Catalogue entry

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)

Vollard archives: photo no. 540

Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence (inv. 2011.2.1)

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Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris

Erich Chlomovitch, Paris and Belgrade;

Chlomovitch Collection, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Mar. 19–20, 1981, no. 182; sale cancelled

Heirs of Ambroise Vollard, Paris;

Sotheby's, Paris, June 29, 2010, no. 31, ill.; bought in

Private collection, Paris

Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence

Exhibition History

1930a Paris

Galerie Pigalle, Paris, Exposition Cèzanne, 1839–1906, January 4–February 7, 1930, no. 38, as Portrait d'Émile Zola, c. 1860, lent by Vollard.

1936g New York

Bignou Gallery, New York, Paul Cézanne, November–December 1936, no. 1, as Portrait d'Émile Zola.

1937 Detroit

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Cézanne, January 5, 1937.

2011–12 Paris

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.

2013 Ornans

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.

2017 Martigny

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.

2017–18 Aix-en-Provence

Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne at home, October 20, 2017–April 1, 2018.

2020 Paris

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.

2021–22 Budapest

Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary, Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction, October 28, 2021–February 13, 2022, no. 5, ill.

Published References

Vollard 1914

Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 43, as Portrait de Zola.

Gregg 1915

Gregg, Frederick James. "Paul Cézanne: At Last." Vanity Fair (December 1915), p. 58, ill.

Meier-Graefe 1918a

Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 81.

Zeisho 1921

Zeisho, Atzouji. Paul Cézanne. Tokyo: Rakuyodo, Taisho, 1921, fig. 19.

Meier-Graefe 1922

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 1923

Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 195, listed.

Fry 1929

Fry, Roger. "Cézannes Udvikling." Samleren 6 (July, August, September 1929), p. 98, ill.

Neugass 1930

Neugass, Fritz. "Paul Cézanne." Der Cicerone 22 , no. 4 (1930), p. 105, c. 1860.

P. B. 1930

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.

Mack 1935

Mack, Gerstle. Paul Cézanne. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935, fig. 10.

Vollard 1936

Vollard, Ambroise. Recollections of a Picture Dealer. Translated by Violet M. MacDonald. New York: Dover Publications, 1936, ill. opposite p. 228.

Venturi 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 19, ill. vol. II, as Portrait d'Émile Zola.

Rewald 1936e

Rewald, John. Cézanne et Zola. Paris: Editions A. Sedrowski, 1936, fig. 6.

Rewald 1939c

Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 12.

Art News 1946

"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.

Dorival 1948

Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pp. 19, 133.

Rewald 1948b

Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, fig. 19.

Rewald 1950a

Rewald, John. Cézanne. London: Phoenix House, 1950, fig. 18.

Adhémar 1952

Adhémar, Jean. Emile Zola. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1952. Exhibition catalogue, no. 47, as Portrait de Zola, reproduction shown in exhibition.

Leonhard 1966

Leonhard, Kurt. Paul Cézanne in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Rheinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1966, p. 111, ill.

Venturi 1978

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 13, ill.

Bonafoux 1986

Bonafoux, Pascal. Les Impressionnistes portraits et confidences. Geneva: Skira, 1986, p. 52, ill.

Rewald 1986b

Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, pp. 33–34, ill.

Krumrine 1988

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 1988

Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 29, ill. in b/w.

Krumrine 1989b

Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Paul Cézanne: The Bathers." In Paul Cézanne: The Bathers. Basel: Museum of Fine Arts, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, ill. 29 p. 53.

Naubert-Riser 1992

Naubert-Riser, Constance. Cézanne. London: Studio Editions, 1994, p. 7.

Verdi 1992

Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 23, fig. 10.

Sprang 1993–94

Sprang, P. "Le mystère de la collection Chlomovitch." L'Evénement du jeudi (December 1993–January 1994), pp. 46–48, ill.

Bonafoux 1995

Bonafoux, Pascal. Cézanne: portrait. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 22, ill.

Coutagne et al. 1996

Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 126.

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. 78, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait d'Émile Zola.

Mitterand 2011

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 2013

Dombrowski, André. Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, p. 113, fig. 43.

Mitterand 2016

Mitterand, Henri. Paul Cézanne, Émile Zola, Lettres croisées, 1858–1887. Paris: Gallimard, 2016, fig. 2, dated 1862 or 1864.

Cezanne 2021

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 April 24, 2024).