The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
(Formerly directed by Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash)
FWN 518
Jeune fille à la poupée
c.1895
Alternate titles: Girl with a Doll; La jeune Fille à la poupée
Rewald (806): c.1896; Venturi revised: c.1897; Venturi (675): 1892–96; Vollard: 1897 (1914) and 1894 (1923)
Oil on canvas
36 3/16 x 28 11/16 in. (92 x 73 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3864, huile; portrait de femme assise dans une chaise et tenant une poupée à la main (150 frs)
Vollard C stockbook: no. 7027, Jeune fille à la poupée, 92 x 73 cm
Vollard W stockbook: no. 3947, femme à la poupée; huile, 92 x 73 (100,000)
Private collection, New York
Provenance
Private collection, New York
Exhibition History
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895, tentative identification.
Galerie Pigalle, Paris, Exposition Cèzanne, 1839–1906, January 4–February 7, 1930, no. 29, as La jeune Fille à la poupée, lent by A. Kann.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 92, as Jeune fille à la poupée, lent by Kann.
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., March 3–April 15, 1956, no. 86, ill., p. 130. Traveled to: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, April 28–May 27, 1955; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, June 12–July 1, 1956; Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, opening September 8, 1956; City Art Museum, St. Louis, October 19–November 19, 1956; William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, December 2–30, 1956; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, opening March 8, 1957; Institute of the Arts, Detroit; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, French Paintings, 1789–1929: From the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., March 25–May 22, 1960, no. 71, p. 79.
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Collection Berggruen, June 16–October 30, 1988, no. 9, ill.
National Gallery, London, Van Gogh to Picasso: The Berggruen Collection at the National Gallery, January–April 21, 1991, no. 22, ill., as Girl with a Doll, c. 1899.
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin–Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Picasso und seine Zeit: Die Sammlung Berggruen, 1996–2000, no. 20, ill., p. 69.
Nationalgalerie Berlin, Berlin, Cézanne in Berlin. 28 Werke aus den Staatlichen Museen und aus Privatbesitz, October 6, 2000–January 14, 2001, no. 20, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 52, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 19.1, ill. Traveled to: National Portrait Gallery, London, October 26, 2017–February 11, 2018; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, March 25–July 1, 2018.
Published References
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 27, as La jeune Fille à la poupée.
Fry, Roger. "'Paul Cézanne' by Ambroise Vollard: Paris, 1915, A Review." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 31, no. 173 (August 1917), pl. III.
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne: His Life and Art. Translated by Harold L. van Doren. New York: Nicholas Brown, 1923, ill. opp. p. 176.
Guenne, Jacques. "Paul Cézanne et le drame de la peinture." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 204 (1936), ill. p. [154].
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 675, ill. vol. II, as Jeune fille à la poupée.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 146, listed.
Gimpel, René. Journal d'un collectionneur marchand de tableaux. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1963, p. 274 (entry dated Sept. 6, 1924).
"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), p. 48, ill.
Kendall, Richard. Van Gogh to Picasso: The Berggruen Collection at the National Gallery. London: The National Gallery, 1991, pp. 82–83, no. 22, 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. 806, ill. vol. 2, as Jeune fille à la poupée.
Feilchenfeldt, Christina. "Portraits." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 180, fig. 1, as Jeune fille à la poupée.
Notes
This portrait of a young girl was painted at the Jas de Bouffan.
Record last updated May 16, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Jeune fille à la poupée, c.1895 (FWN 518)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=782 (accessed on April 23, 2024).
