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)
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© The Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania, USA/ The Bridgeman Art Library
FWN 693
Jeune homme à la tête de mort
1896–98
Alternate titles: Bildnis eines jungen Mannes vor einem Totenkopf; Boy with a Skull; Boy with Skull; Der Junge mit dem Totenkopf; Der junge Philosoph; Jeune homme au crâne; Jeune homme et la Mort; Jongen met doodskop; Junge mit Totenkopf; Junger Mann mit Totenkopf; Jüngling mit Totenkopf; L'Apprenti philosophe; Le jeune homme à la tête de mort; Le jeune philosophe; Le philosophe; The Young Philosopher; Young Man and Skull; Young man with a skull
Rewald (825): 1896–98; Venturi revised: 1897–1900; Venturi (679): 1894–96; Rivière: 1895
Oil on canvas
51 3/16 x 38 3/8 in. (130 x 97.5 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 4187, jeune homme à la tête de mort
Vollard X stockbook: no. 5331, L'apprenti philosophe
Vollard archives: photo no. 413, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1897
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Figures de Cézanne, June 27–July 23, 1910, no. 7, as L'Apprenti philosophe.
Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany, Sammlung G.F. Reber, mid-May–mid-June, 1913, no. 6, as Der junge Philosoph.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XV. Jahrgang, 1912–1913, Dritte Ausstellung, Sammlung Reber, Beginning January - January 20, 1913, no. 27, as Der junge Philosoph.
Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, Cinquante ans de peinture française, 1875-1925, May 28–July 12, 1925, no. 15, as Jeune homme à la tête de mort, 1890, lent by Reber.
Galerie Thannhauser, Vereinshaus der Berliner Künstler, Berlin, Erste Sonderausstellung in Berlin, January 9–mid-February, 1927, no. 27, ill., as Junge mit Totenkopf, lent by Reber.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The museum's first loan exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, November 8–December 7, 1929, no. 7, ill., (dated after 1890), as Boy with a Skull, lent by Reber.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Vincent van Gogh en zijn tijdgenooten, September 6–November 2, 1930, no. 123, as Jongen met doodskop, lent by Reber, Lausanne.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, French Art, January 4–March 12, 1932, no. 549, as Le jeune philosophe, lent by Dr. Reber, Lausanne; Commemorative Catalogue: no. 280, pl. 140.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation, May 2–August 15, 1993, no number, pp. 150–53, ill. pp. 151, 152 (detail). Traveled to: Musèe d'Orsay, Paris, November 6, 1993–January 2, 1994; National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, January 21–April 3, 1994; Kimbell Art Museum, Forth Worth, Texas, April 24–August 16, 1994; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, September 17–December 31, 1994; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, January 29–April 1995; Haus der Kunst, Munich, June 23–October 22, 1995.
Published References
K.[irstein], [Gustav]. "Ausstellungen." Kunstchronik: Wochenschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe Neue Folge XXIV, no. 16 (January 17, 1913), col. 230.
"A Private Collection in Germany That Contains Fourteen Examples of the Art of Paul Cezanne, a Great Modern, Who Already Is Placed with the Old Masters, in Darmstadt." New York Times, July 6, 1913, p. 15, as The Young Philosopher.
Waldmann, Emil. "Die Sammlung Reber." Kunst und Künstler 11, no. 9 (1913), p. 449-450, ill. p. 445.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. opposite p. 184.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Die doppelte Kurve." In Ganymed: Blätter der Marées-Gesellschaft 1. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1919, ill. between pp. 32-33, as Junge mit Totenkopf.
Popp, Anny E. "Cézanne, Elemente seines Stiles, anlässlich einer Kritik erortert." Die bildenden Künste: Wiener Monatshefte (Vienna) II (1919), ill. p. 187, as Der Junge mit dem Totenkopf, Reber collection, Munich.
Bernard, Émile. "La technique de Paul Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 1, no. 8 (December 1920), ill. p. 278, as Le philosophe.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, p. 19, pl. p. 20, as Jeune homme et la Mort.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 225.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Zur Berliner Cézanne-Ausstellung 1921." In Ganymed: Jahrbuch für Kunst 4. Munich: R. Piper & Co., Verlag der Marées-Gesellschaft, 1922, ill. between pp. 272-273, as Bildnis eines jungen Mannes vor einem Totenkopf.
Klingsor, Tristan L. Cézanne. Paris: Rieder, 1923, pl. 22, as Jeune homme à la tête de mort.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 220, listed.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, p. 30, pl. [5] hors texte, as Jeune homme et la Mort.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 113, as Jüngling mit Totenkopf, after 1890.
"[Ausstellung Galerie Thannhauser]." Der Querschnitt 7, no. 2 (February 1927), ill. between pp. 136 and 137, as Der junge Philosoph, Slg. Reber, Lugano.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. LXXXVI.
Waldemar-George. "Cézanne: 1930." Formes: revue internationale des arts plastiques, no. 4 (April 1930), p. 20-21, as Jeune homme à la tête de mort.
"[Special issue:] L'exposition d'art français à Londres." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 156 (January 1932), ill. p. 44, as Le jeune homme à la tête de mort.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 143, ill.
Huyghe, René. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 58 p. 176, as Le jeune homme à la tête de mort, c. 1888.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 679, ill. vol. II, as Jeune homme à la tête de mort.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 142, p. 259, ill. (analysis pp. 368–72).
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 143, ill.
Ramuz, Charles Ferdinand. L'exemple de Cézanne suivi de Pages sur Cézanne: dessins et peintures. Lausanne: Mermod, 1951, ill. p. 65, as Jeune homme à la tête de mort.
