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 437
Portrait de Victor Chocquet
1876–77
Alternate titles: Bildnis Choquet; Le Portrait de Chocquet; M. Chocquet; Portrait d'homme; Portrait de Chocquet; Portrait de M. Chocquet; Portrait of M. Chocquet; Portrait of Victor Chocquet; Porträt des Herrn Choquet; Ritratto di Victor Choquet; Tête d'homme: Etude; Tête d'homme; Etude; Victor Chocquet
Rewald (292): 1876–77; Venturi revised: 1876–77; Venturi (283): 1876–77; Rivière: 1874 (1933); Cooper: 1875–76; Gowing: c.1875 (Edinburgh) and possibly 1876 (Burlington); Ratcliffe: 1875–77; Other: Novotny: 1876–7
Oil on canvas
18 1/8 x 14 3/16 in. (46 x 36 cm)
Signed at left in red: P. Cezanne
Vollard archives: photo no. 221, Annotated: Chocquet 1875
Private collection, New York
Provenance
Private collection, New York
Exhibition History
6, rue Le Peletier, Paris, Troisième exposition de peinture, opening April 4, 1877, no. 29, as Tête d'homme; Etude.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910, no. 44, as M. Chocquet, lent by MM. X [Bernheim-Jeune priv.]
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition rétrospective Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) au profit de la caisse du Monument Cézanne, June 1–30, 1926, no. 54, as Le Portrait de Chocquet, lent by Bernheim-Jeune.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cents ans de portraits français (1800–1900), October 15–November 12, 1934, no. 16.
New Burlington Galleries, London, Exhibition of Masters of French 19th Century Painting, October 1–31, 1936, no. 86, as Portrait of M. Chocquet, lent by Rothschild.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Honderd jaar Fransche kunst, July 2–September 25, 1938, no. 16, ill., as Portrait de Victor Chocquet, lent by Rothschild.
National Gallery, London, Nineteenth Century French Painting, December 11, 1942–January 17, 1943, no. 67, as Portrait de M. Chocquet, 1875, lent by Rt. Hon. Lord Rothschild.
Biennale Internationale d'Arte, Venice, Italy, Gli Impressionisti alla XXIV Biennale di Venezia, May 29–September 30, 1948, no. 38, ill., as Ritratto di Victor Choquet, 1875, lent by Lord Rothschild, Cambridge.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 37, ill. lent by Rothschild. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 15, (dated c.1875), as Portrait de Chocquet, c. 1875, lent by Lord Rothschild; shown only in London. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne in Philadelphia Collections, July 19–August 21, 1983, no number, ill., addendum.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., The New Painting, Impressionism: 1874–1886, January 17–April 6, 1986, no. 44, as Tête d'homme: Etude, Private collection, New York. Traveled to: de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, April 19–July 6, 1986.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 45, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, Cézanne & Giacometti: Paths of Doubt, February 20–June 29, 2008, no. 5, ill. p. 231, as Portrait de Victor Chocquet, lent by Private collection.
Sammlung Oskar Reinhart "am Römerholz," Winterthur, Switzerland, Victor Chocquet: Freund und Sammler der Impressionisten, Renoir, Cézanne, Monet, Manet, February 20–June 7, 2015, no. 15, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 20, ill. shown in Washington only.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 6.1, ill. shown in Washington 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.
Published References
L.G. "Le salon des 'impressionnistes.'" La Presse (April 6, 1877), p. 2, ce visage en pain d'épice qui se détache du cadre n° 29.
Laurent-Pichat, L. "Salon de 1877: III." Le Phare de la Loire (June 9, 1877), p. 2, La tête d homme qualifiée étude, est une plaisanterie [...].
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1913, pl. 68, as Porträt des Herrn Choquet.
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. Cézanne. With contributions by O. Mirbeau, T. Duret, L. Werth, et al. Paris: Editions Hollande, 1914, pl. XXIV.
Revista nova (Barcelona) Year II, no. 4 (2 May, 1914), ill. cover, as Retrat del colleccionista M. Choquet.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 114.
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. L'Art moderne et quelques aspects de l'art d'autrefois: cent-soixante-treize planches d'après la collection privée de MM. J. & G. Bernheim-Jeune, poèmes de Henri de Régnier , 2 vols. Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1919, pl. 11.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, p. 117, pl. (color) p. 116, as Portrait de Chocquet.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 137.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 38, ill. with erroneous owner; listed p. 201 with erroneous size and owner, as Portrait de M. Chocquet, Durand-Ruel.
Pach, Walter. Masters of Modern Art. New York: Viking Press, 1925, pl. 12 (comments p. 107).
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, pl. (color) p. 196, as Portrait de Chocquet.
Vauxcelles, Louis. "A propos de Cézanne [Hommage à Paul Cézanne]." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 37 (July 1, 1926), p. 485, ill., as Portrait de M. Chocquet.
Dormoy, Marie, translated by Margarete Mauthner. "Die Cézanne - Ausstellung bei Bernheim-Jeune." Kunst und Künstler 24, no. 11 (1926), p. 448.
Chamot, Mary. Review of Cézanne, by Julius Meier-Graefe. Apollo (December 1927), p. 260, ill.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, p. 55, fig. 20, pl. V.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XXVI.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne: 24 phototypies. Paris: Librairie de France, [1928], [pl. 10], as Portrait d'homme.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 45, ill.
