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 449
Portrait de l'artiste
c.1877
Alternate titles: Autoportrait de l'artiste; Portrait de l'artiste par lui-même; Portrait de l'auteur par lui-même, nu tête; Selbstbildnis; Selbstporträt; Self Portrait; Self-Portrait
Rewald (383): 1878–80; Venturi revised: c.1877; Venturi (290): c.1877; Rivière: c.1880
Oil on canvas
24 x 18 1/5 in. (61 x 47 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Sonderausstellung Paul Cézanne, April 22–June 15, 1904, no number, as Selbstporträt.
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Salle Cézanne, October 15–November 15, 1904, no. 6, as Portrait de l'auteur par lui-même, nu tête, lent by Vollard.
1909b Berlin possibly
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XII. Jahrgang, III. Ausstellung, November 17–December 12, 1909, no. 29, as Selbstbildnis.Institut français, Mansion of Yusupova (42 Liteiny Avenue), St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, [Exposition centennale de l'art français, 1812-1912], opening January 15, no. 591, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste, lent by Theo. Behrens.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Cézanne-Ausstellung: Cézannes Werke in deutschem Privatbesitz: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, November–December 11, 1921, no. 16, ill., as Selbstbildnis, lent by Th. Behrens.
Secession, Vienna, 82. Ausstellung der Secession: Die führenden Meister der französischen Kunst im neunzehnten Jahrhundert., March 6–April 26, 1925, no. 81, as Selbstbildnis, lent by Baron Leo Koenig.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The museum's first loan exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, November 8–December 7, 1929, no. 3, ill., as Self Portrait, lent by Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Taste of Today in Masterpieces of Painting before 1900, July 10–October 2, 1932.
Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, The Nineteenth Century: French Art in Retrospect (1800–1900), November 1–30, 1932, no. 5.
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November 10–December 10, 1934, no. 8, ill., (dated c. 1880), as Self-Portrait, lent by Phillips Gallery.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Great Portraits from Impressionism to Modernism, March 1–29, 1938, no. 1.
Galerie Durand-Ruel, New York, The four Great Impressionists: Cézanne, Degas, Renoir, Manet, March 27–April 13, 1940, no. 5, ill.
Palace of Fine Arts, Treasure Island, San Francisco, Golden Gate International Exposition, May 25–September 29, 1940, no. 242, ill., as Self-Portrait, lent by the Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington D.C.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 38, ill. lent by Phillips. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 15, lent by Phillips Gallery.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 8. 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. 16, ill., as Self-Portrait, c. 1878-80.
The Hayward Gallery, London, Master Paintings from the Phillips Collection, Washington, May 19–August 14, 1988, no. 19, ill., as Self-Portrait, 1878-80. Traveled to: Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany, August 27–November 6, 1988 (Meisterwerke aus der Phillips Collection, Washington); Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, November 30–February 15, 1988 (Obras maestras de la Colección Phillips de Washington).
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 36. 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. 15, ill. shown in Cleveland and Houston only. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 25–May 7, 2000; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, May 28–July 30, 2000.
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, A Modern Vision: European Masterworks from the Phillips Collection, October 8, 2022–January 22, 2023, as Self-Portrait.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Up Close with Paul Cezanne, April 18–July 14, 2024.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cezanne au Jas de Bouffan, June 28–October 12, 2025, no. 61, ill., as Autoportrait de l'artiste, dated 1877–1880.
Published References
Duret, Théodore. "Paul Cézanne." Kunst und Künstler 5, no. 3 (1907), ill. p. 97, as Selbstporträt.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Paul Cézanne." In Impressionisten: Guys, Manet, van Gogh, Pissarro, Cézanne. Munich and Leipzig: R. Piper & Co., 1907, ill. p. 209, as Selbstbildnis.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 5.
Deri, Max. Die Malerei im XIX. Jahrhundert: entwicklungsgeschichtliche Darstellung auf psychologischer Grundlage. Berlin: Paul Cassirer, 1919, pp. 199–200, pl. 43.
Salmon, André. "La Captivité de Cézanne." Der Querschnitt 11, no. 7 (Christmas 1921), p. l, ill., as Selbstbildnis.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 138.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Zur Berliner Cézanne-Ausstellung 1921." In Ganymed: Jahrbuch für Kunst 4. Munich: R. Piper & Co., Verlag der Marées-Gesellschaft, 1922, ill. between pp. 272-273, as Selbstbildnis.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 209, listed.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Cézanne." In Entwicklungsgeschichte der modernen Kunst vol. 3. Munich: R. Piper & Co., [1924] (copyright 1915), pl. 494, as Selbstbildnis, c. 1880.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 42, as Selbstbildnis, c. 1880.
Waldmann, Emil. Die Kunst des Realismus und des Impressionismus. Berlin: Propyläen-Verlag, 1927, p. 492, ill.
