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 504
L'Homme à la pipe
1891–96
Alternate titles: A Man Smoking a Pipe; L'homme à la pipe; Man with a Pipe
Rewald (712): c.1896; Venturi revised: 1890–92; Venturi (564): 1890–94; Cooper: c.1892; Gowing: c.1893 (Edinburgh)
Oil on canvas
28 11/16 x 23 5/8 in. (73 x 60 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Pigalle, Paris, Exposition Cèzanne, 1839–1906, January 4–February 7, 1930, no. 9, as L'Homme à la pipe, c. 1890, lent by Courtauld.
Tate Gallery, London, Samuel Courtauld: Memorial Exhibition, May–June 1948, no. 14, as A Man Smoking a Pipe, c. 1892.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 51, as L'Homme à la pipe, c. 1893, lent by the Home House Trustees. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Impressionnistes de la Collection Courtauld de Londres, October 1955, no. 12, pl. 43.
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 38, ill. lent by Courtauld.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 46, ill. lent by Courtauld.
Arts Council of Great Britain, London, Samuel Courtauld's Collection of French 19th Century Paintings and Drawings, July–August 1976, no. 11.
Takashimaya, Tokyo, The Impressionists and the Post-Impressionists from the Courtauld Collection, January 12–February 28, 1984, no. 12. Traveled to: Takashimaya, Kyoto, Japan, March 8–April 3, 1984; Takashimaya, Osaka, Japan, April 12–May 8, 1984.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Impressionist & Post-Impressionist Masterpieces: The Courtauld Collection, January 14–March 8, 1987, no. 27, ill. Traveled to: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 4–June 21, 1987; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, July 11–September 27, 1987; Art Institute, Chicago, October 17, 1987–January 3, 1988; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, January 30–April 3, 1988.
Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, Impressionism for England: Samuel Courtauld as Patron and Collector, June 17–September 25, 1994, no. 11, ill.
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Cézanne: Aufbruch in die Moderne, September 18, 2004–January 16, 2005, listed p. 232, ill. p. 167, as L'Homme à la pipe.
The Courtauld Gallery, London, The Courtauld Cézannes, June 26–October 5, 2008, no. 7, ill., pp. 94–95 (dated c. 1892–95), as L'Homme à la pipe.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Picasso, Cézanne, May 25–September 27, 2009, no. 38, ill., as L'Homme à la pipe, c. 1892-1895.
Courtauld Gallery, London, Cézanne's Card Players, October 21, 2010–January 16, 2011, no. 18, ill., as Man with a Pipe, c. 1892–96. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 9–May 8, 2011.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 46, ill. shown in London and Washington only.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 16.1, ill. shown in London only. Traveled to: National Portrait Gallery, London, October 26, 2017–February 11, 2018; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, March 25–July 1, 2018.
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, La Collection Courtauld: le parti de l'impressionnsime, February 20–June 17, 2019. (Exhibition catalogue: Serres et al 2019), no. 42, ill., as L'homme à la pipe, c. 1892-1896.
KODE Art Museums, Bergen, Norway, Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Courtauld at KODE Art Museums, July 16–October 10, 2021, no. 7, ill. c. 1892–96.
Published References
Zervos, Christian. "Idéalisme et naturalisme dans la peinture moderne, II: Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh." Cahiers d'Art, no. 10 (1927), p. 337, ill.
Charensol, Georges. "Cézanne à la galerie Pigalle." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 124 (February 15, 1930), p. 181, ill.
P. B. "Cézanne à la galerie Pigalle." Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 1 (January 20, 1930), p. 23, as Homme à la barbe.
Wilenski, R.H. "La collection Courtauld." Formes: revue internationale des arts plastiques, no. 10 (December 1930), p. 17, as L'homme à la pipe.
Alexandre, Arsène. "L'Exposition Cézanne à la galerie du Théâtre Pigalle." La Renaissance (Paris; New York), vol. 13, no. 1 (January 1930), ill. p. 75, as L'homme à la pipe.
Jamot, Paul, and Percy Moore Turner. Collection de tableaux français, faite à Londres, 20 Portman Square, par Samuel et Elizabeth Courtauld. London: [privately published], 1934, no. 22.
Catalogue of the Pictures and Other Works of Art at Home House, 20 Portman Square, London. London: Home House Trustees, 1935, no. 9, pl. IV, as L'Homme à la pipe.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 564, ill. vol. II, as L'homme à la pipe.
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 ...paysan au Jas de Bouffan ...
Rewald, John. "La peinture française du XIXe siècle en Angleterre." L'Amour de l'art 19, no. 8 (October 1938), ill. p. 331, as L'homme à la pipe.
Elgar, Frank. "Des splendeurs de la peinture française qui nous viennent de Londres." Carrefour: la semaine en France et dans le monde (November 2, 1955), p. 8, ill. p. 7 (detail), as L'homme à la pipe.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 111.
Cooper, Douglas. Alex Reid & Lefevre 1926–1976. London: The Lefevre Gallery, 1976, listed p. 100, ill. p. 101, as L'homme à la pipe, c. 1893, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London.
Geist, Sidney. "Cézanne: Metamorphosis of the Self." Artscribe, no. 26 (December 1980), p. 16, fig. 16 (see J. Rewald, [Letters], Artscribe, Mar. 31, 1981, p. 61).
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 161, 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. 712, ill. vol. 2, as L'Homme à la pipe.
Robbins, Anne. Cézanne in Britain. London: National Gallery, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 94, as L'Homme à la pipe, listed.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 268; vol. 2, p. 175, as L'homme à la pipe.
Notes
The individual presented here is also depicted in profile in two works on paper (FWN1766 and 1767), a head study in oil (FWN683), and the man at left in the three two-figure cardplayer series (FWN684–686).
Record last updated March 21, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Homme à la pipe, 1891–96 (FWN 504)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=690 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
