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 3008-37b
Portrait de Paul Cezanne fils
1877–80
Alternate titles: Le petit Paul; Paul, der Sohn des Künstlers; Portrait de Paul enfant; Portrait du petit Paul; Portrait of the artist's son; Tête du petit Paul
Chappuis (851): c.1885
Graphite and ink on wove paper, p. XXXVII verso from the CP II sketchbook
4 7/8 x 8 1/2 in. (12.4 x 21.5 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Les impressionnistes en noir et blanc, 1974, no. 22, ill., as Tête du petit Paul, lent by Petit Palais, Paris.
Musée de Melun, Melun, France, Le Pont dans la peinture, autour du "Pont de Maincy" de Cézanne, June 18–July 31, 1983, as Portrait du petit Paul.
Fundación La Caixa - CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain, D'Ingres à Bonnard: collection du Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, February 17–May 11, 2003, no. 51, ill., as Portrait de Paul enfant.
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne et Paris, October 12, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 20bis, ill., p. 50, as Portrait de Paul Cezanne fils, not shown.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1291-01, as "Page XXXVII v."
Lem, F. H. Sur le chemin de la peinture: Paul Cézanne. Paris: Aux Éditions des Sept Couleurs, 1969, fig. 6.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 161, ill. dated c. 1884.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 851, ill., as Portrait of the artist's son.
Tobien, Felicitas. Paul Cézanne. Ramerding: Berghaus, 1981, ill. p. 39, as Paul, der Sohn des Künstlers, 1885, Cabinet des Dessins, Louvre, Paris [sic].
"Introduction." In Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence; Liège: [s.n.], 1982. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 47, as Le petit Paul.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 137, ill.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "La montée de Cézanne à Paris." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 50, ill.
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.
Record last updated September 14, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de Paul Cezanne fils, 1877–80 (FWN 3008-37b), p. XXXVII 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=2529 (accessed on February 8, 2025).