The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
Catalogue entry
FWN 573-TA
Les Deux Enfants, d'après Prud'hon
c.1860
Alternate titles: I due bambini, da Prud'hon; Les Deux Enfants
Rewald: (15) c.1860; Venturi: (10)
Oil on canvas
21 5/8 x 18 1/8 in. (55 x 46 cm)
Vollard W stockbook: no. 4699, d'après l'ancien, l'enfant au lapin; huile, 55 x 47 (800)
Vollard archives: photo no. 89, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1867
Provenance
Exhibition History
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Paintings from the Ambroise Vollard Collection, November–December 1933, no. 3, ill., (dated 1857), as Les Deux Enfants. Traveled to: Arts and Crafts Club, Detroit, December, 1933–January, 1934.
Bignou Gallery, New York, The Post-Impressionists, October–November 1940. Two studies for oils by Cézanne (no. 4, Les grands arbres, dated c.1895 and no. 6, Mont St. Victoire, dated c.1902, both loaned by Alex Reid & Levefre) were also shown, no. 1, as Les Deux Enfants.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Children of France, March 16–April 4, 1942.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, June–September 1983 (exhibition catalogue), no. 1, as Les Deux Enfants.
Complesso dei Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni, March 7–July 7, 2002 (exhibition catalogue; curated by Maria Teresa Benedetti), listed p. 96, ill, as I due bambini, da Prud'hon, lent by Private collection, France.
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017. Curated by Daniel Marchesseau (exhibition catalogue), no. 6, ill., lent by Galerie Dreyfus, Basel.
Published References
Vollard, Ambroise. "Souvenirs sur Cézanne." Cahiers d'Art 6, nos. 9–10 (1931), p. 387, ill.
New York Times, October 29, 1933, p. 10.
Bulliet, Clarence Joseph. The Significant Moderns and Their Pictures. New York: Covici, 1936, pl. 1.
Vollard, Ambroise. Recollections of a Picture Dealer. Translated by Violet M. MacDonald. New York: Dover Publications, 1936, ill. opposite p. 182.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 10, ill. vol. II as Les Deux Enfants.
Reff, Theodore. "Book Reviews: Cézanne und die alten Meister by Gertrude Berthold." The Art Bulletin, vol. 42, no. 2 (June 1960), p. 149, Appendix, V. 10.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 61, ill. with Prud'hon original.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 56, ill.
Barskaya, Anna. Paul Cézanne. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1975, p. 7, ill.
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 15, ill. vol. 2 as Les Deux Enfants, d'après Prud'hon.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 14; vol. 2, p. 34 as Les Deux Enfants, Present owner unknown.
The original by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon is in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.This painting is a copy from an engraving and explains why the figures are reversed.
Record last updated January 4, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. "Les Deux Enfants, d'après Prud'hon, c.1860 (FWN 573-TA)." The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. http://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=31 (accessed on May 20, 2019).