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Catalogue entry

FWN 480
Portrait de l'artiste, d'après une photographie
c.1885
Alternate titles: Autoportrait; L'Artiste par lui-meme; Portrait d'homme; Portrait d'homme. Autoportrait; Portrait de Cézanne; Portrait de l'artiste; Portrait de l'artiste au fond vert turquoise; Portrait de Mr. Peyron; Portrait de Sieur Peyron (?) régisseur du Jas de Bouffan; Portrait of a Man; Selbstbildnis
Rewald (587): c.1885; Venturi revised: 1883–85; Venturi (1519): 1883–87
Oil on canvas
21 5/8 x 18 3/16 in. (55 x 46.3 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3465, Cezanne huile portrait d'homme assis les mains appuyées sur le genou se détachant sur un fond vert, 55 x 46 cm (150 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 288, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Peyron 1885
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (Acquired through the generosity of the Sarah Mellon Scaife family)

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Baron Denys Cochin, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (Apr. 26, 1913)
Georges Bernheim, Paris (Dec. 29, 1916)
Galerie Tanner, Zurich
Rudolf Staechelin, Basel (on extended loan from the Staechelin Foundation to the Oeffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel)
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Wildenstein Galleries, Paris, London, and New York
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Exhibition History
1914a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 6–17, 1914, no. 2, as Portrait de Mr. Peyron, for sale.
1916b New York
Montross Gallery, New York, Cézanne, January 1–31, 1916, no. 5, as Portrait of a Man, lent by Bernheim-Jeune.
1920 Bern
Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland, Französische Malerei, November 1920, no. 8, as L'Artiste par lui-meme, tentative identification, lent by Staechelin.
1921 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne, February 6–March 6, 1921, no. 35, as Portrait de Cézanne, tentative identification, lent by Staechelin.
1934 Bern
Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland, Französische Meister des 19. Jahrhunderts und van Gogh, February 18–April 2, 1934, no. 5, (dated 1884–88), as Selbstbildnis.
1956a Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Sammlung Rudolf Staechelin, May 13–June 17, 1956, no. 22, ill.
1964a Paris
Musée national d'art moderne, Paris, Fondation Rudolphe Staechelin: de Corot à Picasso, April 10–June 28, 1964, no. 21, ill., as Portrait de l'artiste, 1883-87.
1967b Basel
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Impressionnistes: Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Degas, Pissaro, Cézanne, October–November 18, 1967, no. 3, as Portrait d'homme. Autoportrait, 1883-87.
1982 Liège and traveling
Musée Saint-Georges, Liège, Belgium, Cézanne, March 12–May 9, 1982, no. 17, ill. 1883-87. 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. 17, ill.
1989–90 Pittsburgh and traveling
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Impressionism: Selections from Five American Museums, November 4–December 31, 1989, no. 10, ill. lent by Carnegie Museum of Art. Traveled to: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, January 27–March 25, 1990; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, April 21–June 17, 1990; Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, July 14–September 9, 1990; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, September 30–November 25, 1990.
1993 Tübingen
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 36, ill.
2007–08 Riehen/Basel
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, L'autre collection: hommage à Ernst et Hildy Beyeler, August 19, 2007–January 6, 2008, listed p. 278, ill. p. 20, as Portrait de l'artiste au fond vert turquoise, c. 1883-1887.
2017 Paris
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 29, ill.
2017–18 Paris and traveling
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 10.1, ill. 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
Arts and Decoration 1916
"The Cézanne Show." Arts and Decoration 6, no. 4 (February 1916), p. 185, ill., as Portrait of a Man.
Cortissoz 1916
Cortissoz, Royal. "Paul Cézanne and the Cult for His Paintings." New York Tribune, January 9, 1916, p. 1, ill.
Mather 1916
Mather, Frank Jewett, Jr. "Paul Cézanne." The Nation 102 (January 13, 1916), pp. 58–59.
New York Times Magazine 1916
"A Representative Group of Cézannes Here." New York Times Magazine, January 2, 1916, p. 21, ill.
Wright 1916b
Wright, Willard Huntington. "Paul Cézanne." International Studio 57, no. 228 (February 1916), p. cxxxi, ill.
McBride 1916c
[McBride, Henry]. "What is Happening in the World of Art." The Sun (New York), January 16, 1916, p. 44, ill.
Cortissoz 1925
Cortissoz, Royal. Personalities in Art. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1925, p. 298.
Vauxcelles 1926
Vauxcelles, Louis. "A propos de Cézanne [Hommage à Paul Cézanne]." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 37 (July 1, 1926), p. 486, ill., as Portrait de Cézanne.
Burroughs 1929
Burroughs, Alan. "David and Cézanne, Presenting the Case of Thought versus Feeling." The Arts 16, no. 1 (September 1929), p. 108, ill.
Raynal 1936
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. LXXIII p. 105.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1519, ill. vol. II, as Portrait d'homme.
Rewald 1937a
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), p. 56.
Novotny 1938
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, fig. 48.
Myers 1968
Myers, Fred A. "Self-Portrait of Cézanne." Carnegie Magazine (September 1968), pp. 225–27, ill. on cover.
Gazette des beaux-arts 1969
"[Aquisitions des musées du monde entier]." La Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 1201 (February 1969), p. 80, no. 326, ill, as Autoportrait, 1883-87.
Brion 1971
Brion, Marcel. Cézanne. Milan: Fratelli Fabbri, 1971, ill. p. 78.
Lévêque 1988
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 8, ill. in color.
Rewald 1989
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 290, 298, 299, fig. 150.
Müller 1990
Müller, Hans-Joachim, ed. Die Sammlung Rudolf Staechelin. Basel: Wiese, 1990, p. 162.
Schmitt 1995
Schmitt, Evmarie. Cézanne in der Provence. München and New York: Prestel, 1995, p. 102.
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. 587, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de l'artiste, d'après une photographie.
Platzman 2001
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 161, 198, fig. 21, as Portrait de l'artiste, d'après une photographie.
Novotny 2011
Novotny, Fritz. Paul Cézanne: Gesammelte Schriften zu seinem Werk und Materialien aus dem Nachlaß. Introduction by Gabriel Ramin Schor (editor), Agnes Blaha (assistance). Vienna: Klever, 2011, fig. 48.
Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 216, ill., as Portrait de Sieur Peyron (?) régisseur du Jas de Bouffan (installation photograph from 1914 exhibition, p. 102).
Smith 2021
Smith, Paul. "Cezanne's Non-Constructive Line." In Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 15.
Nagaï 2022
Nagaï, Takanori. "L'idée de l'anti-modernisation social chez Cézanne." Bulletin of Kyoto Institute of Technology 14 (February 2022), fig. 42.
Record last updated March 29, 2024. 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, d'après une photographie, c.1885 (FWN 480)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=933 (accessed on April 29, 2024).