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Catalogue entry

FWN 3003-x2a-TA
D'après Murillo: Le jeune mendiant
1878–80
Alternate titles: Jeune Mendiant; Le prison
Rewald (W67); Venturi revised: 1872–77; Venturi (866): 1872–77
Graphite, ink, watercolor, and gouache on wove paper, possibly page from the CP I sketchbook
4 3/4 x 7 7/8 in. (12 x 20 cm)
Private collection, Paris

Keywords

  • Figure compositions
    Individual subject:
  • Studies
    After paintings and works on paper:
Provenance
Léon Marseille, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (July 26, 1919);
Bernheim-Jeune, Lausanne (December 31, 1921)
Private collection, Paris
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 866, ill. vol. II, as Jeune Mendiant.
Venturi 1943
Venturi, Lionello. Paul Cézanne: Water-colours. Oxford: B. Cassirer, 1943, p. 15, mentioned.
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, listed p. 154.
Ballas 1981
Ballas, Guila. "Paul Cézanne et la revue 'L'Artiste.'" Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 98, periode 6 (December 1981), p. 231, 1872-1877.
Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 67, ill.
Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 416, ill., as Le prison, the verso is not mentioned.
Notes

Cezanne may have executed this work after an engraving reproduced in Charles Blanc's Ecole Espagnole (1869), as suggested by Rewald (1983, p. 101) or from an engraving, which appeared in L'Artiste (1838–39), as suggested by G. Ballas (1981).  

D'après Murillo: Le jeune mendiant, 1878–80 (FWN 3003-x2a-TA). Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Le jeune Mendiant, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Le jeune Mendiant, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Photo: Angèle Dequier; © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre)

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Record last updated March 24, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après Murillo: Le jeune mendiant, 1878–80 (FWN 3003-x2a-TA), possibly page from the CP I sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1044 (accessed on May 1, 2025).