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 478
Cezanne au chapeau melon, esquisse
1885–86
Alternate titles: Cézanne au chapeau melon; Portrait de Cézanne; Portrait of the Artist in a Bowler Hat
Rewald (584): 1885–86; Venturi revised: 1886–88; Venturi (514): 1883–87
Oil on canvas
17 1/2 x 14 in. (44.5 x 35.5 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Armory of the Sixty-Ninth Regiment, New York, International Exhibition of Modern Art [Armory Show], February 17–March 15, 1913, no. 1071, as Portrait de Cézanne, lent by Stephan Bourgeois. Traveled to: Art Institute, Chicago, March 24–April 15, 1913; Copley Hall, Boston, April 28–May 18, 1913.
Copley Society of Boston, Copley Hall, Boston, Armory Show, April 28–May 19, 1913, no. 25.
S. Bourgeois Galleries, New York, Exposition de tableaux, Anciens et modernes, 1914, no number, p. 19.
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark, Franske Kunst, July–October 1945, no. 50.
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark, French and Danish Paintings, 1958, no. 16.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Cézanne i blickpunkten, October 17, 1997–January 11, 1998, no. 1, ill., pp. 28–29 (dated 1886–87).
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 13, ill., as Cezanne au chapeau melon, esquisse. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, Cézanne & Giacometti: Paths of Doubt, February 20–June 29, 2008, no. 22, ill. p. 58, as Cezanne au chapeau melon, esquisse, lent by Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek, Copenhagen.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 31, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 10.2, ill. shown in Paris and London only. Traveled to: National Portrait Gallery, London, October 26, 2017–February 11, 2018; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, March 25–July 1, 2018.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 40, ill. catalogued, but not shown. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Rewald, John. "Iconographie de Cézanne: vu par lui-même." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 9 p. 160, as Cézanne au chapeau melon.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 514, ill. vol. II, as Cézanne au chapeau melon.
Catalogue: French and Danish Paintings. Copenhagen: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 1958, no. 868, p. 27, ill.
Brown, Milton. The Story of the Armory Show. New York: J.H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1963, no. 107.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 106.
Rostrup, Haavard. "Studier i fransk portraetmaleri Cézanne." Meddelelser fra Ny Carlesberg Glyptotek 26 (1969), p. 11, ill.
Nørregard-Nielsen, Hans Edvard. "Some French Portraits in the Glyptotek." Apollo (London) 113, no. 232 (June 1981), pl. IV, p. 375, as Portrait of the Artist in a Bowler Hat, c. 1883-87.
Bonafoux, Pascal. Les Impressionnistes portraits et confidences. Geneva: Skira, 1986, p. 154, ill.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, cover, p. 107, ill. in color.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 173, 177, fig. 100.
Asmussen, Marianne. Wilhelm Hansen's Original French Connection at Ordrupgaard. Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1993, no. 92, ill.
Dossier de l'art. no. 25, Cézanne. Dijon: Editions Faton, September - October 1995, ill. back cover.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 111, ill.
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. 584, ill. vol. 2, as Cezanne au chapeau melon, esquisse .
Benesch, Evelyn. "From the Incomplete to the Unfinished: Realisation in the Work of Paul Cézanne." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 51, fig. 12, as Cezanne au chapeau melon, esquisse .
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, pp. 168, 198, fig. 19, as Cezanne au chapeau melon, esquisse .
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 19, fig. 1.3, as Cezanne au chapeau melon, esquisse .
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 189; vol. 2, p. 129, as Cezanne au chapeau melon, esquisse .
Record last updated May 6, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Cezanne au chapeau melon, esquisse, 1885–86 (FWN 478)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=951 (accessed on April 20, 2024).
