The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
FWN 460
Esquisse pour un portrait du fils de l'artiste
c.1882
Alternate titles: A Child; Portrait d'enfant
Rewald: (468) c.1882; Venturi revised: c.1883; Venturi: (1521) 1883–87
Oil on canvas
11 x 12 5/8 in. (28 x 32 cm)
Vollard W stockbook: no. 592, Tête d'enfant; huile, 27 x 32 (13,000)
Vollard archives: photo no. 263, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1879—90
Provenance
Exhibition History
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, French Painting of the Last Half of the Nineteenth Century, June 15–July 29, 1956, no number, ill.
Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada Collects: European Painting, 1860–1960, January 19–February 21, 1960, no. 176, ill., p. 56.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 5, ill., as Esquisse pour un portrait du fils de l'artiste. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Modigliani y su tiempo, February 5–May 18, 2008, no. 8, ill., as A Child, c. 1883.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1521, ill. vol. II, as Portrait d'enfant.
Hubbard, Robert Hamilton. European Paintings in Canadian Collections,vol. II. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1962, p. 150, ill.
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. 468, ill. vol. 2, as Esquisse pour un portrait du fils de l'artiste.
Shiff, Richard. "Mark, Motif, Materiality." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 109, fig. 11, as Esquisse pour un portrait du fils de l'artiste.
Record last updated July 16, 2018. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. "Esquisse pour un portrait du fils de l'artiste, c.1882 (FWN 460)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=458 (accessed on March 29, 2023).
