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 497
Le Garçon au gilet rouge
1888–90
Alternate titles: Boy in a Red Waistcoat; Boy in the Red Vest; Boy with a Red Vest; Boy with red Vest; Garçon au gilet rouge; Il farsetto rosso; Knabe mit roter Weste; L'homme au gilet rouge; L'Italien au gilet rouge; Le Gilet rouge; Ritratto del signor
Rewald (659): 1888–90; Venturi revised: c.1895; Venturi (682): 1890–95; Cooper: 1893–94; Gowing: 1888–90; Reff: early 1890s (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
36 3/16 x 28 11/16 in. (92 x 73 cm)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4349, Portrait de jeune homme italien debout (voir le No. 4157), 92 x 73 cm (3000 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 534, Annotated: 1888
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910, no. 25, as Le Gilet rouge, lent by E. Fabbri.
Biennale, Venice, Italy, Mostra Individuale di Paul Cézanne, April 15–October 31, 1920, no. 9, (dated 1880), as Il farsetto rosso, lent by Fabbri.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne, February 6–March 6, 1921, no. 34, as L'Italien au gilet rouge, lent by Fabbri.
Paul Rosenberg, Paris, Le grand siècle, June 15–July 11, 1936, no. 5, as L'homme au gilet rouge, 1895, lent by Private collection.
New Burlington Galleries, London, Exhibition of Masters of French 19th Century Painting, October 1–31, 1936, no. 94, as Garçon au gilet rouge, lent by Private collection.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, French Figure Pieces of the XIXth Century, March 29–April 10, 1937, no. 17, ill.
Department of Fine Arts, Treasure Island, San Francisco, Golden Gate International Exposition: Masterworks for five centuries, February 18–October 29, 1939, no. 137, ill., as Boy with red Vest, lent by Mr. Jakob Goldschmidt, New York.
New York World's Fair, New York, Masterpieces of Art, May–October 1940, no. 347, ill., as Boy with a Red Vest, lent by Jakob Goldschmidt.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, French Painting from David to Toulouse-Lautrec, February 6–March 26, 1941, no. 8, fig. 46.
Paul Rosenberg, New York, A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Cézanne (1839-1906) for the Benefit of Fighting France, November 19–December 19, 1942, no. 18, ill. lent by Goldschmidt.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Four Centuries of Portraits, July–September 1945, no. 34.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 53, ill. lent by Goldschmidt.
Durand-Ruel, New York, What They Said: Postscript to Art Criticism, November 28–December 17, 1949, no. 10, ill.
Philadelphia Museum of Arts, Philadelphia, Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, Masterpieces of Painting, November 4, 1950–February 11, 1951, no. 83, ill., as Boy with a Red Vest, lent by J. Goldschmidt.
Greenwich House Music School Committee, New York, The Jakob Goldschmidt Collection, 1953, no number, p. 2.
Orangerie, Paris, De David à Toulouse-Lautrec: Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections américaines, April 20–July 5, 1955, no. 3, pl. 66, lent by J. Goldschmidt.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, March 18–May 1, 1966, no. 70, ill.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 24. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Art for the Nation, March 17–June 16, 1991, no number, ill., pp. 236–37.
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Cézanne: Aufbruch in die Moderne, September 18, 2004–January 16, 2005, listed p. 232, ill. p. 53, as Le Garçon au gilet rouge.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, September 14, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 38, fig. 29, pp. 28, 340, as Le Garçon au gilet rouge. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, February 17–May 13, 2007; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, June 19–September 16, 2007.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Modigliani y su tiempo, February 5–May 18, 2008, no. 2, ill., as Boy in a Red Waistcoat.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 45, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 15.1, ill. Traveled to: National Portrait Gallery, London, October 26, 2017–February 11, 2018; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, March 25–July 1, 2018.
Published References
Natanson, Thadée. "Paul Cézanne." La Revue Blanche 9, no. 50 (December 1, 1895), p. 498.
Henraux, Lucien. "I Cézanne della raccolta Fabbri." Dedalo vol. 1, no. 1 (1920), ill. p. 57, as Ritratto del signor, 1878.
