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 394
Portrait d'Émile Zola
1862–64
Alternate titles: Bildnis Zola; Portrait de Zola; Zola
Rewald (78): 1862–64; Venturi revised: 1861–62; Venturi (19): 1861–62; Vollard: 1860; Gowing: perhaps May–June 1861
Oil on canvas
10 3/16 x 7 7/8 in. (25.8 x 20 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Pigalle, Paris, Exposition Cèzanne, 1839–1906, January 4–February 7, 1930, no. 38, as Portrait d'Émile Zola, c. 1860, lent by Vollard.
Bignou Gallery, New York, Paul Cézanne, November–December 1936, no. 1, as Portrait d'Émile Zola.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Cézanne, January 5, 1937.
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne et Paris, October 12, 2011–February 26, 2012, hors catalogue, fig. 9, p. 35, as Portrait d'Émile Zola, lent by Musée Granet.
Musée Gustave Courbet, Ornans, France, Courbet/Cézanne: La vérité en peinture, June 29–October 14, 2013, no. 26, ill., as Portrait d'Émile Zola, c.1862-64.
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 8, ill. lent by Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne at home, October 20, 2017–April 1, 2018.
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, Cezanne et les Maîtres, rêve d'Italie, February 27–July 5, 2020, no. 19, ill. lent by Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence.
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary, Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction, October 28, 2021–February 13, 2022, no. 5, ill.
Published References
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 81.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 83, as Bildnis Zola, 1860.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 195, listed.
P. B. "Cézanne à la galerie Pigalle." Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 1 (January 20, 1930), p. 23, as Zola.
Vollard, Ambroise. Recollections of a Picture Dealer. Translated by Violet M. MacDonald. New York: Dover Publications, 1936, ill. opposite p. 228.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 19, ill. vol. II, as Portrait d'Émile Zola.
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 12.
"Rejected in 1863. Newly translated: Zola's Story of the Salon des Refusés from L'Oeuvre." ARTNews 45, no. 7 (September 1946), p. 22, ill.
Adhémar, Jean. Emile Zola. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1952. Exhibition catalogue, no. 47, as Portrait de Zola, reproduction shown in exhibition.
Leonhard, Kurt. Paul Cézanne in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Rheinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1966, p. 111, ill.
Bonafoux, Pascal. Les Impressionnistes portraits et confidences. Geneva: Skira, 1986, p. 52, ill.
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Parisian Writers and the Early Work of Cézanne." In Cézanne: The Early Years. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1988. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 16.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 29, ill. in b/w.
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Paul Cézanne: The Bathers." In Paul Cézanne: The Bathers. Basel: Museum of Fine Arts, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, ill. 29 p. 53.
Sprang, P. "Le mystère de la collection Chlomovitch." L'Evénement du jeudi (December 1993–January 1994), pp. 46–48, ill.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 126.
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. 78, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait d'Émile Zola.
Mitterand, Henri. "Une fraternité d'artistes: Cézanne et Zola." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 35, fig. 9, as Portrait d'Émile Zola.
Dombrowski, André. Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, p. 113, fig. 43.
Mitterand, Henri. Paul Cézanne, Émile Zola, Lettres croisées, 1858–1887. Paris: Gallimard, 2016, fig. 2, dated 1862 or 1864.
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 9.
Notes
In an August 1861 letter to Baptistin Baille, Zola writes that Cézanne painted his portrait; the artist later destroyed it, however. According to Rewald, this "portrait may have been executed during Zola's stay in Aix, in the summer of 1862 or even somewhat later."
Photograph of Émile Zola by Étienne Carjat, c. 1862
Record last updated September 19, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait d'Émile Zola, 1862–64 (FWN 394)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=93 (accessed on October 7, 2024).
