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Catalogue entry

FWN 495
Le Garçon au gilet rouge
1888–90
Alternate titles: Boy in the Red Vest; Garçon au gilet rouge; Le modèle italien Michel-Ange di Rosa
Rewald (657): 1888–90; Venturi revised: c.1895; Venturi (680): 1890–95; Rivière: 1888; Cooper: 1893–94; Gowing: 1888–90; Reff: early 1890s (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
31 15/16 x 25 5/8 in. (81.2 x 65 cm)

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Claude Monet, Giverny (1895);
Michel Monet, Giverny
Paul Rosenberg, Paris
Mrs. A. Chester Beatty, London
Paul Rosenberg, Paris and New York (March 1955)
David and Peggy Rockefeller, New York (June 1955);
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1955)
Exhibition History
1895 Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895, Monet buys.
1955b New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections, May 31–September 7, 1955, no. 21, p. 8, lent by D. Rockefeller.
1959c New York
Knoedler Galleries, New York, A Family Exhibit, April 6–25, 1959, no. 6, ill.
1961a New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Masterpieces: A Memorial Exhibition for Adele R. Levy, April 6–May 7, 1961, no. 39, ill.
1961 Cambridge, Mass.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Works of Art from the Collections of the Harvard Class of 1936, June 11–August 25, 1961, no. 8, pl. XI.
1963c New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1963, no. 3.
1968a New York
Center for Inter-American Relations, New York, 1968.
1968 Buenos Aires and traveling
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina Republic, Una exposición organizada bajo los auspicios del International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 15–June 5, 1968, no number, ill. Traveled to: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, June 26–July 17, 1968; Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, August 4–25, 1968.
1994 New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Masterpieces from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection, June 9–September 6, 1994, ill., p. 30, p. 72.
2021a New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 226, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Published References
Natanson 1895
Natanson, Thadée. "Paul Cézanne." La Revue Blanche 9, no. 50 (December 1, 1895), p. 498.
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 216, listed.
Huyghe 1936b
Huyghe, René. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 80, as Le modèle italien Michel-Ange di Rosa, c. 1888.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 680, ill. vol. II, as Garçon au gilet rouge.
Rewald 1936e
Rewald, John. Cézanne et Zola. Paris: Editions A. Sedrowski, 1936, fig. 65.
Rewald 1937a
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 54, as Garçon au gilet rouge.
Georges-Michel 1942
Georges-Michel, Michel. Peintres et sculpteurs que j'ai connus, 1900–1942. New York: Brentano's, 1942, pp. 34–35.
Bazin 1945
Bazin, Germain. "Cézanne devant l'impressionnisme." Labyrinthe 2, no. 17 (February 15, 1945), p. 7, ill.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 116, listed p. 164.
Barr 1955
Barr, Jr., Alfred H. "Paintings from Private Collections." Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art 22, no. 4 (Summer 1955), pp. 5, 11, ill.
Beucken 1955
Beucken, Jean de. Un portrait de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, [1955], p. 237.
Saarinen 1958
Saarinen, Aline B. "A Painting That Tells Modern Art's Story." New York Times Magazine, November 2, 1958, pp. 16, ill.
Murphy 1968
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 92.
Elgar 1969
Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1969, pp. 134–36.
Venturi 1978
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 121, ill.
Potter 1984
Potter, Margaret. The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection. New York: [privately published], 1984, pp. 162–66, no. 50, ill.
Rewald 1986b
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 198, ill.
Lévêque 1988
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 223, ill. in color.
Wattenmaker et al 1993
Wattenmaker, Richard et al. Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, p. 116, fig.1
Cachin and Rishel 1995
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 49, ill.
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. 657, ill. vol. 2, as Le Garçon au gilet rouge.
Feilchenfeldt 2005b
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Sammler. Von Zola bis Annenberg." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 195, ill.
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 257; vol. 2, p. 170, as Le Garçon au gilet rouge.
Lanchner 2011
Lanchner, Carolyn. 10 Works by Paul Cézanne in the Museum of Modern Art Collection. MoMA Artists Series. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2011, pp. 16–18, ill.
Santulli 2011
Santulli, Michele. Modelle e modelli ciociari nell'arte europea a Roma, Parigi, Londra nel 1800/1900. Arpino: Edizioni Ciociaria Sconosciuta, (the sitter is Michele de Rosa, born June 11, 1875).
Semmer 2011b
Semmer, Laure-Caroline. "'Le Garçon au gilet rouge': Le pari de la figure." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 125, fig. 56, as Le Garçon au gilet rouge.
Patin 2016
Patin, Sylvie. Monet's Private Picture Gallery at Giverny. Montreuil: Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2016, p. 129, ill.
Elderfield, Morton, Rey 2017
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 163, fig. 47.
Lobstein 2017
Lobstein, Dominique. "Paul Cézanne in the Monet Collection." In Monet Collectionneur [Monet, The Collector]. Vanves: Editions Hazan, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 168–72, fig. 35.
Mathieu and Lobstein 2017
Mathieu, Marianne, and Dominique Lobstein with the collaboration of Claire Gooden. "Vue synoptique de la collection Monet." In Monet Collectionneur [Monet, The Collector]. Vanves: Editions Hazan, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 268, listed and ill.
Patin 2017
Patin, Sylvie. "Cézanne et Monet." In Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 58, fig. 3.
Elderfield, Morton, Rey 2017a
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. London and Princeton, N,J.: National Portrait Gallery Publications and Princeton University Press, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 52.
Dombrowski, Ireson and Patry 2021
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 200, fig. 3, as Boy in the Red Vest.

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Record last updated October 21, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Garçon au gilet rouge, 1888–90 (FWN 495)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=638 (accessed on March 28, 2024).