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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
David Mathews; © President and Fellows of Harvard College
FWN 474
Portrait de Jules Peyron
c.1885
Alternate titles: Jules Peyron; Portrait de Monsieur Peyron; Portrait de Mr. Peyron
Rewald (578): 1885–87; Venturi revised: 1885–86; Venturi (531): 1885–87; Rivière: 1885
Oil on canvas
18 1/4 x 15 in. (46.4 x 38.1 cm)
Vollard C stockbook: no. 7134, Tête d'homme, 46 x 38 cm
Vollard W stockbook: no. 339, Tête d'homme; huile, 46 x 38 [could be 35] (15,000)
Vollard archives: photo no. 36, Annotated by Cezanne's son: J. Peyron, 1885
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
[Alex Reid & Lefèvre, London (1935–36)]?
Alfred Gold, Berlin
Wildenstein Galleries, New York
Otto L. Spaeth, New York
Fine Arts Associates (Otto Gerson), New York
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Saint Louis (1954);
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA (1961)
Exhibition History
1936g New York
Bignou Gallery, New York, Paul Cézanne, November–December 1936, no. 15, as Portrait de Jules Peyron.1937 Detroit
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Cézanne, January 5, 1937.1937a London
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Cézanne, June 1937, no. 18, as Portrait de Jules Peyron, dated 1885–87.1938d Paris
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, Quelques Maîtres du 18e et du 19e siècles, 1938, no. 7.1939b Paris
Société des artistes indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, 50e exposition - Centenaire du peintre indépendant Paul Cézanne, March 17–April 10, 1939, no. 12, as Portrait de Jules Peyron, lent by Alfred Gold ("exhibited for the first time").1947b New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 39, ill. lent by Wildenstein.1948a New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, French Portraits of the XIXth Century, Summer 1948, no. 4.1952 New York
Fine Arts Associates [Otto Gerson], New York, Cézanne: Rarely Shown Works, November 10–29, 1952, no. 8, ill. lent by Spaeth.1956 Aix-en-Provence
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 32, ill. lent by Pulitzer.1957 New York and traveling
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Modern Painting, Drawing and Sculpture Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., April 9–May 4, 1957, no. 15, ill. Traveled to: Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 16–September 15, 1957.1999–2000 Tokyo and traveling
Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, Modern Art at Harvard, July 31–September 26, 1999. Traveled to: Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan, October 9–November 14, 1999; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan, December 2–27, 1999; Oita City Museum, Oita, Japan, January 6–February 6, 2000; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Japan, February 11–March 26, 2000.2017–18 Karlsruhe
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 50, ill.Published References
Meier-Graefe 1918a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 168.Meier-Graefe 1922
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 197.Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 213, listed (Peyron is called the receveur de l'Enregistrement à Gardanne).Meier-Graefe 1927a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. LXIX.Fry 1929
Fry, Roger. "Cézannes Udvikling." Samleren 6 (July, August, September 1929), p. 118, ill.Bourgeois 1936
Bourgeois, Stephan. "A Vivid Panorama of Cézanne." Art News 35 (November 7, 1936), p. 10, ill.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 531, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Monsieur Peyron.Vollard 1937
Vollard, Ambroise. Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux. Paris: Albin Michel, 1937, pl. 20.Rewald 1937a
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. 54, as Portrait de Jules Peyron.Hofmann 1960
Hofmann, Werner. Das irdische Paradies. Munich: Prestel, 1960, fig. 64.Gazette des beaux-arts 1963
"[Aquisitions des musées du monde entier]." La Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 1129 (February 1963), p. 43, no. 162, ill., as Portrait de Jules Peyron.Bernier 1967
Bernier, Rosamond. "Une Collection du Middle West." L'Oeil 156 (December 1967), p. 32, fig. 1.Jones 1985
Jones, Caroline A. Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums. New York: Abbeville Press, 1985, p. 86, no. 80, ill.Rudenstine 1988
Rudenstine, Angelica Zander. Modern Painting, Drawing & Sculpture Collected by Emily and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., vol. IV. Cambridge: Harvard University Art Museum, 1988, pl. 7.Cachin and Rishel 1995
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 547, ill., as Jules Peyron, 1885-1887.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. 578, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de Jules Peyron (image switched with R577/ FWN 473).Pissarro 2005
Pissarro, Joachim. Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–85. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 47, 48, fig. 38.Schmidt 2007
Schmidt, Bertram. "Picasso und Cézanne. Zur Entstehung der kubistischen Bildsprache." In Jahrbuch der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen in Baden-Württemberg 44, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Baden-Württemberg. Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2007, p. 96, fig. 11 (detail).Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 253; vol. 2, p. 166, as Portrait de Jules Peyron.Notes
Peyron was from Gardanne and a witness at Cézanne's wedding on April 28, 1886. At the time of the marriage he was thirty-two years of age and a Senior Clerk of contributions indirectes."
Record last updated October 26, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de Jules Peyron, c.1885 (FWN 474)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=564 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
