Catalogue entry

FWN 390

Portrait de Paul Cezanne

1862–64

Alternate titles: Auto-Portrait; Portrait de Cézanne par lui-même; Portrait de Paul Cézanne; Self-Portrait

Rewald (72): c.1862–64; Venturi revised: c.1861; Venturi (18): 1858–61; Rivière: 1862; Gowing: (London) c.1861–62; Ratcliffe: possibly 1861; Reff: 1861 or later

Oil on canvas

17 5/16 x 14 5/8 in. (44 x 37 cm)

Private collection, New York

Keywords

People
Paul Cezanne:
- self-portrait / autoportrait »
Technique and Condition:
- copy after a photograph »

Provenance

Paul Cézanne fils, Paris

Auguste Pellerin, Paris;

M. et Mme René Lecomte, Paris;

Private collection;

Pellerin Collection, Sotheby's, New York, Nov. 13, 1997, no. 107, ill.; bought in

Pellerin Collection, Sotheby's, New York, May 11, 2000, no. 118, ill.

Private collection, New York

Exhibition History

1939 Lyon

Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 1, pl. I, lent by Lecomte.

1952–53 Paris

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Emile Zola: exposition organisée pour le cinquantième anniversaire de sa mort, December 12, 1952–March 1, 1953, no. 39, as Portrait de Cézanne par lui-même, c. 1858, lent by Private collection.

1954 Paris

Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 1, lent by private collection, Paris.

1988–89a London and traveling

Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 2, ill. Traveled to: Musée d'Orsay, Cézanne: les années de jeunesse 1859-1872, Paris, September 19, 1988–January 1, 1989; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., January 29–April 30, 1989.

2011–12a New York

Neue Galerie, New York, The Ronald S. Lauder Collection: Selections from the 3rd Century BC to the 20th Century, October 27, 2011–April 2, 2012, p. 232, pl. 96.

2017 Paris

Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 71, ill.

2017–18 Paris and traveling

Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 1.1, ill. Traveled to: National Portrait Gallery, London, October 26, 2017–February 11, 2018; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, March 25–July 1, 2018.

Published References

Wedderkop 1922a

Wedderkop, Hans von. "Paul Cézanne." Der Cicerone 14, no. 16 (1922), ill. p. 683.

Wedderkop 1922b

Wedderkop, Harro von. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1922, ill.

Rivière 1923

Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 196, listed.

Venturi 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 18, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Paul Cézanne.

Rewald 1936e

Rewald, John. Cézanne et Zola. Paris: Editions A. Sedrowski, 1936, fig. 4 (ill. with photograph after which it was presumably painted).

Novotny 1938

Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, p. 101, note 94.

Rewald 1939c

Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 10.

Bazin 1947

Bazin, Germain. L'Epoque impressionniste. Paris: P. Tisné, 1947, pl. 18, as Auto-Portrait, 1860-61.

Dorival 1948

Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 1, listed p. 141.

Rewald 1948b

Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, fig. 10.

Rewald 1950a

Rewald, John. Cézanne. London: Phoenix House, 1950, fig. 2.

Beucken 1962

Beucken, Jean de. Cézanne. New York: Viking Press, 1962, p. 17, ill.

Leonhard 1966

Leonhard, Kurt. Paul Cézanne in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Rheinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1966, p. 78, ill.

Pool 1967

Pool, Phoebe. Impressionism. New York: Praeger, 1967, pl. 7, as Self-Portrait, dated 1858–61.

Murphy 1968

Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 9.

Schapiro 1973

Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 56, ill.

Elgar 1975

Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 6.

Gasquet 1991

Gasquet, Joachim. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne. Translated by C. Pemberton. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991, p. 58, ill.

Verdi 1992

Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 24, fig. 11.

Bonafoux 1995

Bonafoux, Pascal. Cézanne: portrait. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 16, ill.

Cachin and Rishel 1995

Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 146, fig.1

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. 72, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de Paul Cézanne.

Reff 1997a

Reff, Theodore. Review of The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, by John Rewald, in collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. The Burlington Magazine 139, no. 1136 (November 1997), p. 800, dates the painting 1861 or later.

Kitschen 1998

Kitschen, Friederike. "Cézannes Hüte - zu einigen Selbstporträts von Paul Cézanne." Pantheon, Internationale Jahreszeitschrift für Kunst 66 (1998), ill., p. 120 (with a photograph of the artist, dated 1861).

Lewis 2000

Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 40, fig. 15.

Freudenberg 2001

Freudenberg, Inken. Der Zweifler Cézanne. Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg, 2001, pl. 6.

Platzman 2001

Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 27, 195, fig. 1, as Portrait de Paul Cézanne, dated 1862–64.

Athanassoglou-Kallmyer 2003

Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 16, fig. 1.1, as Portrait de Paul Cézanne.

Société Paul Cézanne 2005

Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 49, ill., as Self-Portrait.

Machotka 2008

Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 51; vol. 2, p. 54, as Portrait de Paul Cézanne.

Lauder 2011

Lauder, Ronald S. The Ronald S. Lauder Collection: Selections from the 3rd Century BC to the 20th Century, Germany, Austria, and France. Munich and London and New York: Prestel, 2011, p. 232, pl. 96.

Elderfield, Morton, Rey 2017

Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 47, fig. 19.

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. 190 p. 198.

Nagaï 2022

Nagaï, Takanori. "L'idée de l'anti-modernisation social chez Cézanne." Bulletin of Kyoto Institute of Technology 14 (February 2022), fig. 41.

Notes

This work was probably executed after a circa 1861 photograph.

Photograph of Paul Cézanne, c. 1861

Photo: John Rewald Papers. National Gallery of Art, Gallery Archives

Record last updated October 25, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de Paul Cezanne, 1862–64 (FWN 390)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=7 (accessed on April 16, 2024).