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 451
Portrait de l'artiste au chapeau à large bord
1879–80
Alternate titles: Autoportrait; Autoportrait au chapeau; Cézanne; Cézanne au chapeau; Cézanne au chapeau noir; Cézanne par lui-même; Portrait de Cézanne; Portrait de Cézanne par lui-même; Portrait de Cézanne, en chapeau de feutre; Portrait de l'artiste; Portrait de l'artiste au chapeau; Portrait de l'auteur par lui-même, avec chapeau; Self Portrait; Vlastní podobizna; Zelfportret
Rewald (415): 1879–80; Venturi revised: c.1880; Cézanne fils: 1885; Venturi (366): 1879–82; Rivière: 1880; Cooper: c.1877; Gowing: c.1880 (Edinburgh)
Oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 20 1/16 in. (65 x 51 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 4176, Cezanne portrait au chapeau B[ernheim], 60 x 50 cm
Vollard archives: photo no. 203, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1885
Provenance
Exhibition History
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Salle Cézanne, October 15–November 15, 1904, no. 5, as Portrait de l'auteur par lui-même, avec chapeau, lent by Vollard.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Französische Kunst des XIX. und XX. Jahrhunderts, October 5–November 14, 1917, no. 11, as Portrait de Cézanne, en chapeau de feutre, lent by A.K[ann].
Société des artistes indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, Trente ans d’art indépendant: rétrospective de 1884 à 1914, February 20–March 21, 1926, no. 2874, as Portrait de Cézanne par lui-même, lent by Kapferer.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The museum's first loan exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, November 8–December 7, 1929, no. 2, ill., as Self Portrait, lent by Ivor Spencer Churchill.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Vincent van Gogh en zijn tijdgenooten, September 6–November 2, 1930, no. 121, ill., as Zelfportret, lent by Ivor Spencer Churchill, London.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, French Art, January 4–March 12, 1932, no. 516, as Portrait de l'artiste, lent by Lord Spencer, London; Commemorative Catalogue: no. 288.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 41, pl. I (dated 1878–80), as Cézanne au chapeau, lent Ivor Spencer Churchill.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 12, ill. lent by Churchill.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 22, ill. lent by Ivor Spencer Churchill.
Galerie Kaganovitch, Paris, Oeuvres choisies du XIXe siècle, May 22–July 5, 1950, no. 4, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste au chapeau, lent by Private collection, Switzerland.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 43, ill. lent by Bern. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Van Gogh's grote tijdgenoten, Summer 1953, no. 2, ill., as Portrait de Cézanne, 1878/83. Traveled to: Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, the Netherlands, Summer 1953.
Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland, Europäische Kunst aus Berner Privatbesitz, July 31–September 20, 1953, no. 16.
Galerie des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Bienne, Bienne, Switzerland, Chefs-d'oeuvre des XIXe et XXe siècles, 1953–54, no. 20.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 23, pl. I, as Portrait de Cézanne, c. 1880, lent by Musée des Beaux-Arts, Berne. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 28, lent by Kunstmuseum Bern.
Petit Palais, Paris, De Géricault à Matisse: chefs-d'oeuvre français des collections suisses, March–May 1959, no. 18, pl. 29.
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 14, pl. 11.
Orangerie, Paris, Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections suisses de Manet à Picasso, May 10–October 2, 1967, no. 88, ill. lent by Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bern.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 30, pl. 1.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 66, ill. shown in London and Philadelphia only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, Cézanne & Giacometti: Paths of Doubt, February 20–June 29, 2008, no. 13, ill. p. 15, as Portrait de l'artiste au chapeau à large bord, lent by Kunstmuseum Bern.
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 83, ill. lent by Kunstmuseum, Berne.
Published References
Duret, Théodore. Histoire des peintres impressionnistes: Pissarro, Claude Monet, Sisley, Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Cézanne, Guillaumin. Paris: H. Floury, 1906, ill. p. 172.
Bernard, Émile. "Erinnerungen an Paul Cézanne." Kunst und Künstler 6, nos. 10-12 (1908), p. 421, ill.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 208, listed.
Fegdal, Charles. "Trente ans d'art indépendant (suite)." La Revue des beaux-arts (Paris) (Mars 15, 1926), p. 1, as Cézanne par lui-même.
Salmon, André. "Le Salon des indépendants." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 29 (March 1, 1926), p. 161, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste.
"Onze illustraties." Amersfoortsch Dagblad: De Eemlander (Amersfoort), October 4, 1930, ill. p. 8, as Zelfportret.
Bazin, Germain. "La peinture française à l'exposition de Londres: Le XIXe siècle." L'Amour de l'art 13, no. 1 (January 1932), fig. 114 p. 39, as Autoportrait.
