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Catalogue entry

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
Norton Simon Art Foundation, Pasadena

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Auguste Pellerin, Paris;
Jean-Victor Pellerin, Paris
Wildenstein Galleries, Paris, London, and New York
I.H. Vogel, Philadelphia;
A.L. Vogel Spitzer, New York
Jane Wade, New York
Norton Simon Art Foundation, Pasadena (1968)
Exhibition History
1936c Paris
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.
1939d London
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 3, lent by Pellerin.
1959e New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 4, ill. lent by Spitzer.
1967 Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Arts, Philadelphia, The Frances Vogel Spitzer Collection, 1967.
1972–73 Princeton
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Selections from the Norton Simon, Inc. Museum of Art, December 3, 1972–July 17, 1973, no. 32.
2005–06 New York and traveling
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 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 196, listed, ill. p. 155, as Portrait, Pellerin.
Waldemar-George 1931
Waldemar-George. "The Twilight of a God." Apollo 14 (August 1931), fig. I.
Rivière 1933
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 13, ill.
Raynal 1936
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. LVIII p. 90.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 79, ill. vol. II, as L'Oncle Dominique.
Novotny 1937
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 2.
Barnes and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 5, listed.
Rivière 1942
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 13, ill.
Schildt 1946
Schildt, Göran. Cézanne. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1946, fig. 21.
Novotny 1947
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 2, as Portrait de 'l'oncle Dominique', 1865-67.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 7, listed p. 142.
Hess 1957
Hess, Walter. "Zum Bild des Menschen in der Kunst Cézanne." Die Kunst und das schöne Heim, no. 9 (June 1957), p. 335, ill.
Beucken 1962
Beucken, Jean de. Cézanne. New York: Viking Press, 1962, p. 36, ill.
Steadman 1972
Steadman, David W. "The Norton Simon Exhibition at Princeton." Art Journal 32, no. 1 (Fall 1972), p. 38.
Schapiro 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 56, ill.
Steadman 1973
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 1980
Herrmann, Frank. Selected Paintings at the Norton Simon Museum. New York: Harmony Books, 1980, p. 98, ill.
Ponente 1981
Ponente, Nello, ed. Cézanne e le avanguardie. Rome: Officina Edizioni, 1981, Via: pl. 1.
Therond 1987
Therond, R. "Cézanne: Le Solitaire farouche." Les Grandes Peintres 6 (Spring 1987), p. 4.
Gowing 1988
Gowing, Lawrence. Cézanne: The Early Years 1859-1872. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1988. Exhibition catalogue, listed under cat. no. 18, fig. d.
Norton Simon Museum 1989
Masterpieces from the Norton Simon Museum. Pasadena: Norton Simon Museum, 1989, p. 126, ill., as Oncle Dominique.
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. 102, ill. vol. 2, as L'Oncle Dominique.
Brettell and Eisenmann 2006
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, Morton, Rey 2017
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 65, fig. 24.
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. 23.
Société Paul Cezanne 2019
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 2020
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 April 20, 2024).