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, 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, 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, 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 Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne, June 12–August 31, 1982, no. 17, ill.
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).
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 36, ill.
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.
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 [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." 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.
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 (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 June 17, 2019).