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 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)
Provenance
Exhibition History
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections, May 31–September 7, 1955, no. 21, p. 8, lent by D. Rockefeller.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, A Family Exhibit, April 6–25, 1959, no. 6, ill.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Masterpieces: A Memorial Exhibition for Adele R. Levy, April 6–May 7, 1961, no. 39, ill.
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.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1963, no. 3.
Center for Inter-American Relations, New York, 1968.
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.
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.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 226, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Published References
Natanson, Thadée. "Paul Cézanne." La Revue Blanche 9, no. 50 (December 1, 1895), p. 498.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 216, listed.
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, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 680, ill. vol. II, as Garçon au gilet rouge.
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, Michel. Peintres et sculpteurs que j'ai connus, 1900–1942. New York: Brentano's, 1942, pp. 34–35.
Bazin, Germain. "Cézanne devant l'impressionnisme." Labyrinthe 2, no. 17 (February 15, 1945), p. 7, ill.
Barr, Jr., Alfred H. "Paintings from Private Collections." Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art 22, no. 4 (Summer 1955), pp. 5, 11, ill.
Saarinen, Aline B. "A Painting That Tells Modern Art's Story." New York Times Magazine, November 2, 1958, pp. 16, ill.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 92.
Potter, Margaret. The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection. New York: [privately published], 1984, pp. 162–66, no. 50, ill.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 223, ill. in color.
Wattenmaker, Richard et al. Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, p. 116, fig.1
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 49, ill.
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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, Sylvie. Monet's Private Picture Gallery at Giverny. Montreuil: Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2016, p. 129, ill.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 163, fig. 47.
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, 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, Sylvie. "Cézanne et Monet." In Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 58, fig. 3.
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, 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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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 April 18, 2024).
