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 457
Portrait du fils de l'artiste
c.1878
Alternate titles: Head of the Artist's Son; Tête d'enfant; Tête de jeune garçon
Rewald (466): c.1880; Venturi revised: c.1881; Venturi (281): 1875–77; Cooper: c.1881; Gowing: c.1881 (Edinburgh)
Oil on canvas
8 5/16 x 6 in. (21 x 15.2 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3777, huile; petit portrait d'enfant, 14 x 21 cm (25 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 8, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1880
Private collection
Provenance
Exhibition History
Rosenberg & Helft, London, Exhibition of Works by Ingres to Van Gogh, February 25–March 25, 1937, no. 3, as Tête de jeune garçon, 1875.
Arts Council of Great Britain, London, French Paintings from Mr. Peto's Collection, 1947, no. 4, pl. IV, as Head of the Artist's Son.
Arts Council of Great Britain, United Kingdom, French Paintings: A Second Selection from Mr. Peto's Collection, 1951, no. 5, as Head of the Artist's Son. Traveled to: Exeter; Wolverhampton; Sunderland; Carlisle; Eastbourne.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 24, as Portrait du fils de l'artiste, c. 1881, lent by R.A. Peto. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway, Paul Cezanne: 28 malerier, November 13–December 1, 1954, no. 9, as Portrait du fils de l'artiste, c. 1881, lent by R.A. Peto.
Marlborough Galleries in association with the Artists' General Benevolent Institution, London, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century French Paintings from English Private Collections, June–July 1965, no. 5, ill., as Tête d'enfant, 1875-77.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 27. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 281, ill. vol. II, as Tête d'enfant.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, p. 29, fig. 25.
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. 466, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait du fils de l'artiste.
Elderfield, John. "La lecture du modèle." In Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 25, fig. 9.
Elderfield, John. "The Reading of the Model." In Cézanne Portraits. London and Princeton, N.J.: National Portrait Gallery Publications and Princeton University Press, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 6.
Record last updated March 23, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait du fils de l'artiste, c.1878 (FWN 457)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=455 (accessed on November 14, 2024).