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Catalogue entry

FWN 518
Jeune fille à la poupée
c.1895
Alternate titles: Girl with a Doll; La jeune Fille à la poupée
Rewald (806): c.1896; Venturi revised: c.1897; Venturi (675): 1892–96; Vollard: 1897 (1914) and 1894 (1923)
Oil on canvas
36 3/16 x 28 11/16 in. (92 x 73 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3864, huile; portrait de femme assise dans une chaise et tenant une poupée à la main (150 frs)
Vollard C stockbook: no. 7027, Jeune fille à la poupée, 92 x 73 cm
Vollard W stockbook: no. 3947, femme à la poupée; huile, 92 x 73 (100,000)
Vollard archives: photo no. [443]
Private collection, New York

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Georges Bernheim, Paris, and Jos. Hessel, Paris (1923)
Alphonse Kann, Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Michael Stewart, London
Arthur Tooth & Sons, London (1952)
Paul Rosenberg, Paris and New York (July 17, 1952)
Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., New York (October15,1955)
Heinz Berggruen, Paris;
Phillips, New York, May 7, 2001, no. 43, ill.; bought in
Private collection, New York
Exhibition History
1895 Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895, tentative identification.
1930a Paris
Galerie Pigalle, Paris, Exposition Cèzanne, 1839–1906, January 4–February 7, 1930, no. 29, as La jeune Fille à la poupée, lent by A. Kann.
1936c Paris
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 92, as Jeune fille à la poupée, lent by Kann.
1956–57 Portland and traveling
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., March 3–April 15, 1956, no. 86, ill., p. 130. Traveled to: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, April 28–May 27, 1955; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, June 12–July 1, 1956; Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, opening September 8, 1956; City Art Museum, St. Louis, October 19–November 19, 1956; William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, December 2–30, 1956; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, opening March 8, 1957; Institute of the Arts, Detroit; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
1960 Dayton
The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, French Paintings, 1789–1929: From the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., March 25–May 22, 1960, no. 71, p. 79.
1988 Geneva
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Collection Berggruen, June 16–October 30, 1988, no. 9, ill.
1991a London
National Gallery, London, Van Gogh to Picasso: The Berggruen Collection at the National Gallery, January–April 21, 1991, no. 22, ill., as Girl with a Doll, c. 1899.
1996–2000 Berlin
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin–Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Picasso und seine Zeit: Die Sammlung Berggruen, 1996–2000, no. 20, ill., p. 69.
2000–01 Berlin
Nationalgalerie Berlin, Berlin, Cézanne in Berlin. 28 Werke aus den Staatlichen Museen und aus Privatbesitz, October 6, 2000–January 14, 2001, no. 20, ill.
2017 Paris
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 52, ill.
2017–18 Paris and traveling
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 19.1, 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
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 27, as La jeune Fille à la poupée.
Fry 1917
Fry, Roger. "'Paul Cézanne' by Ambroise Vollard: Paris, 1915, A Review." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 31, no. 173 (August 1917), pl. III.
Vollard 1923
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne: His Life and Art. Translated by Harold L. van Doren. New York: Nicholas Brown, 1923, ill. opp. p. 176.
Arishima 1925
Arishima, Ikuma. Sezannu [Cézanne]. Tokyo: Ars, 1925, pl. 28.
Guenne 1936
Guenne, Jacques. "Paul Cézanne et le drame de la peinture." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 204 (1936), ill. p. [154].
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 675, ill. vol. II, as Jeune fille à la poupée.
Barnes and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 146, listed.
Arts 1956
"The Chrysler Collection." Arts 30, no. 6 (March 1956), p. 33, ill.
Gimpel 1963
Gimpel, René. Journal d'un collectionneur marchand de tableaux. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1963, p. 274 (entry dated Sept. 6, 1924).
Rewald 1986b
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 214, ill.
Du 1989
"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), p. 48, ill.
Kendall 1991
Kendall, Richard. Van Gogh to Picasso: The Berggruen Collection at the National Gallery. London: The National Gallery, 1991, pp. 82–83, no. 22, 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. 806, ill. vol. 2, as Jeune fille à la poupée.
Feilchenfeldt, C. 2000a
Feilchenfeldt, Christina. "Portraits." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 180, fig. 1, as Jeune fille à la poupée.
Notes

This portrait of a young girl was painted at the Jas de Bouffan.

Record last updated May 16, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Jeune fille à la poupée, c.1895 (FWN 518)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=782 (accessed on April 29, 2024).