthur
Sammlung Oskar Reinhart "am Römerholz," Winterthur, Switzerland, Victor Chocquet: Freund und Sammler der Impressionisten, Renoir, Cézanne, Monet, Manet, February 20–June 7, 2015, no. 16, ill.Published References
Alexandre 1918
Alexandre, Arsène. "Essai sur Monsieur Degas." Les Arts 14, no. 166 (1918), p. 21, ill.Marriot 1920
Marriot, Charles. Modern Movements in Art. London: Chapman and Hall, 1920, p. 201, ill.Gasquet 1929
Gasquet, Joachim, translated by Elsa Glaser. "Aus dem Leben Cézannes." Kunst und Künstler 27, no. 7 (1929), ill. p. 279 (erroneously titled Gasquet).Gasquet 1930b
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Berlin: B. Cassirer, 1930, ill. opp. p. 144.Raynal 1936
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. LXVII p. 99.Huyghe 1936b
Huyghe, René. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 47 p. 170, as Portrait de Victor Chocquet, 1877.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 375, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Chocquet.Rewald 1936e
Rewald, John. Cézanne et Zola. Paris: Editions A. Sedrowski, 1936, fig. 41.Cézanne 1937
Cézanne, Paul. Correspondance. Edited by John Rewald. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1937.Barnes and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 71, p. 195, ill. (analysis p. 338).Rewald 1939c
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 44.Lemoisne 1946
Lemoisne, Paul-André. Degas et son oeuvre, vol. I. Paris: Arts et métiers graphiques, 1946, p. 179, fig. d.Rewald 1948b
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, fig. 55.Rewald 1950a
Rewald, John. Cézanne. London: Phoenix House, 1950, fig. 39.Beucken 1955
Beucken, Jean de. Un portrait de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, [1955], p. 276.Badt 1956
Badt, Kurt. Die Kunst Cézannes. Munich: Prestel, 1956, p. 144.Rewald 1969
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), p. 53, fig. 12.Brion 1971
Brion, Marcel. Cézanne. Milan: Fratelli Fabbri, 1971, ill. p. 46.Schapiro 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 10.Cézanne 1976
Cézanne, Paul. Letters. Translated by Marguerite Kay. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1976, pp. 224–25.White 1984
White, Barbara Ehrlich. Renoir: His Life, Art and Letters. New York: Abrams, 1984, p. 60, ill.Near 1985
Near, Pinkney L. French Paintings: The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1985, no. 10, pp. 24–25, ill.Rewald 1986a
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, pp. 300–03, fig. 7.Rewald 1986d
Rewald, John. "Chocquet and Cézanne." In Studies in Impressionism, Edited by Irene Gordon and Frances Weitzenhoffer. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1986, p. 143, fig. 77, as Portrait of Victor Chocquet.Kendall 1988
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 71, ill.Distel 1989
Distel, Anne. Les Collectionneurs des impressionnistes: Amateurs et marchands. Paris: La Bibliothèque des arts, 1989, p. 129, ill.Müller 1990
Müller, Hans-Joachim, ed. Die Sammlung Rudolf Staechelin. Basel: Wiese, 1990, p. 162, ill.Dumas 1996
Dumas, Ann. Degas as a Collector. London: Apollo Magazine Ltd., 1996, fig. 51, ill.Rewald 1996
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. 297, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de Victor Chocquet (buste).Ives et al 1997
Ives, Colta, Susan Stein, Julie Steiner with Ann Dumas, Rebecca Rabinow and Gary Tinterow. The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, A Summary Catalogue. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997. Exhibition catalogue, p. 17, no. 114, ill.Cézanne 2011
Cézanne, Philippe. "Paul Cézanne: L'homme." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 29, fig. 5, as Portrait de Victor Chocquet, dated 1880-81.Benedetti 2013b
Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Gli artisti italiani e Cézanne." In Cézanne et gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 41, fig. 27.Warman 2015
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. 61, catalogue notes p. 154.Elderfield, Morton, Rey 2017
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 96, fig. 35.Elderfield, Morton, Rey 2017a
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. 37.Armstrong 2018
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 54, 1877.Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 197, ill., as Portrait de M. Chocquet.Cezanne 2021
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 39.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Victor Chocquet, c. 1875. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1943.274
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de Victor Chocquet (buste), c.1877 (FWN 438)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=295 (accessed on April 26, 2024).
