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 420
Garçon accoudé
1867–68
Alternate titles: Enfant à la veste bleue; Enfant accoudé; Garçon en blouse bleue; Knabe; Knabe in blauer Bluse; Knaben mit dem aufgestützten Kopf; Knabenbildnis; La pensée
Rewald (135): 1867–68; Venturi revised: c.1865; Venturi (109): 1868–70; Rivière: 1874
Oil on canvas
22 13/16 x 19 11/16 in. (58 x 50 cm)
Private collection, Geneva
Provenance
Exhibition History
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XIII. Jahrgang, Winter 1910/1911, V. Ausstellung, January 5–19, 1911, no. 6, as Knabe in blauer Bluse.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XIII. Jahrgang, Winter 1910/1911, VIII. Ausstellung, March 1911, no. 6, as Knabenbildnis.
Galerie Miethke, Dorotheergasse 11, Vienna, Französische Meister, January 19–February 1912, no. 17, as Knabenbildnis.
Galerie Miethke, Vienna, Die Neue Kunst, January 8–February 9, 1913, no. 22, as Knabenbildnis.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Aus Zürcher Privatsammlungen, November 1, 1914, no. 25, as Knabe (tentative identification).
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 4, as Garçon accoudé, lent by Joseph Müller.
Kunstverein, Solothurn, Switzerland, Hundert Jahre Malerei aus Solothurne Privatbesitz, September 23–November 26, 1950, no. 55, ill., as Garçon en blouse bleue, lent by Muller.
Kunstmuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland, Europäische Meister, 1790–1910, June 12–July 24, 1955, no. 26, as Garçon accoudé, lent by Josef Müller, Solothurn.
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Paul Cézanne, August 22–October 7, 1956, no. 6, lent by Private collection, Switzerland.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, June–September 1983, no. 4, as Garçon accoudé, lent by Private collection.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 9, ill. shown in Paris only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Kunst über Grenzen. Die Klassische Moderne von Cézanne bis Tinguely und die Weltkunst - aus der Schweiz gesehen, March 7–May 30, 1999, no. 4, ill.
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne und die Moderne, October 10, 1999–January 9, 2000, no. 3, ill., (dated 1866), as Garçon accoudé.
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 77, ill. lent by Private collection.
Published References
Béral, Jean. "Impressionnistes: Cézanne." Art et Littérature, no. 1 (February 5, 1901), p. 7, as Enfant à la veste bleue.
Pietsch, Ludwig. "Der Tod von Uhdes." Vossische Zeitung (Berlin), March 5,1911, No. 109.
Stern, Friederich. "Feuilleton: Kunstdämmerung." Neues Wiener Tagblatt (Tages-Ausgabe) (January 26, 1912), p. 2, as Knabenbildnis.
A.F.S. "Die Neue Kunst." Neue Freie Presse (Wien) (January 15, 1913), p. 11, as Studienkopf.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 104.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 123, as Knaben mit dem aufgestützten Kopf, c. 1872.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 201, listed.
Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, ill. oppositep. 116, ill.
Bernard, Émile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne, Une Conversation avec Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1926, ill. opposite p. 70.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XVII.
Sterling, Charles. "Cézanne et les maîtres d'autrefois." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 19, nos. 5-6 (May–June 1936), pp. 10 et 14, fig. 6, as Enfant accoudé.
Huyghe, René. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 38 p. 166, as Enfant accoudé, c. 1870.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 109, ill. vol. II, as Garçon accoudé.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 17, listed.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 4, as Garçon accoudé, 1867-69.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 330.
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. 135, ill. vol. 2, as Garçon accoudé.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Kollektionen von Paul Cézanne, Ferdinand Hodler, Leopold Kalckreuth […]: März 1911." In Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1910-1912 vol. 5, "Verheissung und Erfüllung zugleich". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2016, p. 246, ill.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 191, ill., as La pensée.
Record last updated April 6, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Garçon accoudé, 1867–68 (FWN 420)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=145 (accessed on April 23, 2024).
