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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)
Catalogue entry
FWN 456
Portrait du fils de l'artiste
1875
Alternate titles: Head of a Child; Head of a child (tête d'enfant); Portrait of Paul, the Artist's Son; Portrait of the artist's son, Paul; Tête d'enfant
Rewald (464): c.1880; Venturi revised: c.1880; Rivière: c.1877; Machotka et al: c.1887
Oil on canvas
6 11/16 x 5 7/8 in. (17 x 15 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3808, tête coupée au ras de cou, 17 x 15 cm
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
George Viau, Paris;
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, Mar. 21–22, 1907, no. 17
Michael and Sarah Stein, Paris and Palo Alto (Mar. 21, 1907);
Sarah Stein, Palo Alto (1938)
Stendhal Gallery, Los Angeles
James Vigeveno, Ojai (1954)
[Lilienfeld Gallery, New York]
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, New York (by 1958);
Mrs. Rose Pearlman, New York;
Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, New York (1981)
Exhibition History
1910a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910, no. 41, as Tête d'enfant, lent by M. Stein.1937 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 9, ill., as Head of a child (tête d'enfant), lent by M/M Michael Stein.1958 Baltimore
The Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, Anonymous Collection [Pearlman Collection], July–September 1958, no. 27, ill.1959 Cambridge, Mass.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Drawings, Watercolors and Oils by Paul Cézanne, Lent by an Anonymous Collector, July 1–September 1, 1959, no. 2.1959g New York
Knoedler Galleries, New York, A loan exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors and Sculpture from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman for the benefit of Greenwich House, January 27–February 21, 1959, no. 2, ill. in b/w, as Portrait of the artist's son, Paul, 1880.1963b New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Cézanne and Structure in Modern Painting, June–August 1963.1964 Brooklyn
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, The Pearlman Collection, May 22–October 15, 1964, no. 15.1967 Detroit
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Cézanne and His Contemporaries: The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman Collection, June 14–October 1, 1967, no. 2.1970 Hartford
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Expressionism: The Mr. & Mrs. Henry Pearlman Collection of Works, June 10–October 4, 1970, no. 2.1970–71 New York and traveling
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family, December 19, 1970–March 1, 1971, p. 155. Traveled to: Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, April 4–June 14, 1971; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Frnacisco, California, September 9–October 31, 1971.1971a New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Summer Loan 1971: Paintings from New York Collections: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman and the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, July 13–September 7, 1971, no. 2.1974 Brooklyn and traveling
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, Paintings, Watercolors, Sculptures and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, May 22–September 29, 1974, no. 2, (dated 1880), as Portrait of Paul, the Artist's Son. Traveled to: Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, December 8, 1974–March 14, 1975; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, April 13–August 31, 1975; Francine and Sterling Clark Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, September 26, 1975–February 22, 1976; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, April 6–May 30, 1976.2011–12 San Francisco and traveling
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, May 21–September 6, 2011, pl. 128, cat. 9 (Stein coll.), as Portrait of Paul, the Artist's Son, c. 1880, lent by The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation. Traveled to: Grand Palais, Paris, October 5, 2011–January 16, 2012 (see Paris 2011-12a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 21–June 3, 2012.2011–12a Paris
Grand Palais, Paris, Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso ... L'aventure des Stein, October 5, 2011–January 16, 2012, no. 41, ill., as Portrait du fils de l'artiste, c. 1880, lent by The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation.2014–16 Oxford and traveling
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection, March 13–June 22, 2014, no. 4, ill. c. 1880. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, July 11–October 5, 2014; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, October 25, 2014–January 11, 2015; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, February 7–May 18, 2015; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, September 12, 2015–January 3, 2016.Published References
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 206, listed.Art News 1937b
"California Exhibits Cézanne." The Art News 36, no. 2 (October 9, 1937), p. 15, ill., as Head of a Child.Cézanne 1946
Cézanne, Paul. Letters. Oxford: B. Cassirer, 1946, pl. 33.Venturi 1951
Venturi, Lionello. "Giunte a Cézanne." Commentari 2, no. 1 (January–March 1951), p. 47.Kendall 1988
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 89, 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. 464, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait du fils de l'artiste.Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 124; vol. 2, p. 95, as Portrait du fils de l'artiste.Parker 2011
Parker, Robert McD. "Catalogue of the Stein Collections." In The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avent-Garde, edited by Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 396, no. 9, pl. 128, as Portrait of Paul, the Artist's Son.Machotka 2011b
Machotka, Pavel. "I ritratti di Cézanne: il volto umano della grande pitura." In Cézanne: les ateliers du midi. Milan: Skira, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 88, fig. 55.Simms 2014a
Simms, Matthew. "Cézanne, Painting, and Harmony." In Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 135, fig. 82 (cat. 4).Elderfield 2017
Elderfield, John. "La lecture du modèle." In Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 25, fig. 10.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. 7.Armstrong 2018
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 83, 1880.Notes
Cézanne fils could not be more than about 3 years old when this portait was executed.
Record last updated January 4, 2022. 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, 1875 (FWN 456)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=950 (accessed on April 26, 2024).
