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Catalogue entry

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

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Yvon Helft, Paris
R.A. Peto, Bembridge, Isle of Wight;
Mrs. R.A. Peto, London
William Bowmore, Newcastle and Brisbane
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Dec. 16, 1988, no 11, ill.
Private collection, Japan
Exhibition History
1937e London
Rosenberg & Helft, London, Exhibition of Works by Ingres to Van Gogh, February 25–March 25, 1937, no. 3, as Tête de jeune garçon, 1875.
1947 London
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.
1951 United Kingdom and traveling
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.
1954 Edinburgh and traveling
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.
1954 Oslo
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.
1965b London
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.
1974 Tokyo and traveling
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.
1984 Madrid
Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Paul Cézanne, March 9–April 1984, no. 17.
Published References
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 46.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 281, ill. vol. II, as Tête d'enfant.
Andersen 1970
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, p. 29, fig. 25.
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. 466, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait du fils de l'artiste.
Elderfield 2017
Elderfield, John. "La lecture du modèle." In Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 25, fig. 9.
Elderfield 2017a
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 March 28, 2024).