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 1746
Portrait du fils de l'artiste
c.1885
Alternate titles: El hijo del artista; Ganzfiguriges Bildnis Paul Cézanne jun.; Le fils de l'artiste, étude en pied; Le fils de l'artiste, portrait en pied; Portrait de Paul Cézanne, fils; Portrait of the Artist's Son; Study of his Son Paul; The artist's son, full-length study
Chappuis (850); Venturi (1469): c.1885
Graphite on paper
19 5/16 x 12 3/16 in. (49 x 31 cm)
Private collection
Provenance
Exhibition History
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 69, as Portrait du fils de l'artiste, c. 1885, lent by Cézanne fils.
Société des artistes indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, 50e exposition - Centenaire du peintre indépendant Paul Cézanne, March 17–April 10, 1939, no. 38, as Portrait de Paul Cézanne, fils, c. 1885, lent by Paul Cézanne fils.
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 117, ill. lent by Alex L. Hillman, New York.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 90, lent by Alexander Hillman.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 66, ill. lent by Hillman Periodicals, Inc.
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 98, c. 1885.
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, Artists and Maecenas: A Tribute to Curt Valentin, November–December 1963, no. 135, ill., as Portrait of the Artist's Son, c. 1883.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 75, ill. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September 19–November 4, 1973, no. 51, ill. in b/w, catalogue note: p. 161, as The artist's son, full-length study, lent by the Alex Hillman Family Foundation, New York. Traveled to: Hayward Gallery, London, November 13–December 30, 1973.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 108, ill., as Le fils de l'artiste, portrait en pied, c. 1885, lent by The Alex Hillman Family Foundation, New York. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 55, ill. p. 151, as Ganzfiguriges Bildnis Paul Cézanne jun. 1885-1886, lent by The Alex Hilllan Family Foundation, New York.
Musée Saint-Georges, Liège, Belgium, Cézanne, March 12–May 9, 1982, no. 39, ill., as Portrait du fils de l'artiste, 1885, lent by The Alex Hillman Family Foundation, New York. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 12–August 31, 1982 (exhibition catalogue; preface by Denis Coutagne).
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne, June 12–August 31, 1982, no. 39, ill., as Portrait du fils de l'artiste, 1885, lent by The Alex Hillman Family Foundation, New York.
Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Paul Cézanne, March 9–April 1984, no. 71, ill., as El hijo del artista, c. 1885, lent by The Alex Hillman Family Foundation, New York.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 105, ill. in color, p. 284, as Portrait du fils de l'artiste, c. 1885, lent by The Alex Hillman Family Foundation, New York, shown in Paris and Philadelphia only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1469, ill. vol. II, as Portrait du fils de l'artiste.
Boisdeffre, PIerre, Pierre Cabanne, Raymond Cogniat. Cézanne. Collection Génies et Réalités. Paris: Hachette, 1966, p. 19, fig. 7.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 169, ill. dated c. 1886.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 850, ill., as The artist's son, full-length study.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 114, ill., as Le fils de l'artiste, étude en pied, c. 1885.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 35, fig. 1.22,, as Study of his Son Paul, dated c. 1885.
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 590, no. 1411, ill. in b/w p. 591, as Le fils de l'artiste, étude en pied, c. 1885.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 166, fig. 49.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. London and Princeton, N,J.: National Portrait Gallery Publications and Princeton University Press, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 53, dated 1888–90.
Record last updated December 8, 2018. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait du fils de l'artiste, c.1885 (FWN 1746)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2528 (accessed on May 2, 2025).
