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 519
Portrait de fillette
c.1896
Alternate titles: Mädchenbildnis; Portrait of a girl; Ritratto di ragazza
Rewald (807): c.1896; Venturi revised: c.1897; Venturi (676): 1894–95; Vollard: c.1900 (Cahiers d'Art)
Oil on canvas
21 5/8 x 18 1/8 in. (55 x 46 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3663, huile, portrait d'enfant ton gris general, 56 x 46 cm (100 frs)
Vollard C stockbook: no. 7107, Tête de jeune fille, 55 x 45 cm
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 150, (dated c. 1895), as Mädchenbildnis, lent by Zambaccian.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 26, ill., as Portrait de fillette. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni, March 7–July 7, 2002, listed p. 202, ill., as Ritratto di ragazza, lent by Museum of Fine Arts, Bucarest.
Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, Cézanne & Giacometti: Paths of Doubt, February 20–June 29, 2008, no. 45, ill. p. 272, as Portrait de fillette, lent by National Museum of Art or Romania, Bucharest.
Published References
Vollard, Ambroise. "Souvenirs sur Cézanne." Cahiers d'art 6, nos. 9–10 (1931), p. 390, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 676, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de fillette.
Guerry, Liliane. "Le Problème de l'équilibre spatial dans les portraits cézanniens de la période constructive." Etudes d'Art, no. 2 (1946), fig. 4.
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. 807, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de fillette.
Verdi, Richard. "Vienna and Zürich: Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 142, no. 1168 (July 2000), fig. 59, as Portrait of a girl, c. 1895.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 358; vol. 2, p. 230, as Portrait de fillette.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 195, fig. 59.
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. 66.
Record last updated October 19, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de fillette, c.1896 (FWN 519)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=783 (accessed on January 22, 2025).
