The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
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FWN 3003-05a
D'après Murillo: Le jeune mendiant
c.1882–85
Alternate titles: After Murillo: Beggar Boy; Boy Searching for Lice, after Murillo; Le jeune mendiant d'après Murillo; Le petit mendiant de Murillo
Venturi (1269); Chappuis (606): 1882–85
Graphite on wove paper, p. V from the CP I sketchbook
4 3/4 x 7 11/16 in. (12 x 19.5 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 159, as Le petit mendiant de Murillo, c. 1885-95, lent by Adrien Chappuis, Paris.
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Inspiring Impressionism: The Impressionists and the Art of the Past, October 16, 2007–January 13, 2008, no. 12, ill. p. 35, as Boy Searching for Lice, after Murillo. Traveled to: Art Museum, Denver, February 23–May 25, 2008; Art Museum, Seattle, June 15–September 21, 2008.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1269, ill. vol. II, as "Page V".
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, pp. 51-52, cat. no. 274, fig. 113.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 606, ill., as After Murillo: Beggar Boy.
Ballas, Guila. "Paul Cézanne et la revue 'L'Artiste.'" Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 98, periode 6 (December 1981), pp. 224 and 231, fig. 7 p. 226, as Le jeune mendiant d'après Murillo, 1882-1885.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, p. 101, ill.
Cuzin, Jean Pierre et al. Copier créer: de Turner à Picasso: 300 œuvres inspirées par les maîtres du Louvre. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, p. 35, fig. q, as Le jeune mendiant d'après Murillo, Private collection.
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Le jeune Mendiant, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Photo: Angèle Dequier; © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre)
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This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Chappuis I (CP I), 1871–92 (3003)
Sketchbook Chappuis I (CP I), 1871–92 (3003)
Notation on the back endpaper "LIV x 2" indicating the original number of recto and verso sheets of the sketchbook, which has since been disbanded and dispersed.
The page numbers are written in Roman numerals at the lower right corner of the recto pages.
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Record last updated June 5, 2019. 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, c.1882–85 (FWN 3003-05a), p. V 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=2275 (accessed on March 16, 2025).
