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 520
L'Enfant au chapeau de paille
1896
Alternate titles: Child with Straw Hat; Enfant au chapeau de paille; Knabe mit Hut; Portrait; Portrait d'enfant
Rewald (813): 1896; Venturi revised: 1896; Venturi (700): 1896; Rivière: 1896; Cooper: July–August 1896; Gowing: 1896 (Edinburgh); Reff: July 1896 (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
27 3/16 x 22 13/16 in. (69 x 58 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3670, esquisse à l'huile d'enfant avec chapeau de paille, 74 x 60 cm (75 frs)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 3567, Esquisse d'enfant avec chapeau de paille, 73 x 60 cm (100 frs)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Moderne Galerie [Heinrich Thannhauser], Munich, [unknown title], December 1912, no. 7, as Knabe mit Hut, tentative identification.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Französische Kunst des XIX. und XX. Jahrhunderts, October 5–November 14, 1917, no. 17, as Enfant au chapeau de paille, lent by A.K[ann].
Reid & Lefevre, London, Important Pictures by 19th Century French Masters, May–June 1924, no number, ill., as Portrait d'enfant, 1897.
Société des artistes indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, Trente ans d’art indépendant: rétrospective de 1884 à 1914, February 20–March 21, 1926, no. 2868, as L'Enfant au chapeau de paille, lent by Hodebert (Gal. Barbazanges).
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November–December 1934, no. 40, (dated 1897), as Child with Straw Hat, lent by Stransky.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 40, ill. lent by Wildenstein.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 60, ill. lent by L.A. County.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, The Mr. and Mrs. George Garde de Sylva Collection, 1950, no. 2, ill.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 54, as L'Enfant au chapeau de paille, lent by the County Museum of History, Science and Modern Art, Los Angeles. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, W.R. Valentiner Memorial Exhibition, 1959, no number, supplement, p. 291, pl. LXIV.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 44, ill. lent by Los Angeles County Museum.
Hôtel de la région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Marseille, France, Peintres de la couleur en Provence 1875-1920, January 28–April 28, 1995, pp. 340-341, ill., as L'Enfant au chapeau de paille. Traveled to: Musée du Luxembourg, Patis, France, May 15–August 15, 1995.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 24, ill., as L'Enfant au chapeau de paille. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 53, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 19.2, 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
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 221, listed, ill. opp. p. 158, as Portrait d'enfant.
Tatlock, R.R. "Lefevre Gallery: Works by French Masters." The Daily Telegraph (London), June 2, 1924, p. 14, as Portrait d'enfant.
Fels, Florent. "Le Dernier Salon des Indépendants." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 29 (March 1,1926), p. 165, ill., as L'Enfant au chapeau de paille.
Flint, Ralph. "The Private Collection of Josef Stransky." Art News XXIX, no. 33 (May 16, 1931).
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 700, ill. vol. II, as L'Enfant au chapeau de paille.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 55, as ...portrait d'un enfant ...
Miller, Arthur. "Da Sylva Collection Enriches Los Angeles." Art Digest 21, no. 2 (October 15, 1946), p. 13.
Gibbs, Jo. "Cézanne, Father of Modernism, Gives Comprehensive New York Show." Art Digest 21, no. 13 (April 1, 1947), p. 10, ill.
Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 11.
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. 813, ill. vol. 2, as L'Enfant au chapeau de paille.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 360; vol. 2, p. 232, as L'Enfant au chapeau de paille.
Cézanne, Philippe. "My Great-Grandmother Marie-Hortense Fiquet." In Madame Cézanne. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 43, fig. 12.
Notes
When Cézanne was staying at the Hotel de l'Abbaye on the Lac d'Annecy, he paingted this portrait of a child, who was the son of Monsieur Vallet, one of the gardeners at the hotel.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Enfant au chapeau de paille, 1896 (FWN 520)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=789 (accessed on April 19, 2024).
