Self-Portrait [recto]

c. 1880/1882

Paul Cezanne

Artist, French, 1839 - 1906

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite on wove paper (sketchbook page)

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    overall: 22 x 12.5 cm (8 11/16 x 4 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1985.64.85.a

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chappuis 1973, no. 614

Associated Artworks

The Artist's Father and Objects on a Mantel [verso]

Paul Cezanne

1877

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Cézanne fils, Paris. (Paul Guillaume [1891-1934], Paris). A. Chappuis, Tresserve; acquired 1966 by Paul Mellon [1907-1999]; gift 1985 to NGA

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1936

  • Cézanne, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France, 1936, no. 157.

1986

  • Gifts to the Nation: Selected Acquisitions from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1986, unnumbered checklist.

1999

  • An Enduring Legacy: Masterpieces from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, NGA, 1999-2000.

2016

  • In Celebration of Paul Mellon, NGA, 2016.

2021

  • Cézanne Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2021, plate 25.

  • Cézanne Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2021, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1973

  • Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cezanne. 2 vols. Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1973.

Inscriptions

upper right in graphite: XL; lower left in graphite: A (circled)

Wikidata ID

Q64618846

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