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Catalogue entry

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)
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
Marc Arthur Kohn [auction], Paris, France

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Galerie E. Bignou, Paris (1939)
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 21, 1950, no. 79
Sam Salz, New York
Martin and Henry Zimet, New York
Ader, Picard, Tajan, Tokyo, Dec. 7, 1989, no. 20, ill.; bought in
Loudmer, Paris, Nov. 26, 1990, no. 48
Alain Dreyfus, Basel
Hampel Fine Art Auctions, Munich, April 29, 2017, no. 8, ill.
Marc Arthur Kohn [auction], Paris, April 14, 2022, no. 1, ill.
Exhibition History
1933–34 New York and traveling
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.
1940i New York
Bignou Gallery, New York, The Post-Impressionists, October–November 1940, no. 1, as Les Deux Enfants.
1942b New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Children of France, March 16–April 4, 1942.
1983 Basel
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, June–September 1983, no. 1, as Les Deux Enfants.
2002 Rome
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.
2017 Martigny
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 1931
Vollard, Ambroise. "Souvenirs sur Cézanne." Cahiers d'art 6, nos. 9–10 (1931), p. 387, ill.
Matthews 1933
Matthews, Herbert L. "Canny Columbus of Modern Art: Ambroise Vollard." New York Times, October 29, 1933, p. 10, ill.
Bulliet 1936
Bulliet, Clarence Joseph. The Significant Moderns and Their Pictures. New York: Covici, 1936, pl. 1.
Vollard 1936
Vollard, Ambroise. Recollections of a Picture Dealer. Translated by Violet M. MacDonald. New York: Dover Publications, 1936, ill. opposite p. 182.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 10, ill. vol. II, as Les Deux Enfants.
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, listed p. 154.
Reff 1960c
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 1961
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 61, ill. with Prud'hon original.
Schapiro 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 56, ill.
Barskaya 1983a
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 11.
Rewald 1996
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 2008
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.
Notes

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.

Les Deux Enfants, c.1860 (FWN 573). Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Deux enfants jouant avec un lapin, Oil on wood. State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Deux enfants jouant avec un lapin, Oil on wood. State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
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 April 26, 2024).