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)
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FWN 486
Paul Cezanne, fils de l'artiste
1886–87
Alternate titles: Jeune homme au chapeau melon; Le jeune homme au petit chapeau; Portrait au chapeau melon; Portrait de jeune homme; Portrait de Paul Cezanne fils; Portrait de Paul Cézanne, fils de l'artiste; The Artist's Son, Paul
Rewald (649): 1888–90; Venturi revised: c.1890; Cézanne fils: 1885; Venturi (519): 1885
Oil on canvas
25 3/8 x 21 1/4 in. (64.5 x 54 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, December 1–18, 1920, no. 23, ill., as Portrait de jeune homme, lent by Georges Bernheim.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition rétrospective Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) au profit de la caisse du Monument Cézanne, June 1–30, 1926, no. 12, as Portrait de jeune homme, lent by Soubies.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Modern French Art from the Chester Dale Collection, October 1928, no. 2.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, A Century of French Painting, November 12–December 8, 1928, no. 26, as Le jeune homme au petit chapeau, lent by Mrs. Chester Dale.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 36, ill. shown in Washington only.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 12.1, 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
Vauvrecy; Paul Cézanne. "Vie de Cézanne'';''Lettres de Cézanne." L'Esprit nouveau: revue internationale d'esthétique, no. 2 (1920), ill. in color p. 118.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 213, listed.
Ozenfant, Amedée, and Charles Edouard Jeanneret. La Peinture moderne. Paris: Les Éditions Crès, 1924, pp. 30–31.
Anonymous. "L'exposition du peintre aixois Paul Cézanne." Le Petit Provençal, June 2, 1926, p. 2, as Jeune homme au chapeau melon.
Dormoy, Marie, translated by Margarete Mauthner. "Die Cézanne - Ausstellung bei Bernheim-Jeune." Kunst und Künstler 24, no. 11 (1926), p. 448.
Pemberton, Murdock. "Some Impertinent Questions." Creative Art (September 1928), p. xxxix, ill.
Santenac, Paul. "Vente de la collection du Dr. Soubiès." La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe (Paris), vol. 11, no. 5 (May 1928), ill. p. [212], as Le jeune homme au petit chapeau.
Dale, Chester and Maud Dale. Before Manet to Modigliani from the Chester Dale Collection. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929, no. 58, ill.
McBride, Henry. "The Chester Dale Collection at New-York." Formes: revue internationale des arts plastiques, no. 14 (April 1931), p. 58, as Le jeune homme au petit chapeau.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 519, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Paul Cézanne, fils de l'artiste.
Goldwater, Robert J. "Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections." Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 137, ill.
Mack, Gerstle. La Vie de Paul Cézanne. Translated by Nancy Bouwens. Paris: Gallimard, 1938, ill. opp. p. 200.
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 61.
"The Golden Years of France." Magazine of Art vol, 35, no. 5 (May 1942), p. 178, ill., as The Artist's Son, Paul.
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1942, p. 68, ill., as The Artist's Son, Paul.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 44, as Portrait de Paul Cézanne, fils de l'artiste, 1885.
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. Washington, D.C. 1953, p. 68, ill., as The Artist's Son, Paul.
Hess, Walter. "Zum Bild des Menschen in der Kunst Cézanne." Die Kunst und das schöne Heim, no. 9 (June 1957), p. 339, ill.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, p. 31, fig. 27.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 50, ill.
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1975, no. 1764, ill. p. 61, as The Artist's Son, Paul.
Kelder, Diane. The Great Book of French Impressionism. New York: Abbeville Press, 1980, p. 404, ill.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 11, ill. in color.
Skedsmo, Tone. "Omkring et portrett malt av Paul Cézanne." Kunst og Kultur,, no. 1 (1991), fig. 1.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 285, fig. 1.
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. 649, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de Paul Cézanne, fils de l'artiste.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 34, fig. 1.19, as Portrait de Paul Cézanne, fils de l'artiste.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 250; vol. 2, p. 168, as Portrait de Paul Cézanne, fils de l'artiste.
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, p. 13, fig. 4, as Portrait de Paul Cézanne, fils de l'artiste, dated c. 1885–90.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 23, fig. 6.
Cezanne, Jas de Bouffan: art et histoire. Under the scientific direction of Denis Coutagne and François Chédeville. Lyon; Aix-en-Provence: Fage édition; Société Paul Cezanne, 2019, fig. 206 p. 214.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 219, ill., as Portrait de Paul Cezanne fils.
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 144.
Warman, Jayne. "Chronology." In Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2021, p. 360, ill., as The Artist's Son, Paul.
Notes
The rather formal portrait of the artist's son was probably painted at the Jas de Bouffan around the time of his parent's marriage on April 28, 1886.
Record last updated November 16, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Paul Cezanne, fils de l'artiste, 1886–87 (FWN 486)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=630 (accessed on January 14, 2025).
