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FWN 448
Portrait de Louis Guillaume
1879–80
Alternate titles: Bildnis Louis Guillaume; Giovane italiano; Jeune Garcon; Jeune Homme au foulard blanc; Jeune Italien; L'enfant au foulard blanc; Le jeune Homme au foulard blanc; Louis Guillaume; Portrait d'enfant; Portrait de M. G...; Portrait of Louis Guillaume; Ragazzo italiano; The Artist's Son
Rewald (421): 1879–80; Venturi revised: 1879–82; Venturi (374): 1879–82; Rivière: 1879; Vollard: 1880; Cooper: 1890 (oral communication); Gowing: 1879 (Burlington); Ratcliffe: possibly March 1879
Oil on canvas
22 x 18 1/5 in. (56 x 47 cm)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4325, portrait du petit Guillaume avec un mouchoir blanc au cou, 56 x 45 cm (1000 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 51, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1878 Guillaume

Keywords

Provenance
Antoine Guillaume, Paris
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Egisto Fabbri, Florence and Paris (Nov. 10,1906)
Paul Rosenberg, Paris (1927)
Wildenstein Galleries, New York
Chester Dale, New York (Dec. 14, 1927);
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1963)
Exhibition History
1895 Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895.
1906b Paris
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, 4e exposition, October 6–November 15, 1906, no. 322, as Le jeune Homme au foulard blanc, lent by Vollard.
1920 Venice
Biennale, Venice, Italy, Mostra Individuale di Paul Cézanne, April 15–October 31, 1920, no. 23, (dated 1890), as Ragazzo italiano, lent by Fabbri.
1921 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne, February 6–March 6, 1921, no. 30, as Jeune Homme au foulard blanc, lent by Fabbri.
1928d New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Paul Cézanne, January 1928, no. 20, as Portrait de Louis Guillaume, lent by Dale.
2017 Paris
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 28, ill.
2017–18 Paris and traveling
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 9.1, ill. shown in Washington only. Traveled to: National Portrait Gallery, London, October 26, 2017–February 11, 2018; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, March 25–July 1, 2018.
Published References
Fülep 1906
Fülep, Lajos. "Salon d'Automne." Szerda, October 31, 1906.
Jamot 1906
Jamot, Paul. "Le Salon d'Automne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 36, periode 3 (December, 1906), p. 466.
Fülep 1907
Fülep, Lajos. "Paul Cézanne." Muveszet, June 15, 1907, (reprinted in C. Tolnay in Acta Historiae Artium, Budapest, 1974, pp. 108, 115).
Werenskiold 1909–10
Werenskiold, Erik. "Rembrandt og Cézanne." Kunstbladet, 1909–10, p. 4, ill.
Denis 1910
Denis, Maurice. "Cézanne I' and 'Cézanne II." Translated by Roger Fry. The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 16, no. 82 and no. 83 (January and Fabruary 1910), p. 207, pl. II p. [212] (no. 82), as L'enfant au foulard blanc.
Faure 1911
Faure, Élie. "Paul Cézanne." L'Art décoratif 13, no. 157 (October 5, 1911), p. 125, ill.
Bluemner 1913
Bluemner, Oscar. "Audiator et altera pars: Some Plain Sense on the Modern Art Movement." Camera Work (June 1913), pl. I.
Denis 1914
Denis, Maurice. "Cézanne: I [and] II." Kunst und Künstler 12, no. 4 and no. 5 (1914), ill. p. 281.
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 31, as Portrait de M. G...
Meier-Graefe 1918a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 116.
Henraux 1920
Henraux, Lucien. "I Cézanne della raccolta Fabbri." Dedalo vol. 1, no. 1 (1920), ill. p. 65, as Giovane italiano, 1890.
Vauvrecy and Cezanne 1920
Vauvrecy; Paul Cézanne. "Vie de Cézanne'';''Lettres de Cézanne." L'Esprit nouveau: revue internationale d'esthétique, no. 2 (1920), ill. p. 142.
Waldmann 1921
Waldmann, E. Das Bildnis im 19. Jahrhundert. Berlin, 1921, pp. 264–66, fig. 123.
Meier-Graefe 1922
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 136.
Klingsor 1923
Klingsor, Tristan L. Cézanne. Paris: Rieder, 1923, pl. 8, as Jeune Garcon.
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 207, listed, ill. opp. p. 74, as Portrait de Louis Guillaume, dated 1879.
Henraux 1924
L.[ucien] H.[enraux]. "Une grande collection de Cézanne en Italie: la collection Egisto Fabbri." L'Amour de l'art 5, no. 11 (November 1924), ill. p. 344, as Jeune Italien, 1890.
Bulletin de l'Art Français et Japonais 1927
"Cézanne and His Historians." Bulletin de l'Art Français et Japonais 3, no. 30 (1927), p. 353, ill.
Pfister 1927
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 43, as Bildnis Louis Guillaume, 1879.
Zervos 1927
Zervos, Christian. "Idéalisme et naturalisme dans la peinture moderne, II: Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh." Cahiers d'Art, no. 10 (1927), p. 334, ill.
Meier-Graefe 1927a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XXVIII.
Arts 1928
Arts 13, no. 1 (January 1928), p. 62, ill.
Dale 1929
Dale, Maud. "French Art from the Chester Dale Collection." Art News (April 27, 1929), p. 53, ill.
Dale and Dale 1929
Dale, Chester and Maud Dale. Before Manet to Modigliani from the Chester Dale Collection. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929, no. 56, ill.
Fry 1929
Fry, Roger. "Cézannes Udvikling." Samleren 6 (July, August, September 1929), p. 115, ill.
Gasquet 1930b
