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 444
Portrait de l'artiste
c.1877
Alternate titles: Autoportrait; Autorretrato; Portrait de Cézanne; Portrait de l'artiste par lui-même; Portrait par lui-même; Self-portrait
Rewald (385): c.1877; Venturi revised: c 1880; Venturi (371): 1880–81; Rivière: 1876
Oil on canvas
10 3/16 x 5 7/8 in. (26 x 15 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895.
Chambre syndicale de la Curiosité, 18, rue de la Ville-l'Evêque, Paris, Cent ans de peinture française: exposition au profit du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, March 15–April 20, 1922, no. 27, as Portrait de Cézanne, lent by Comiot.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 4–August 4, 1953, no. 9, ill. frontispiece, lent by Musée du Louvre, Paris. Traveled to: Musée Masséna, Nice, France, August 8–September 12, 1953; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble, France, September 15–October 18, 1953.
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 47, pl. XX, lent by Musée du Louvre.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 20, lent by Louvre.
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, France, Hommage à Roger Marx 1859-1913: de Daumier à Rouault, November–December 1963, no. 21, as Autoportrait, c. 1880-81, lent by Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Musée Delacroix, Paris, Delacroix et l'impressionnisme, April–September 1970.
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, [Impressionist painting from a French museum], December 1, 1970–January 10, 1971, no. 88, as Autoportrait, 1880-81. Traveled to: Pushkin Museum, Moscow, January 25–March 1, 1971; Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, April 1971.
Pushkin Museum, Moscow, [French painting of the second half of the 19th - early 20th century: Impressionist painting from a French museum], January 25–March 1, 1971, listed p. 37, ill., as Autoportrait, 1880-81 (?)
Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Los impressionistas franceses, April 1971, no. 29, ill., as Autorretrato, c. 1880-81.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, Les Cubistes, May 4–September 1, 1973, no. 8, ill., as Autoportrait, 1880-81, lent by Musée du Louvre, Paris. Traveled to: Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, September 26–November 10, 1973.
Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne dans les musées nationaux, July 19–October 14, 1974, extended until October 28, no. 24, ill. in b/w, as Autoportrait, c. 1877-1880.
Palais de Tokyo, musée d'Art et d'Essai, Paris, Autoportraits de peintres, March 8–October 9, 1978.
Musée Saint-Georges, Liège, Belgium, Cézanne, March 12–May 9, 1982, no. 7, ill. c. 1877-80. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 12–August 31, 1982 (exhibition catalogue; preface by Denis Coutagne).
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne, June 12–August 31, 1982, no. 7, ill.
Musée Picasso, Antibes, France, Orsay avant Orsay: 26 chefs-d'oeuvre impressionnistes et post-impressionnistes, June 15–September 9, 1985, no. 8, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste, c. 1877-1880. Traveled to: Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France, September 19–November 11, 1985; Musée des beaux-arts, Lyon, France, November 21, 1985–January 15, 1986.
Musée d'Orsay, Grand Palais, Paris, Présentation des oeuvres récupérées après la Seconde Guerre mondiale et confiées à la garde des musées nationaux, April 8–May 4, 1997, MNR 228, p. 143, as Portrait de l'artiste, c. 1877-80.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, September 14, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 30, fig. 34, pp. 33, 337, as Portrait de l'artiste, shown in Paris only. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, February 17–May 13, 2007; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, June 19–September 16, 2007.
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, À qui appartenaient ces tableaux? La politique française de recherche de provenance, de garde et de restitution des œuvres d’art pillées durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale / Looking for owners: French policy for provenance research, restitution and custody of art stolen in France during World War Two, February 18–June 3, 2008, MNR 228, ill., pp. 136-137, as Portrait de l'artiste (p. 135 introductory note: Purchased by the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne). Traveled to: Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme, Paris, June 24–September 28, 2008.
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne et Paris, October 12, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 1, ill., p. 16, as Portrait de l'artiste, lent by Musée d'Orsay.
Musée Gustave Courbet, Ornans, France, Courbet/Cézanne: La vérité en peinture, June 29–October 14, 2013, no. 5, ill., as Autoportrait.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 18, ill.
Musée Bonnard, Le Cannet, France, Face à Face. L'Autoportrait de Cézanne à Bonnard - Self Portrait: Cézanne to Bonnard, June 26–October 3, 2021, no. 25, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste par lui-même.
Published References
Pissarro, Camille. "Letter to his son, Paris, Nov. 21, 1895." In Letters to His Son Lucien, Edited by John Rewald. New York: Pantheon, 1943, pp. 275, 276 ; French edition, 1950, pp. 388, 390.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, pp. 203, 207, listed.
Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, ill. opposite p. 12.
Bernard, Émile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne, Une Conversation avec Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1926, ill. opp. p. 14.
Fosca, François. "La Collection Comiot." L'Amour de l'art 8, no. 4 (April 1927), p. 119, mentioned.
Huyghe, René. "Les origines de la peinture contemporaine: Genèse et position de l'art moderne." L'Amour de l'art 14, no. 1 (January 1933), p. 14, fig. 15 p. 17, as Portrait par lui-même.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 371, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Cézanne.
Adhémar, Hélène. Catalogue des peintures, pastels, sculptures impressionnistes du Musée du Louvre. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1958, p. 22, no. 42.
Bazin, Germain. Trésors de l'impressionnisme au Louvre. Paris: A. Somogy, 1958, ill. p. 65, c. 1880-181.
Sterling, Charles, and Hélène Adhémar. La Peinture au Musée du Louvre, vol. I. Paris: Éditions des Musées Nationaux, 1958, fig. 259.
Adhémar, Hélène, and Anne Dayez. Musée du Jeu de Paume. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1973, listed p. 141, ill. p. 22, as Portrait de l'artiste, c. 1880-81.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 59, ill.
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 44, ill. in color.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 131.
Wetzel, Christoph. Paul Cézanne: Leben u. Werk. Stuttgart/Zurich: Belser, 1984, p. 39, ill. in color.
Compin, Isabelle et Anne Roquebert. Catalogue sommaire illustré des peintures du musée du Louvre et du musée d'Orsay. 3, École Française, A-K. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1986, p. 116, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste, c. 1877-80.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 114, ill. in color.
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. 385, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de l'artiste.
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 22, 196, fig. 7, as Portrait de l'artiste.
Lesné, Claude and Anne Roquebert. Catalogue des peintures MNR [Musées Nationaux Récupération]. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2004, p. 292, MNR 228, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste.
Jensen, Robert. "Vollard and Cézanne: An Anatomy of a Relationship." In Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 33, fig. 34, as Self-portrait.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 126; vol. 2, p. 95, as Portrait de l'artiste.
Coutagne, Denis. "Les 'Paris' de Cézanne." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 16, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste.
Machotka, Pavel. "I ritratti di Cézanne: il volto umano della grande pitura." In Cézanne: les ateliers du midi. Milan: Skira, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 84, fig. 52.
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. 35.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 229, ill., as Portrait de Cézanne.
Record last updated January 28, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de l'artiste, c.1877 (FWN 444)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=381 (accessed on November 25, 2024).
