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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1961.152
People
Paul Cézanne, French (Aix-en-Provence 1839 - 1906 Aix-en-Provence)
Title
Portrait of Ambroise Vollard
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1899
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296702

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 45.8 x 39.8 cm (18 1/16 x 15 11/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Deknatel
Accession Year
1961
Object Number
1961.152
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Measurements do not include folded margins on three sides (left: 29 mm; right: 31 mm; bottom: 54 mm).

Publication History

  • The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cézanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné, website, no. FWN 1775; https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2889; accessedn 2-13-24
  • Lionello Venturi, Cézanne, son art, son oeuvre, P. Rosenberg (Paris, 1936), cat. no. 1480, pl. 379
  • Ira Moskowitz and Maurice Sérullaz, Drawings of the Masters: French Impressionists, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, NY, 1962), pl. 100
  • Agnes Mongan, Great Drawings of All Time, ed. Ira Moskowitz and Victoria Thorson, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1962), cat. no. 818, n.p., repr.
  • Adrien Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York Graphic Society Ltd. (Greenwich, CT, 1973), cat. no. 1194, repr.
  • Richard Kendall, Cézanne by Himself: Drawings, Paintings, Writings, Macdonald Orbis (London, 1988), p. 233, repr.
  • Françoise Cachin, Cézanne, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, 1996), cat. no. 178, repr.
  • Cézanne and Japan, exh. cat., NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) (Tokyo, 1999), cat. no. 73, repr. (color)
  • Alex Danchev, John Elderfield, Annabelle Mathias, Mary G. Morton, Xavier Rey, and Jayne Warman, Cézanne Portraits, exh. cat., Gallimard and Musée d'Orsay (Paris, 2017), pp. 202, 206, repr. p. 206 as fig. 62

Exhibition History

  • Cezanne Watercolours, Tate Britain, London, 09/18/1973 - 12/31/1973
  • Modern Art for Harvard: Prints and Drawings Acquired through the Generosity of Frederick B. and Virginia H. Deknatel, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/31/1995 - 08/06/1995
  • Cézanne, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 05/30/1996 - 09/01/1996
  • Cézanne and Japan, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, 09/11/1999 - 12/19/1999; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, 01/05/2000 - 03/12/2000

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