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 438
Portrait de Victor Chocquet (buste)
c.1877
Alternate titles: Portrait de Chocquet; Portrait de M. Chocquet; Portrait de Mr. Chocquet; Portrait de Victor Chocquet; Portrait of Victor Chocquet
Rewald (297): c.1877; Venturi revised: 1880–81; Venturi (375): 1879–82; Machotka et al: 1877
Oil on canvas
13 13/16 x 10 11/16 in. (35.2 x 27.3 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland, Französische Malerei, November 1920, no. 7, as Portrait de Mr. Chocquet, lent by Staechelin.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne, February 6–March 6, 1921, no. 33, as Portrait de M. Chocquet, lent by Staechelin.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 40, as Portrait de Chocquet, lent by Staechelin.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Sammlung Rudolf Staechelin, May 13–June 17, 1956, no. 21, ill.
Musée national d'art moderne, Paris, Fondation Rudolphe Staechelin: de Corot à Picasso, April 10–June 28, 1964, no. 19, ill., as Portrait de Victor Chocquet, 1879-82.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Impressionnistes: Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Degas, Pissaro, Cézanne, October–November 18, 1967, no. 2, ill., as Portrait de Chocquet, 1879-82.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, October 1, 1997–February 11, 1998, no. 114.
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne e gli artisti italiani del '900, October 5, 2013–February 2, 2014, no. 6, ill.
Sammlung Oskar Reinhart "am Römerholz," Winterthur, Switzerland, Victor Chocquet: Freund und Sammler der Impressionisten, Renoir, Cézanne, Monet, Manet, February 20–June 7, 2015, no. 16, ill.
Published References
Alexandre, Arsène. "Essai sur Monsieur Degas." Les Arts 14, no. 166 (1918), p. 21, ill.
Gasquet, Joachim, translated by Elsa Glaser. "Aus dem Leben Cézannes." Kunst und Künstler 27, no. 7 (1929), ill. p. 279 (erroneously titled Gasquet).
Huyghe, René. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 47 p. 170, as Portrait de Victor Chocquet, 1877.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 375, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Chocquet.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 71, p. 195, ill. (analysis p. 338).
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 44.
Lemoisne, Paul-André. Degas et son oeuvre, vol. I. Paris: Arts et métiers graphiques, 1946, p. 179, fig. d.
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), p. 53, fig. 12.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 10.
Cézanne, Paul. Letters. Translated by Marguerite Kay. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1976, pp. 224–25.
White, Barbara Ehrlich. Renoir: His Life, Art and Letters. New York: Abrams, 1984, p. 60, ill.
Near, Pinkney L. French Paintings: The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1985, no. 10, pp. 24–25, ill.
Rewald, John. "Paintings by Paul Cézanne in the Mellon Collection." In Essays in Honor of Paul Mellon, Collector and Benefactor, edited by John Wilmerding. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1986, pp. 300–03, fig. 7.
Rewald, John. "Chocquet and Cézanne." In Studies in Impressionism, Edited by Irene Gordon and Frances Weitzenhoffer. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1986, p. 143, fig. 77, as Portrait of Victor Chocquet.
Distel, Anne. Les Collectionneurs des impressionnistes: Amateurs et marchands. Paris: La Bibliothèque des arts, 1989, p. 129, ill.
Müller, Hans-Joachim, ed. Die Sammlung Rudolf Staechelin. Basel: Wiese, 1990, p. 162, 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. 297, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de Victor Chocquet (buste).
Ives, Colta, Susan Stein, Julie Steiner with Ann Dumas, Rebecca Rabinow and Gary Tinterow. The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, A Summary Catalogue. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997. Exhibition catalogue, p. 17, no. 114, ill.
Cézanne, Philippe. "Paul Cézanne: L'homme." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 29, fig. 5, as Portrait de Victor Chocquet, dated 1880-81.
Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Gli artisti italiani e Cézanne." In Cézanne et gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 41, fig. 27.
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. 104, pl. 61, catalogue notes p. 154.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 96, fig. 35.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. London and Princeton, N,J.: National Portrait Gallery Publications and Princeton University Press, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 37.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 54, 1877.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 197, ill., as Portrait de M. Chocquet.
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 39.
Record last updated April 6, 2021. 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 (buste), c.1877 (FWN 438)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=295 (accessed on December 21, 2024).
