The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
Catalogue entry
FWN 480
Portrait de l'artiste, d'après une photographie
c.1885
Alternate titles: Autoportrait; L'Artiste par lui-meme; Portrait d'homme; Portrait d'homme. Autoportrait; Portrait de Cézanne; Portrait de l'artiste; Portrait of a Man; Selbstbildnis
Rewald: (587) c.1885; Venturi revised: 1883–85; Venturi: (1519) 1883–87
Oil on canvas
21 5/8 x 18 3/16 in. (55 x 46.3 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3465, Cezanne huile portrait d'homme assis les mains appuyées sur le genou se détachant sur un fond vert, 55 x 46 cm (150 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 288, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Peyron 1885
Provenance
Exhibition History
Montross Gallery, New York, Cézanne, January 1–31, 1916. Thirty watercolors were also shown. The Galerie Bernheim-Jeune lent all of the works. (exhibition catalogue), no. 5, as Portrait of a Man, lent by Bernheim-Jeune.
Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland, Französische Malerei, November, 1920, no. 8, as L'Artiste par lui-meme, tentative identification, lent by Staechelin.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne, February 6–March 6, 1921 (exhibition catalogue; introduction by Wilhelm Barth). Three watercolors and a drawing were also shown, as well as facsimiles from the Marées Gesellschaft album, and photographs, no. 35, as Portrait de Cézanne, tentative identification, lent by Staechelin.
Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland, Französische Meister des 19. Jahrhunderts und van Gogh, February 18–April 2, 1934. Two drawings and six watercolors by Cézanne were also shown, no. 5, (dated 1884–88), as Selbstbildnis, lent by Staechelin.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Sammlung Rudolf Staechelin, May 13–June 17, 1956, no. 22, ill.
Musée national d'art moderne, Paris, Fondation Rudolphe Staechelin: de Corot à Picasso, April 10–June 28, 1964 (exhibition catalogue; introduction by Jean Cassou), no. 21, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste, 1883-87.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Impressionnistes: Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Degas, Pissaro, Cézanne, October–November 18, 1967 (exhibition catalogue), no. 3, as Portrait d'homme. Autoportrait, 1883-87.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne, June 12–August 31, 1982 (exhibition catalogue; preface by Denis Coutagne)
N.B. Some catalogue numbers differ from the original Liège exhibition, no. 17, ill.
N.B. Some catalogue numbers differ from the original Liège exhibition, no. 17, ill.
Musée Saint-Georges, Liège, Belgium, Cézanne, March 12–May 9, 1982 (exhibition catalogue; preface by Serge Fievet)
N.B. Some catalogue numbers differ from the forthcoming Aix-en-Provence exhibition, no. 17, ill. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 12–August 31, 1982 (exhibition catalogue; preface by Denis Coutagne).
N.B. Some catalogue numbers differ from the forthcoming Aix-en-Provence exhibition, no. 17, ill. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 12–August 31, 1982 (exhibition catalogue; preface by Denis Coutagne).
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993 (exhibition catalogue; text by Götz Adriani with an essay by Walter Feilchenfeldt), no. 36, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017 (French edition of catalogue) With contributions by John Elderfield, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey, Alex Danchev and Jayne Warman.N.B. This is the first of three venues. The catalogue numbers are different from the forthcoming English edition and therefore listed separately here, no. 29, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017 (English edition of catalogue) N.B. The catalogue numbers are different from the French edition and therefore listed separately here, no. 10.1, 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
"The Cézanne Show." Arts and Decoration 6, no. 4 (February 1916), p. 185, ill. as Portrait of a Man.
Cortissoz, Royal. "Paul Cézanne and the Cult for His Paintings." New York Tribune, January 9, 1916, p. 1, ill.
Mather, Frank Jewett, Jr. Nation 102 (January 13, 1916), pp. 58–59.
"A Representative Group of Cézannes Here." New York Times Magazine, January 2, 1916, p. 21, ill.
Wright, Willard Huntington. "Paul Cézanne." International Studio 57, no. 228 (February 1916), p. cxxxi, ill. (p. cxxx, quoted above).
Cortissoz, Royal. Personalities in Art. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1925, p. 298.
Vauxcelles, Louis. "A propos de Cézanne." Art Vivant (July 26, 1926), p. 486, ill.
Burroughs, Alan. "David and Cézanne, Presenting the Case of Thought versus Feeling." Arts 16, no. 1 (September 1929), p. 108, ill.
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. LXXIII.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1519, ill. vol. II as Portrait d'homme.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, fig. 48.
Myers, Fred A. "Self-Portrait of Cézanne." Carnegie Magazine (September 1968), pp. 225–27, ill. on cover.
"[Aquisitions des musées du monde entier]." La Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts (Paris; New York: [Gazette des beaux-arts]), no. 1201 (February 1969), p. 80, no. 326, ill as Autoportrait.
Brion, Marcel. Cézanne. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974, p. 78.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 8, ill. in color.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 290, 298, 299, fig. 150.
Müller, Hans-Joachim, ed. Die Sammlung Rudolf Staechelin. Basel: Wiese, 1990, p. 162.
Schmitt, Evmarie. Cézanne in der Provence. München and New York: Prestel, 1995, p. 102.
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. 587, ill. vol. 2 as Portrait de l'artiste, d'après une photographie.
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 161, 198, fig. 21 as Portrait de l'artiste, d'après une photographie.
Record last updated September 20, 2018. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. "Portrait de l'artiste, d'après une photographie, c.1885 (FWN 480)." The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. http://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=933 (accessed on February 22, 2019).