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 408
L'Oncle Dominique
1866–67
Alternate titles: L'oncle Dominique; Oncle Dominique; Portrait; Portrait d'homme dit l'Oncle Dominique; Portrait de 'l'oncle Dominique'; Uncle Dominique
Rewald (102): c.1866; Venturi revised: c.1865; Venturi (79): 1865–67; Rivière: 1864
Oil on canvas
18 1/8 x 15 in. (46 x 38 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3347, peinture à l'huile, portrait d'homme buste, 46 x 38 cm (100 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 347, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Aubert 1865
Provenance
Exhibition History
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 1, as Portrait d'homme dit l'Oncle Dominique, lent by M/M Pellerin; shown for the first time.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 3, lent by Pellerin.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 4, ill. lent by Spitzer.
Philadelphia Museum of Arts, Philadelphia, The Frances Vogel Spitzer Collection, 1967.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Selections from the Norton Simon, Inc. Museum of Art, December 3, 1972–July 17, 1973, no. 32.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–1885, June 26–September 12, 2005, no. 8, p. 84 (dated 1865–67), as L'Oncle Dominique. Traveled to: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, October 20, 2005–January 16, 2006; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, February 27–May 28, 2006 (Cézanne et Pissarro 1865-1885).
Published References
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 196, listed, ill. p. 155, as Portrait, Pellerin.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 13, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 79, ill. vol. II, as L'Oncle Dominique.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 5, listed.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 13, ill.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 2, as Portrait de 'l'oncle Dominique', 1865-67.
Hess, Walter. "Zum Bild des Menschen in der Kunst Cézanne." Die Kunst und das schöne Heim, no. 9 (June 1957), p. 335, ill.
Steadman, David W. "The Norton Simon Exhibition at Princeton." Art Journal 32, no. 1 (Fall 1972), p. 38.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 56, ill.
Steadman, David W. "A Major Resource for a Teaching Museum: Selections from the Norton Simon, Inc. Museum of Art." Princeton Alumni Weekly (February 6, 1973), p. 12, ill.
Herrmann, Frank. Selected Paintings at the Norton Simon Museum. New York: Harmony Books, 1980, p. 98, ill.
Ponente, Nello, ed. Cézanne e le avanguardie. Rome: Officina Edizioni, 1981, Via: pl. 1.
Therond, R. "Cézanne: Le Solitaire farouche." Les Grandes Peintres 6 (Spring 1987), p. 4.
Gowing, Lawrence. Cézanne: The Early Years 1859-1872. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1988. Exhibition catalogue, listed under cat. no. 18, fig. d.
Masterpieces from the Norton Simon Museum. Pasadena: Norton Simon Museum, 1989, p. 126, ill., as Oncle Dominique.
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. 102, ill. vol. 2, as L'Oncle Dominique.
Brettell, Richard, and Stephen Eisenmann. Nineteenth-Century Art in the Norton Simon Museum. New Haven: Norton Simon Foundation with Yale University Press, 2006, pp. 292–96, no. 79, ill., as Uncle Dominique.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 65, fig. 24.
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. 23.
Cezanne, Jas de Bouffan: art et histoire. Under the scientific direction of Denis Coutagne and François Chédeville. Lyon; Aix-en-Provence: Fage édition; Société Paul Cezanne, 2019, fig. 198 p. 204.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 203, ill., as L'oncle Dominique.
Notes
Antoine Dominique Sauveur Aubert (1817–?) was Cézanne's uncle on his mother's side. He posed for the artist on at least nine occasions and some in different guises.
Record last updated December 8, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Oncle Dominique, 1866–67 (FWN 408)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=64 (accessed on December 9, 2024).