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Berlin: B. Cassirer, 1930, ill. opp. p. 52.
McBride 1931a
McBride, Henry. "The Chester Dale Collection at New-York." Formes: revue internationale des arts plastiques, no. 14 (April 1931), ill. between pp. 56-57, as Portrait de Louis Guillaume.
Rivière 1933
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 75, ill.
Iavorskaia 1935a
Iavorskaia, Nina. Cézanne. Moscow: Ogiz-Izogiz, 1935, pl. 40.
Iavorskaia 1935b
Iavorskaia, Nina. Paul Cézanne. Milan: Hoepli, 1935, pl. XI.
Raynal 1936
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. LXVIII p. 100.
Vauxcelles 1936
Vauxcelles, Louis. "Cézanne au Musée de l'Orangerie." Le Monde illustré (Paris) (May 9, 1936), ill. p. 300, as Portrait d'enfant.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 374, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Louis Guillaume.
Vollard 1937
Vollard, Ambroise. Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux. Paris: Albin Michel, 1937, pl. 14.
Goldwater 1938
Goldwater, Robert J. "Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections." Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 138, ill.
Zervos 1938
Zervos, Christian. Histoire de l'art contemporain. Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'art, 1938, p. 27, ill.
Cogniat 1939a
Cogniat, Raymond. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1939, pl. 65.
Graber 1942
Graber, Hans. Paul Cézanne. Basel: Schwabe, 1942, ill. opp. p. 116.
National Gallery of Art 1942
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1942, p. 69, ill., as Louis Guillaume.
Rivière 1942
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 73, ill.
Chester Dale 1948
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. Washington, D.C. 1953, p. 69, ill., as Louis Guillaume.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. XI, listed p. 179.
Ramuz 1951
Ramuz, Charles Ferdinand. L'exemple de Cézanne suivi de Pages sur Cézanne: dessins et peintures. Lausanne: Mermod, 1951, ill. p. 55, as Portrait de Louis Guillaume.
Schapiro 1952a
Schapiro, Meyer. Cézanne. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1952, pp. 56–57, ill.
Beucken 1955
Beucken, Jean de. Un portrait de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, [1955], p. 175.
Andersen 1967a
Andersen, Wayne V. "Cézanne, Tanguy, Choquet [sic]." The Art Bulletin 49, no. 2 (June 1967), p. 139.
Andersen 1970
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, p. 29, fig. 24.
Erpel 1973
Erpel, Fritz. Paul Cézanne. Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1973, no. 7.
Schapiro 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 13 (with comments).
Elgar 1975
Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 70.
National Gallery of Art 1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1975, no. 1765, p. 61, ill., as Louis Guillaume.
Bessonova and Williams 1986
Bessonova, Marina, and William Williams. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Hermitage, Leningrad, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York: Park Lane, 1986, p. 159, ill.
Brettell 1986
Brettell, Richard. "The Bartletts and the 'Grande Jatte:' Collecting Modern Painting in the 1920s." Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 12, no. 2 (1986), p. 111.
Rewald 1986b
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 128, ill.
Erpel 1988
Erpel, Fritz. Paul Cézanne. Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1988, no. 12.
Kendall 1988
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 90, ill.
Rewald 1989
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 97, 136, 337, fig. 60.
Naubert-Riser 1992
Naubert-Riser, Constance. Cézanne. London: Studio Editions, 1994, p. 32.
Cachin and Rishel 1995
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 234, fig. 2.
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. 421, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de Louis Guillaume.
Reff 1997a
Reff, Theodore. Review of The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, by John Rewald, in collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. The Burlington Magazine 139, no. 1136 (November 1997), p. 800, questions Rewald's date as inconclusive.
Bardazzi 2007b
Bardazzi, Francesca, ed. Cézanne in Florence: Two Collectors and the 1910 Exhibition of Impressionism. Translated by John Venerella. Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, p. 261, fig. 14, as Portrait de Louis Guillaume.
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 129; vol. 2, p. 95, as Portrait de Louis Guillaume.
Taylor 2009
Taylor, Michael R. "Learning from 'Papa Cézanne': Arshile Gorky and the (Self-) Invention of the Modern Artist." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 421, fig. 15.11, as Louis Guillaume, dated c. 1882.
Gosztonyi 2012
Gosztonyi, Ferenc. "The Early Reception of Cézanne in Hungary, 1906–10: Fülep and Popper." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 180, fig. 100, as Portrait of Louis Guillaume, fig. 103 is an interior photograph of Fülep's living room with a reproduction of this work on the wall.

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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de Louis Guillaume, 1879–80 (FWN 448)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=414 (accessed on March 28, 2024).