Try Prime EN Hello, Sign in Account & Lists Sign in Account & Lists Orders Try Prime Cart. Chocquet, Victor (1821-91) An official in the Customs Service who had private means, Chocquet was a born collector. Portrait of Victor Chocquet - by Pierre-Auguste Renoir Click Image to view detail. The little sketch of Chocquet at home among his pictures, although not a searching portrait, is perhaps truer to the man, for something of his mildness and savoring, receptive attitude comes out. ‘Portrait of Victor Chocquet’ was created in 1877 by Paul Cezanne in Impressionism style. "I want the two of you together, you and Eugene Delacroix." Subsequently Renoir painted Victor Chocquet twice. Portrait Of Victor Chocquet By Paul Cezanne Pencil Holder: Amazon.ca: Home & Kitchen. He bought two Cezannes at Pere Tanguy's exclaiming, "These will look very well between a Delacroix and a Courbet !" Home & Kitchen. Portrait de Victor Chocquet. In Portrait of Victor Chocquet a play of lines encloses the hieratic silhouette of the collector, friend of both Renoir and Paul Cezanne. In art collection Among such visionaries were Victor Chocquet (a minor French government official who was an important patron of the Impressionists) in the late 19th century and the dealer-collectors Paul Durand-Ruel, Ambroise Vollard, and Daniel-Kenry Kahnweiler in the early 20th century. Skip to main content. Find more prominent pieces of portrait at Wikiart.org – best visual art database. Portrait of Victor Chocquet 1876–1877 Self-portrait 1879–1882 Kunstmuseum Bern. Portrait of Paul Cézanne's Son Pastel 1888–1890 The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Madame Cézanne in a … Portrait of Victor Chocquet. "Portrait of Victor Chocquet", 1875 (140 Kb); Oil on canvas, 45.7 x 36.8 cm (18 1/8 x 14 1/8 in); Collection Lord Victor Rothschild, Cambridge, England. It is painted in an original way, a further step in Cezanne's striving for a constructed form. Madame Cézanne 1885–87 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Victor Chocquet was a friend of the Impressionists who has become a historical figure through his pure devotion to contemporary art. He started off by accumulating bric- -brac, and then moved on to paintings and drawings, showing an early interest in the works of Delacroix.