Jamot, Paul. "French Painting - II." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 60, no. 346 (January 1932), fig. B, pl. XLVI p. (57], as Self Portrait.
Hazama, Mosuke, Genichiri Adachi, and Kaziamasa Nakogawa, eds. Recueil important des oeuvres de Paul Cézanne. Vol. 1: Paysages, edited by Hazama. Vol. 2: Portraits et Nus., edited by Adachi. Vol. 3: Nature-mortes., edited by Nakogawa. Tokyo: Atorie-sha, 1935, vol. 2, Portraits et nus, pl. 7.
L'Art sacré: revue mensuelle. Special number, Cézanne. Paris, May 1936, ill. cover, as Cézanne au chapeau noir.
Huyghe, René. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 45 p. 169, as Cézanne par lui-même, c. 1877.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 366, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Cézanne.
"Cezanne's Paintings and Watercolors Exhibited in Fine One Man Loan Show at the Paris Orangerie." The Art News XXXIV, 39 (Aug. 15, 1936), p. 6, ill.
Slavíček, Jan. "Zprávy a úvahy: Paul Cézanne." Volné směry (Prague) vol. 33, issue 1 (1937), ill. p. 5, as Vlastní podobizna.
Vollard, Ambroise. Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux. Paris: Albin Michel, 1937, frontispiece.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 56, as Portrait de l'artiste.
"San Francisco Sees Cézanne's 'Little Sensation' in Great Exhibition." Art Digest 9, no. 20 (September 1, 1937), p. 6, ill.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 80, p. 205, ill. (analysis pp. 338–39, p. 338).
Lecuyer, Raymond. "Triomphe 1939 de Paul Cézanne." Le Figaro, supplément littéraire, Janvier 21, 1939, ill. p. 7, as Cézanne.
Vaudoyer, Jean-Louis. Les Peintres provençaux de Nicolas Froment à Paul Cezanné. Paris: La Jeune Parque, 1947, frontispiece.
Jedlicka, Gotthard. Cézanne. Berne: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1948, fig. 21, as Portrait de l'artiste au chapeau à large bord.
Rewald, John. "Cézanne's Theories about Art." Art News 47, no. 7 (November 1948), p. 30, ill.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, pl. I, detail.
Loran, Erle. "Cézanne in 1952." Quarterly (Art Institute of Chicago) 46, no. 1 (February 1, 1952), p. 13, ill.
Sargent, Winthrop. "Cézanne: The Great Paintings of a Frustrated Recluse Changed the Whole Course of Modern Art." Life 32, no. 8 (February 25, 1952), p. 77, ill.
Chamson, André (introduction) and François Daulte (preface). Art et Style. 50, De Géricault à Matisse: chefs-d'oeuvre d'art français des collections Suisses. Paris, 1st trimester 1959, ill. in b/w (n.p.), as Autoportrait au chapeau.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 475, ill.
Grünigen, Berchtold von. Vom Impressionismus zum Tachismus. Basel: Birkhäuser, 1964, p. 24, fig. 28.
Daulte, François. "Un siècle d'art français dans les collections suisses à l'Orangerie des Tuileries." La Revue du Louvre et des musées de France, no. 3 (1967), fig. 3 p. 146, as Autoportrait au chapeau.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 106.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, p. 23, fig. 18.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 46, ill.
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 14.
"Cézanne, una exposición excepcional." Información Cultural (Madrid), no. 10 (March 1984), ill. p. 3.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 105, ill. in color.
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, frontispiece.
"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), cover, p. 40, 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. 415, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de l'artiste au chapeau à large bord.
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, pp. 156–57, 197, fig. 12, as Portrait de l'artiste au chapeau à large bord.
Dittmann, Lorenz. Die Kunst Cézannes: Farbe, Rythmus, Symbolik. Cologne: Böhlau, 2005, pl. 14.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 127; vol. 2, p. 96, as Portrait de l'artiste au chapeau à large bord.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 107, fig. 37.
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. 39.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 226, ill., as Portrait de Cézanne.
Gloor, Lukas. "Der Bestand der Sammlung Emil Bührle: Illustrierte Liste aller 633 Käufe." In Die Sammlung Emil Bührle: Geschichte, Gesamtkatalog und 70 Meisterwerke. München: Hirmer, 2021, p. 264, no. 176, fig. 176 p. 265, as Portrait de l'artiste au chapeau à large bord.
Record last updated April 4, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de l'artiste au chapeau à large bord, 1879–80 (FWN 451)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=408 (accessed on April 18, 2024).
