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Catalogue entry

FWN 428
Portrait de Gustave Boyer
c.1870
Alternate titles: Portrait de Boyer; Porträt Courbet
Rewald (176): c.1870; Venturi revised: 1868; Venturi (132): 1870–71; Rivière: 1873; Machotka et al: c.1871
Oil on canvas
18 x 15 in. (45.7 x 38 cm)
Vollard C stockbook: no. 7154, Tête d'homme. époque ancien, 46 x 38 cm
Vollard W stockbook: no. 338, Tête d'homme, 46 x 38 (5,000)
Vollard archives: photo no. 135, Annotated by Cezanne's son: circa 1870
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Galerie E. Bignou, Paris (June 11, 1937)
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (1940)
Exhibition History
1904 Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Sonderausstellung Paul Cézanne, April 22–June 15, 1904, no number, as Porträt Courbet, tentative identification.
1936g New York
Bignou Gallery, New York, Paul Cézanne, November–December 1936, no. 6, as Portrait de Boyer, lent by Vollard.
1937 Detroit
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Cézanne, January 5, 1937.
1938d New York
Bignou Gallery, New York, Masterpieces by 19th Century French Painters, April 11–30, 1938, no. 4.
1939c London
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Milestones of French Painting, June 1939, no. 1.
1946–47 Toledo and traveling
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, The Spirit of Modern France, November–December 1946, no. 53. Traveled to: Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, January–February 1947.
1949 Toronto
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Canadian National Exhibition, August 26–September 10, 1949, no. 4.
1954 Detroit
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, The Two Sides of the Medal: French painting from Gèrôme to Gauguin, September 28–October 31, 1954, extended until November 11, no. 96, ill., as Portrait de Boyer.
1957 Milwaukee
Milwaukee Art Institute, Milwaukee, Inaugural Exhibition, September 12–October 20, 1957, no. 63, ill.
1971 Halifax and traveling
Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, French painting, 1840-1924 : a travelling exhibition prepared by the Extension Services of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa,, March 22–April 14, 1971, no. 7, ill.
Published References
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 200, listed.
Breuning 1936
Breuning, Margaret. "Exhibition at Bignou Gallery." Parnassus 8, no. 7 (December 1936), p. 26, ill.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 132, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Boyer.
Hubbard 1947
Hubbard, Robert Hamilton. "Recent Acquisitions of the National Gallery of Canada." Art Quarterly (Summer 1947), pp. 229, 231.
Hubbard 1959
Hubbard, Robert Hamilton. The National Gallery of Canada: Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. Ottawa: University of Toronto Press, 1959, p. 4, no. 4550, ill.
Hubbard 1962
Hubbard, Robert Hamilton. European Paintings in Canadian Collections,vol. II. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1962, pp. xxii, 150.
Andersen 1964
Andersen, Wayne V. "A Cézanne Self-portrait Drawing Reidentified." The Burlington Magazine 105, no. 735 (June 1964), p. 285.
Sterling and Salinger 1967
Sterling, Charles, and Margaretta M. Salinger. French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. III. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1967, pp. 97–98.
Boggs 1971
Boggs, Jean Sutherland. The National Gallery of Canada. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1971, p. 40, fig. 50.
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. 176, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de Gustave Boyer.
Record last updated March 26, 2014. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de Gustave Boyer, c.1870 (FWN 428)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=183 (accessed on April 26, 2024).