The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
Catalogue entry
FWN 526
Portrait de paysan assis
1898–99
Alternate titles: Paysan; Portrait d'homme; Portrait d'homme assis sur une chaise; Portrait de Paysan; Seated Peasant
Rewald: (827) 1898–1900; Venturi revised: 1897–1900; Venturi: (691) 1895–1900; Reff: probably 1898–1900 (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
21 1/2 x 17 11/16 in. (54.6 x 45 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3427, peinture à l'huile; portrait d'homme assis jambes croisés, les mains unies, fond gris, 54 x 45 cm (150 frs)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kunstnerforbundet, Kristiania (Oslo), Norway, Den franske Utstilling, January–February 1918, no. 10, as Portrait d'homme, for sale, Mustad buys.
Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, Mästerwerk i Fransk 1800: Talskonst, December 1–31, 1935, no. 4, ill., as Portrait d'homme assis sur une chaise, lent by Private collection, Norway.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection, May 21–September 17, 1989, n.n, pp. 80-81, ill, as Seated Peasant. Traveled to: National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C, May 6–August 5, 1990. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, August 16–November 15, 1990. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 4–October 13, 1991.
Courtauld Gallery, London, Cézanne's Card Players, October 21, 2010–January 16, 2011, no. 24, ill., pp. 148–51, p. 148, 150 (detail), as Seated Peasant, c. 1892–96, shown in New York only; suggests that the sitter is the same individual as in FWN508 and 523. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 9–May 8, 2011.
Published References
Faure, Elie. "Toujours Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 1, no. 8 (December 1920), ill. p. 268 as Portrait de Paysan.
Jamot, Paul. "L'art français en Norvège." La Renaissance (Paris; New York), vol. 12, no. 2 (February 1929), p. 104, ill. p. 86 as Portrait d'homme assis sur une chaise, Christian Mustad collection.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 691, ill. vol. II as Paysan.
Brion, Marcel. Cézanne. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974, p. 56.
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 206, 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. 827, ill. vol. 2 as Portrait de paysan assis.
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 166, ill. as Portrait de paysan assis.
Gunnarsson, Torsten, et al. Impressionism and the North: Late 19th Century French Avant-Garde Art and the Art in the Nordic Countries, 1870–1920. Stockholm: Nationalmuseum, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, p. 237, ill. as ex-Mustad collection.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence, The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 211, fig. 5.25 as Portrait de paysan assis.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection - New Edition. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, no. 30, ill.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 216, fig. 64.
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. 73.
Record last updated November 20, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. "Portrait de paysan assis, 1898–99 (FWN 526)." The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. https://paulcezanne-web.panopticoncr.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=803 (accessed on March 8, 2021).
