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 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 de l'artiste au fond vert turquoise; Portrait de Mr. Peyron; Portrait de Sieur Peyron (?) régisseur du Jas de Bouffan; 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)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 6–17, 1914, no. 2, as Portrait de Mr. Peyron, for sale.
Montross Gallery, New York, Cézanne, January 1–31, 1916, 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, 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, no. 5, (dated 1884–88), as Selbstbildnis.
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, 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, no. 3, as Portrait d'homme. Autoportrait, 1883-87.
Musée Saint-Georges, Liège, Belgium, Cézanne, March 12–May 9, 1982, no. 17, ill. 1883-87. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 12–August 31, 1982 (exhibition catalogue; preface by Denis Coutagne).
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne, June 12–August 31, 1982, no. 17, ill.
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Impressionism: Selections from Five American Museums, November 4–December 31, 1989, no. 10, ill. lent by Carnegie Museum of Art. Traveled to: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, January 27–March 25, 1990; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, April 21–June 17, 1990; Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, July 14–September 9, 1990; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, September 30–November 25, 1990.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 36, ill.
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, L'autre collection: hommage à Ernst et Hildy Beyeler, August 19, 2007–January 6, 2008, listed p. 278, ill. p. 20, as Portrait de l'artiste au fond vert turquoise, c. 1883-1887.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 29, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, 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.
"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.
[McBride, Henry]. "What is Happening in the World of Art." The Sun (New York), January 16, 1916, p. 44, ill.
Vauxcelles, Louis. "A propos de Cézanne [Hommage à Paul Cézanne]." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 37 (July 1, 1926), p. 486, ill., as Portrait de Cézanne.
Burroughs, Alan. "David and Cézanne, Presenting the Case of Thought versus Feeling." The Arts 16, no. 1 (September 1929), p. 108, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1519, ill. vol. II, as Portrait d'homme.
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. 56.
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, no. 1201 (February 1969), p. 80, no. 326, ill, as Autoportrait, 1883-87.
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.
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.
Novotny, Fritz. Paul Cézanne: Gesammelte Schriften zu seinem Werk und Materialien aus dem Nachlaß. Introduction by Gabriel Ramin Schor (editor), Agnes Blaha (assistance). Vienna: Klever, 2011, fig. 48.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 216, ill., as Portrait de Sieur Peyron (?) régisseur du Jas de Bouffan (installation photograph from 1914 exhibition, p. 102).
Smith, Paul. "Cezanne's Non-Constructive Line." In Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 15.
Nagaï, Takanori. "L'idée de l'anti-modernisation social chez Cézanne." Bulletin of Kyoto Institute of Technology 14 (February 2022), fig. 42.
Record last updated March 29, 2024. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de l'artiste, d'après une photographie, c.1885 (FWN 480)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=933 (accessed on July 9, 2025).
