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 3008-42b-TA
Tête de Cezanne fils et chiffres
1882–83
Alternate titles: Head of a young bather, and numbers; Head of his Son; Portrait du fils de l'artiste
Chappuis (835); Venturi (1294-01, 1300)
Graphite on wove paper, p. XLII verso from the CP II sketchbook
8 9/16 x 4 7/8 in. (21.8 x 12.4 cm)
Private Collection, on loan to Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Museum Berggruen
Provenance
Private collection, Paris
Berggruen Family
Exhibition History
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 153, as Portrait du fils de l'artiste, c. 1880, lent by Adrien Chappuis, Paris.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, The Impressionists and the Salon (1874-1886), April 16–May 12, 1974, no. 13a, ill., as Head of his Son, lent by U.C. San Diego Foundation, San Diego. Traveled to: Gallery, University of California, Riverside, California, May 20–June 20, 1974.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, nos. 1294-01 and 1300, as "Page XLII v."
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 166, ill. dated 1884–86.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 835, ill., as Head of a young bather, and numbers.
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Chappuis II (CP II), 1871–98 (3008)
Sketchbook Chappuis II (CP II), 1871–98 (3008)
The sketchbook originally contained 50 sheets; the pages are numbered on the "a" side at lower right in Roman numerals.
At the time of Chappuis' purchase from Paul Guillaume, the sketchbook was incomplete and a number of pages already dispersed and are still missing.
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Record last updated July 7, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Tête de Cezanne fils et chiffres, 1882–83 (FWN 3008-42b-TA), p. XLII verso from the CP II sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2513 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