Phillips, Duncan. "El Greco, Cézanne, Picasso." Art and Understanding 1 (November 1929), p. 98, ill., as Self Portrait.
Phillips, Duncan. "The Palette Knife: A Collection Still in the Making." Creative Art 4 (May 1929), p. xv, ill.
Matthews, Herbert L. "Canny Columbus of Modern Art: Ambroise Vollard." New York Times, October 29, 1933, p. 10, ill.
Ors, Eugenio d.' "Crise de Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 15, periode 6 (June 1936), p. 372, fig. 9, as Portrait de l'artiste par lui-même.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 290, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de l'artiste.
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "The Four Great Impressionists: Unfamiliar Works by Manet, Degas, Cézanne, Renoir at Durand-Ruel Galleries." Art News 38, no. 25 (March 23, 1940), p. 8, ill.
Laporte, Paul M. "Cézanne and Whitman." Magazine of Art 37, no. 6 (October 1944), p. 223, ill.
Goldwater, Robert J. "Art and Nature in the 19th Century." Magazine of Art 38 (March 1945), p. 107, ill.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 20, as Portrait de l'artiste, c. 1877.
Louchheim, Aline Bernstein. "Cezanne: Link in Art." The New York Times (New York) (April 6, 1952), p. 22, ill., as Self-Portrait.
Catalogue: A Museum of Modern Art and Its Sources. Washington, D.C.: Phillips Collection, 1952, pl. 68.
Badt, Kurt. The Art of Cézanne. Translated by Sheila Ann Ogilvie. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1965, p. 185.
Leonhard, Kurt. Paul Cézanne in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Rheinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1966, p. 81, ill. (detail).
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 107.
Phillips, Marjorie. Duncan Phillips and His Collection. Boston: Little, Brown, 1970, p. 169, ill. opp. p. 167.
Kirsch, Robert. "A Cézanne Self-Portrait." Issues: A Journal for Artists (Spring 1986), pp. 33–35, ill.
Arnold, Matthias. "Cézanne und van Gogh: Die beiden grossen Postimpressionisten: Ein Vergleich, II." Weltkunst 56, no. 2 (January 15, 1986), p. 135, fig. 45.
Stewart, Angus. "Master Paintings from the Phillips Collection, Washington." RSA Journal Vol. 136, No. 5384 (July 1988), p. 585, as Cézanne's self-portrait.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 121, fig. 67.
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. 383, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de l'artiste.
Helin, Saskia. "Cézanne in Hamburg." In Private Schätze: über das Sammeln von Kunst in Hamburg bis 1933. Hamburg: Christians, 2001, pp. 44-45, ill., as Selbstporträt, 1878-80.
Luckhardt, Ulrich. "Eduard L. Behrens und Theodor E. Behrens: Sammeln moderner Kunst in zwei Generationen." In Private Schätze: über das Sammeln von Kunst in Hamburg bis 1933. Hamburg: Christians, 2001, p. 39, ill. p. 40.
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, pp. 98–99, 196, fig. 9, as Portrait de l'artiste.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 120; vol. 2, p. 93, as Portrait de l'artiste.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Paul Cézanne, 22. April bis 15. Juni 1904." Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1901-1905. vol. 2, "Man steht da und staunt". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2011, p. 508, ill.
Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne abstraction faite. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2011, p. 249, fig. 179.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Kollektion Paul Cézanne: 17. November bis 12. Dezember 1909." Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1908-1910. vol. 4, "Ganz eigenartige neue Werte". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2013, p. 290, ill. there is no evidence in the Cassirer Archive that this work was shown.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, frontispiece.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 91, fig. 33.
Kitschen, Friederike. "Das Papierne Museum: Julius Meier-Graefe und die Vergegenwärtigung Paul Cézannes in Bild und Wort." In Julius Meier-Graefe: Grenzgänger der Künste, Becker, Ingeborg and Stephanie Marchal (editors). Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2017, p. 189, fig. 6 p. 189 (reproduction of ill. in Meier-Graefe 1918), as Selbstbildnis.
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. 34.
Lobstein, Dominique. "'La portée d'une révélation' La réception critique de l'exposition Cézanne au Salon d'automne de 1904." In Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 82, fig. 1.
Notes
Rewald (1996, p. 251) noted: "No precise date of execution can be established for this canvas; it may have been painted in either Paris or Aix. Its unusual monochromaticism does not link it to any other picture, but the small brushstrokes in the beard and other areas to which Cézanne devoted special attention seem to relate it to such landscapes as La Maison abandonnée, 1878–79 (113), Cour de ferme, c.1879 (129), Au fond du ravin, l'Estaque, 1878–79 (123), La Baie de l'Estaque vue de l'est, c.1876–79 (97), and particularly to the views of L'Estaque of circa 1879."
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de l'artiste, c.1877 (FWN 449)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=379 (accessed on July 14, 2025).
