Self-Portrait [recto]

1897/1900

Paul Cezanne

Artist, French, 1839 - 1906

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    overall: 49 x 29.4 cm (19 5/16 x 11 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1995.47.27.a

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chappuis 1973, no. 1125

Associated Artworks

Study of a Rock [verso]

Paul Cezanne

1893

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Ambroise Vollard [1867-1939], Paris); Dr. Otto Wertheimer, Paris; Robert von Hirsch [1883-1977], Basel; (his estate sale, London, Sotheby's, 27 June 1978, no. 832); Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1936

  • Paul Cézanne. Kunsthalle, Basel, 1936: no. 132.

1978

  • Paul Cézanne Zeichnungen. Exh. cat. Künsthalle Tübingen, 1978, no. 67.

2012

  • Vernet to Villon: Nineteenth-Century French Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Art. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma. Norman, OK, 2012, no. 26.

Bibliography

1914

  • Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris, 1914: 119, repr.

1918

  • Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis. Munich 1918 and 1920: repr. cover and halftitle page.

1920

  • Levy, Simon and André Salmon. "Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne." L'Amour de l'Art (1920): 286 repr.

1929

  • Bertram, A. Cézanne. London, 1929: pl. 1.

1936

  • Rewald, John, Cézanne et Zola. Paris, 1936: no. 46 repr.

  • Venturi, Lionello. Cezanne, son art, son oeuvre. 2 vols. Paris, 1936.

1948

  • Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne, A Biography. New York, 1948: 197 repr.

1950

  • Rewald, John. The Ordeal of Paul Cézanne. London, 1950: 121 repr.

1959

  • Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne. London 1959 and 1965: 122 repr.

1962

  • Rewald, John, ed. Paul Cézanne Briefe. Zurich, 1962: after 176 repr.

1968

  • Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne. New York, 1968: 197 repr.

1973

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

1988

  • Lévêque, Jean-Jacques. La vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Paris, 1988: 214.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower right in graphite: de 1/2; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: PH / 1950; lower right verso stamped in red: RECETTE PARTICULIERE / DE / HÉNDAYE / PONT / DOUANES

Watermarks

CANSON & MONGOLIERE NIDALON-LE (cut off)

Wikidata ID

Q64618931

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