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 573
Les Deux Enfants
c.1860
Alternate titles: I due bambini, da Prud'hon; Les deux Enfants, d'après Prud'hon
Rewald (15): c.1860; Venturi revised: c.1860; Venturi (10): 1858–60; Vollard: Cahiers d'Art 1857
Oil on canvas
21 5/8 x 18 1/8 in. (55 x 46 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Paintings from the Ambroise Vollard Collection, XIX-XX Centuries, November 6–December 3, 1933, no. 3, as Les Deux Enfants, c. 1857. Traveled to: Arts and Crafts Club, Detroit, December 11, 1933–January 1934.
Bignou Gallery, New York, The Post-Impressionists, October–November 1940, 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, no. 1, as Les Deux Enfants.
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni, March 7–July 7, 2002, 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, 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.
Matthews, Herbert L. "Canny Columbus of Modern Art: Ambroise Vollard." New York Times, October 29, 1933, p. 10, ill.
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.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, listed p. 154.
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 and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 11.
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.
Record last updated October 27, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Les Deux Enfants, c.1860 (FWN 573)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=31 (accessed on July 3, 2025).