Kahn, Gustave. "Art: Cent ans de portraits français: Galerie Bernheim Jeune." Mercure de France (November 15, 1934), p. 168.
René-Jean. "Cent ans de portraits français 1800-1900." Comoedia (Paris), October 17, 1934, p. 2, as M. Chocquet.
Hazama, Mosuke, Genichiri Adachi, and Kaziamasa Nakogawa, eds. Recueil important des oeuvres de Paul Cézanne. Vol. 1: Paysages, edited by Hazama. Vol. 2: Portraits et Nus., edited by Adachi. Vol. 3: Nature-mortes., edited by Nakogawa. Tokyo: Atorie-sha, 1935, vol. 2, Portraits et nus, pl. 1.
Joëts, Jules. "Lettres inédites: les impressionnistes et Chocquet." L'Amour de l'art 16, no. 4 (April 1935), p. 120, ill. 1880, Coll. Bernheim-Jeune.
Benesch, Otto. "Cézanne: zur 30. Wiederkehr seines Todestages am 22. Oktober." Die Kunst für Alle 52, no. 3 (December 1936), ill. p. 61, as Bildnis Choquet, c. 1877-78.
Besson, George (introduction). "Paul Cézanne: 1839–1906." Estampes. Paris: Braun & Cie, August 1936 (no. 4), fig. 9 p. 5.
Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1936, fig. 2.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 283, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Victor Chocquet.
Laver, James. French Painting and the Nineteenth Century. London: B.T. Batsford, 1937, fig. 95.
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), pp. 54 and 56, as Portrait de Victor Chocquet.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 61, p. 194, ill. (analysis pp. 323–24).
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 41, ill.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1946, p. 316, ill.
Bazin, Germain. L'Epoque impressionniste. Paris: P. Tisné, 1947, pl. 38, as Portrait de Chocquet, 1876-77.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 22, as Portrait de Victor Chocquet, 1876-77.
Jedlicka, Gotthard. Cézanne. Berne: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1948, fig. 18, as Portrait de Victor Chocquet.
Venturi, Lionello. Impressionists and Symbolists: Manet, Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Scribner, 1950, fig. 124.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 55, pl. V fig. 20, as Portrait of M. Chocquet.
Sargent, Winthrop. "Cézanne: The Great Paintings of a Frustrated Recluse Changed the Whole Course of Modern Art." Life 32, no. 8 (February 25, 1952), p. 80, ill.
Bernheim de Villers, Gaston. Un ami de Cézanne. Paris: Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1954, pl. [6], as Portrait de Chocquet.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 368, ill.
Badt, Kurt. The Art of Cézanne. Translated by Sheila Ann Ogilvie. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1965, cover, p. 167.
Leonhard, Kurt. Paul Cézanne in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Rheinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1966, p. 42, ill.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 70.
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), pp. 47, 49, fig. 10 p. 48.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 9, with comments.
"The Elusive Goal." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 75, ill.
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 42, ill. in color.
Bonafoux, Pascal. Les Impressionnistes portraits et confidences. Geneva: Skira, 1986, p. 122, ill.
Rewald, John. "Chocquet and Cézanne." In Studies in Impressionism, Edited by Irene Gordon and Frances Weitzenhoffer. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1986, p. 120, fig. 66, as Portrait of Victor Chocquet.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 97, ill. in color.
Distel, Anne. Les Collectionneurs des impressionnistes: Amateurs et marchands. Paris: La Bibliothèque des arts, 1989, p. 136, ill.
Cahn, Isabelle. "Cézanne portraitiste." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 44.
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. 292, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de Victor Chocquet.
Baumann, Felix A. "Beyond the Uniform Picture Surface." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 25, fig. 6, as Portrait de Victor Chocquet.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Sammler. Von Zola bis Annenberg." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel,
Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 166, ill.
Kropmanns, Peter. Cézanne: Eine Biographie. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2006, ill. between pp. 116 and 117.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 123; vol. 2, p. 94, as Portrait de Victor Chocquet.
Cahn, Isabelle. "Face à la critique." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 182, fig. 96, as Portrait de Victor Chocquet.
Warman, Jayne. "Chocquet und Cézanne – eine einzigartige Freundschaft." In Victor Chocquet – Freund und Sammler der Impressionisten, Renoir, Cézanne, Monet, Manet. Bern and Munich: Bundesamt für Kultur and Hirmer Verlag, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, p. 103, pl. 60, catalogue notes pp. 151–152.
Butler, Augustin de. "Renoir et Cézanne, 1865–1881." In Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 65, fig. 5.
Kendall, Richard. "Cézanne and His Early Critics." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 5.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 53.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 196, ill., as Portrait de Chocquet, installation photographs from 1910 exhibition, p. 83 and 1934 exhibition, p. 129, as well as photograph of work hanging in the Bernheim-Jeune residence at 107 avenue Henri Martin, p. 7.
Nagaï, Takanori. Truth in Panting: The Meaning of Cezanne's Practices for Modernizing Society. Tokyo: Sangesha Publishers Inc., 2022, pl. 15.
Record last updated March 24, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de Victor Chocquet, 1876–77 (FWN 437)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=290 (accessed on April 24, 2024).