Sweeney, James Johnson. "The Albert C. Barnes Collection." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 3, no. 2 (Autumn 1972), p. 32, pl. 14.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 47, ill.
De Mazia, Violette. "Creative Distortion III: In Portraiture." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 4, no. 2 (Autumn 1973), pl. 1.
De Mazia, Violette. "E Pluribus Unum." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 7, no. 1 (Spring 1976), pl. 7.
De Mazia, Violette. "E Pluribus Unum, Cont'd." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 7, no. 2 (Autumn 1976), pp. 11–31, pls. 66, 67.
De Mazia, Violette. "E Pluribus Unum – Cont'd: Part III." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 8, no. 1 (Spring 1977), pl. 6.
Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 8.
Reff, Theodore. "Painting and Theory in the Final Decade." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 18 ill.
De Mazia, Violette. "The Barnes Foundation: The Display of Its Art Collection." Vistas 2, no. 2 (1981–83), pp. 111, 116.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne: The Severed Head and the Skull." Arts Magazine 58, no. 2 (October 1983), p. 97, fig. 15.
Ely, Bruno. "Cézanne, L'Ecole de dessin et le Musée d'Aix." In Cézanne au Musée d'Aix. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1984. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 196, compared with a painting by Granet.
Von der Heydt Museum. Der westdeutsche Impuls 1900–1914, Kunst und Umweltgestaltung im Industriegebiet, Stadtenwicklung, Sammlungen, Austellungen. Günter Aust, ed.. Wuppertal: Von der Heydt Museum, 1984. Exhibition catalogue, p. 148, ill., as Junger Mann mit Totenkopf, ex-Reber collection.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 219, fig. 112.
Gasquet, Joachim. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne. Translated by C. Pemberton. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991, p. 53, ill.
Kosinski, Dorothy. "G. F. Reber: Collector of Cubism." The Burlington Magazine 133, no. 1061 (August 1991), p. 521 mentioned, as Young man with a skull.
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. 825, ill. vol. 2 and p. 44, ill. col. vol. 1, as Jeune homme à la tête de mort.
Schmidt, Katharina. "Cézannes letztes Stilleben." In Cézanne, Picasso, Braque: Der Beginn des kubistischen Stillebens. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 1998. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 13.
Clark, T.J. "Phenomenality and Materiality in Cézanne." In Material Events: Paul de Man and the Afterlife of Theory, ed. by Tom Cohen et al. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001, p. 111, fig. 9.
Kropmanns, Peter, and Uwe Fleckner. "Von kontinentaler Bedeutung: Gottlieb Friedrich Reber und seine Sammlungen." In Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: französische Kunst in deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, edited by Andrea Pophanken and Felix Billeter. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001, listed p. 388.
Giles, Laura, and Carol Armstrong, eds. Cézanne in Focus, Watercolors from The Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection. Pricneton, N.J.: Princeton University Art Museum, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, p. 107, fig. 2.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 185, fig. 4.36, as Jeune homme à la tête de mort.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Gemälde: Formate und Themen, Echtheitsfragen." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 234, ill.
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. Études cézanniennes. Paris: Flammarion, 2006, p. 24, fig. 7, as Jeune homme au crâne.
Conisbee, Philip. "The Atelier des Lauves." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 241, fig. 15, as Jeune homme à la tête de mort.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 361; vol. 2, p. 232, as Jeune homme à la tête de mort.
Bernstein, Roberta. "Cézanne and Johns: 'At Every Point in Nature There Is Something to See.'" In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 464, fig. 17.1, as Boy with Skull, dated c. 1895.
Kitschen, Friederike. "Melancholie und 'décoration.' Zur Stimmung im Werk Paul Cézannes." In Stimmung. Ästhetische Kategorie und künstlerische Praxis, edited by Kerstin Thomas. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2010, pl. 2.
Dolkart, Judith, Martha Lucy. The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2012, p. 227, ill. 223, comments by Judith Dolkart.
Ely, Bruno. "Cézanne and the Musée d'Aix." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 127, fig. 75, as Young Man and Skull.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. "Cézanne in the Studio." In The World Is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne. Hamilton, Ontario: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 200, fig. 3, as Young Man and Skull.
Leca, Benedict. "'The Painter of Apples': Cézanne, Still Life, and Self-Fashioning." In The World Is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne. Hamilton, Ontario: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 81, fig. 11, as Young Man and Skull.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Sammlung Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Barmen: Anfang Januar bis 20. Januar 1913." In Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1912-1914 vol. 6, "Eine neue Klassik". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2016, p. 124, ill.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 252, fig. 74.
Kitschen, Friederike. "Das Papierne Museum: Julius Meier-Graefe und die Vergegenwärtigung Paul Cézannes in Bild und Wort." In Julius Meier-Graefe: Grenzgänger der Künste, Becker, Ingeborg and Stephanie Marchal (editors). Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2017, p. 191, fig. 9 p. 192 (reproduction of ill. in Meier-Graefe 1918), as Junger Mann mit Totenkopf.
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. 62.
Brettell, Richard R. On Modern Beauty: Three Paintings by Manet, Gauguin and Cézanne. Los Angeles: Getty Publicatons, 2019, fig. 50, dated c. 1896–98.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 205, ill., as Jeune homme à la tête de mort.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, no. 55, pp. 274–81, as Young Man and Skull (catalogue notes by J-C Lebensztejn).
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 56.
Record last updated February 25, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Jeune homme à la tête de mort, 1896–98 (FWN 693)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=801 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
