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Catalogue entry

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)

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Camille Pissarro, Paris (Nov. 19, 1895)
Octave Mirbeau, Paris;
Mirbeau Collection, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, Feb. 24, 1919, no. 10
Charles Comiot, Paris
Jean Dieterle, Paris
André Schoeller, Paris (Nov. 1941)
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne (bought from Schoeller in 1941, inv. WRM 2656)
Musée du Louvre, Paris (allocated by the Office des Biens et Intérêts privés in 1950; Musées Nationaux Récupération);
Musée du Louvre, galerie du Jeu de Paume, Paris (1951);
Musée d'Orsay, Paris (1986)
Exhibition History
1895 Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895.
1922c Paris
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.
1953 Aix-en-Provence and traveling
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.
1954 Paris
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 47, pl. XX, lent by Musée du Louvre.
1956 Aix-en-Provence
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.
1963 Nancy
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.
1970 Paris
Musée Delacroix, Paris, Delacroix et l'impressionnisme, April–September 1970.
1970–71 Leningrad and traveling
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.
1971 Moscow
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 (?)
1971 Madrid
Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Los impressionistas franceses, April 1971, no. 29, ill., as Autorretrato, c. 1880-81.
1973 Bordeaux and traveling
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.
1974b Paris
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.
1978 Paris
Palais de Tokyo, musée d'Art et d'Essai, Paris, Autoportraits de peintres, March 8–October 9, 1978.
1982 Liège and traveling
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).
1982 Aix-en-Provence
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne, June 12–August 31, 1982, no. 7, ill.
1985–86 Antibes and traveling
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.
1997b Paris
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.
2006–07 New York and traveling
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.
2008 Jerusalem and traveling
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.
2011–12 Paris
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.
2013 Ornans
Musée Gustave Courbet, Ornans, France, Courbet/Cézanne: La vérité en peinture, June 29–October 14, 2013, no. 5, ill., as Autoportrait.
2017 Paris
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 18, ill.
2021 Le Cannet
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 1895
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 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, pp. 203, 207, listed.
Salmon 1923
Salmon, André. Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Stock, 1923, pl. 15.
Bernard 1925
Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, ill. opposite p. 12.
Bernard 1926a
Bernard, Émile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne, Une Conversation avec Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1926, ill. opp. p. 14.
Fosca 1927
Fosca, François. "La Collection Comiot." L'Amour de l'art 8, no. 4 (April 1927), p. 119, mentioned.
Huyghe 1933
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 371, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Cézanne.
Adhémar 1958
Adhémar, Hélène. Catalogue des peintures, pastels, sculptures impressionnistes du Musée du Louvre. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1958, p. 22, no. 42.
Bazin 1958
Bazin, Germain. Trésors de l'impressionnisme au Louvre. Paris: A. Somogy, 1958, ill. p. 65, c. 1880-181.
Sterling and Adhémar 1958
Sterling, Charles, and Hélène Adhémar. La Peinture au Musée du Louvre, vol. I. Paris: Éditions des Musées Nationaux, 1958, fig. 259.
Brion 1971
Brion, Marcel. Cézanne. Milan: Fratelli Fabbri, 1971, ill. p. 12.
Adhémar et al. 1973
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 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 59, ill.
Elgar 1975
Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 44.
Ponente 1980
Ponente, Nello. Paul Cézanne. Bologna: Capitol, 1980, pl. 11.
Harris 1982
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 44, ill. in color.
Barskaya 1983a
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 131.
Wetzel 1984
Wetzel, Christoph. Paul Cézanne: Leben u. Werk. Stuttgart/Zurich: Belser, 1984, p. 39, ill. in color.
Compin et al. 1986
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 1988
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 114, ill. in color.
Arrouye 1995
Arrouye, Jean. Cézanne: Paris, Provence. Paris: Textuel, 1995, p. 9, ill.
Bonafoux 1995
Bonafoux, Pascal. Cézanne: portrait. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 240, ill.
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. 385, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de l'artiste.
Platzman 2001
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 22, 196, fig. 7, as Portrait de l'artiste.
Lesné and Roquebert 2004
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 2006
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 2008
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 2011a
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 2011b
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, Morton, Rey 2017a
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 2020
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 March 28, 2024).