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 1876
Garçon lisant
c.1885
Alternate titles: Child reading; Die Lektüre; Enfant lisant; La Lecture; Lektüre; Mann am Pult; Reading
Rewald (W187); Venturi revised: 1890–92; Venturi (889): c.1882
Graphite and watercolor on laid paper
12 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (31.8 x 26.7 cm)
Provenance
Paul Cassirer, Berlin (Private collection);
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Les aquarelles de Cézanne, June 17–29, 1907, no. 22, as La Lecture.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, X. Jahrgang, 1907/1908, I. Ausstellung, September 30–October 18, 1907, no. 18, as Lektüre.
Kunstsalon Emil Richter, Dresden, Germany, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, April–May 1908, no. 17, as Die Lektüre.
Photo-Succession Gallery [Alfred Stieglitz], New York, Watercolors by Cezanne, March 1–25, 1911, no. 18, as Reading.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 6–17, 1914.
Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany, Internationale Ausstellung, February 1–March 31, 1914, no. 422, as Die Lektüre, [lent by Bernheim-Jeune], for sale.
Galerie Ernst Arnold, Dresden, Germany, Französische Malerei des XIX. Jahrhunderts, April–May 1914, no. 115, as Die Lektüre.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Cézanne-Ausstellung: Cézannes Werke in deutschem Privatbesitz: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, November–December 11, 1921, no. 45, as Mann am Pult, lent by Paul Cassirer pr.
Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam, Fransche meesters uit de XIX eeuw: teekeningen, aquarellen, pastels [...], July–August 1938, no. 4.
Paul Cassirer Ltd, London, Paul Cézanne – Water Colours, July 1939, no. 38, as Child reading, dated 1882, lent by Private collection.
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne e gli artisti italiani del '900, October 5, 2013–February 2, 2014, no. 12, ill. lent by Private collection [Holland].
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 889, ill. vol. II, as Enfant lisant.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 187, ill.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Kollektionen Paul Cézanne, Curt Herrmann, Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch: 30. September bis 18. Oktober 1907." Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1905-1908. vol. 3, "Den Sinnen ein magischer Rausch". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2013, p. 513, ill.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 412, ill., as La Lecture, installation photograph from 1914 exhibition, p. 96.
Record last updated August 20, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Garçon lisant, c.1885 (FWN 1876)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1167 (accessed on February 16, 2025).