L.[ucien] H.[enraux]. "Une grande collection de Cézanne en Italie: la collection Egisto Fabbri." L'Amour de l'art 5, no. 11 (November 1924), ill. p. 339, as L'homme au gilet rouge, 1878.
Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1936, fig. 7.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 682, ill. vol. II, as Garçon au gilet rouge.
Davidson, Martha. "Figure Pieces by the French Masters." Art News 35 (April 3, 1937), p. 12, ill.
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.
Wehle, Harry B. "French Painting from David to Toulouse-Lautrec." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 36, no. 2 (February 1941), p. 34, as Boy in the Red Vest.
Rousseau, Théodore, Jr. "Cézanne as an Old Master." Art News 51 (April 1952), p. 31, ill.
Hofmann, Werner. Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). Munich, Vienna, Basel: Kurt Desch, 1953, pl. 26, as Knabe mit roter Weste, 1890-95.
Rousseau, Théodore, Jr. Paul Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1953, pl. 26.
Rousseau, Théodore, Jr. Art et Style. 34, De David à Toulouse-Lautrec dans les collections et musées américains. Paris, 1st trimester, 1955, ill. in color (n.p.), as Garçon au gilet rouge.
Saarinen, Aline B. "A Painting That Tells Modern Art's Story." New York Times Magazine, November 2, 1958, p. 16, ill.
Haftmann, Werner. Malerei im 20. Jahrhundert: eine Bild-Enzyklopädie. Munich: Prestel, 1965, listed p. 405, fig. 1 p. 17, as Knabe mit roter Weste, 1890-5 (Private collection, USA).
Goldwater, Robert J. "The Glory That Was France." Art News 65, no. 1 (March 1966), p. 42, ill.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 184.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 33, with comments.
Brettell, Richard. "The Bartletts and the 'Grande Jatte:' Collecting Modern Painting in the 1920s." Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 12, no. 2 (1986), fig. 7.
Rewald, John. "Paintings by Paul Cézanne in the Mellon Collection." In Essays in Honor of Paul Mellon, Collector and Benefactor, edited by John Wilmerding. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1986, pp. 310–13, fig. 13.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 25, 49, 337, fig. 5.
Wattenmaker, Richard et al. Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, p. 116, fig. 3.
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. 659, ill. vol. 2, as Le Garçon au gilet rouge.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Zur Rezeptionsgeschichte Cézannes in Deutschland." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel,
Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 147, ill.
Jensen, Robert. "Vollard and Cézanne: An Anatomy of a Relationship." In Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 28, fig. 29 (detail), as Boy in a Red Waistcoat.
Wavrin, Isabelle de. "Ambroise Vollard: les recettes d'un marchand d'art de légende." Beaux-arts magazine (Paris) 277 (July 2007), p. 60, ill., as Garçon au gilet rouge.
Bardazzi, Francesca, ed. Cézanne in Florence: Two Collectors and the 1910 Exhibition of Impressionism. Translated by John Venerella. Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, p. 264, fig. 28, as Le Garçon au gilet rouge, Fabbri copy ill. p. 145.
Santulli, Michele. Modelle e modelli ciociari nell'arte europea a Roma, Parigi, Londra nel 1800/1900. Arpino: Edizioni Ciociaria Sconosciuta, p. 132, fig, 55 and pl. III (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. 59, as Le Garçon au gilet rouge.
Harris, Neil. Capital Culture: J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2013, p. 418.
Morton, Mary. "Paul Mellon: Private collector for the public." In Collecting for the Public: Works that Made a Difference. Essays for Peter Hecht. London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2016, cover, p. 35, 36 fig. 12.
Tapié, Alain. "Cézanne, la pensée piente." In Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 97, ill.
France-Lanord, Hadrien. La couleur et la parole: les chemins de Paul Cézanne et de Martin Heidegger. Paris: Gallimard, 2018, ill. p. 56, as Le Garçon au gilet rouge.
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. 199, fig. 1, as Boy in a Red Waistcoat.
Record last updated July 5, 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 497)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=640 (accessed on November 23, 2024).
