Louis Guillaume

1879-1890

Paul Cezanne

Artist, French, 1839 - 1906

Shown from the chest up, a young boy wearing an aquamarine-blue jacket sits facing us in this vertical portrait painting. His body is slightly angled to our right and he looks just over our right shoulder. He has close-cropped, dark hair. His features and clothing are painted in patchworks of colors. For example, his pale face is painted with swipes of peach, straw yellow, stone blue, and olive green, especially around his large, dark eyes and small, cherry-red mouth. The scarf knotted around his neck is painted with daubs of light and azure blue, teal, putty gray, and white. His voluminous jacket has touches of red, blue, and lighter shades of green. He sits in a corner with walls washed with shades of aqua and turquoise. The rail of a brown chair curves behind his right shoulder, on our left, and is cut off by the left edge of the canvas. A cluster of darker green, leaf-like shapes suggest a design on the wall to our right.

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On View

West Building Main Floor, Gallery 84

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Chester Dale Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 55.9 x 46.7 cm (22 x 18 3/8 in.)
    framed: 88.9 x 78.7 cm (35 x 31 in.)

  • Accession

    1963.10.101

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Ambroise Vollard [1867-1939], Paris), by 1906; sold c. 1904-1907 to Egisto Fabbri [1866-1933], Florence.[1] (Wildenstein & Co., London, New York and Paris); sold 14 December 1927 to Chester Dale [1882-1962], New York; bequest 1963 to NGA.
[1]See John Rewald, The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: a Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1996, no. 421, citing entries in Vollard's stock book regarding this painting.
[2]Date and source of Chester Dale acquisition according to Chester Dale papers in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1906

  • Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1906

1910

  • Cezanne, Galerie A. Vollard, Paris, 1914, no. 31, repro.

1920

  • XII Esposizione International d'Arte, Venice, 1920, no. 23

1928

  • Paul Cezanne, Wildenstein Galleries, New York, 1928, no. 20.

1963

  • The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC., 1965, unnumbered checklist.

2017

  • Cézanne Portraits, Musée D'Orsay, Paris; National Portrait Gallery, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2017-2018, no. 9.1, repro. (shown only in Washington).

Bibliography

1920

  • Henraux, Lucien. "Cézanne della Raccolta Fabbri. Dedalo 1 (June 1920): repro. p. 65.

1927

  • Zervos, Christian. "Idéalisme et naturalisme dans la peinture moderne." Cahiers d'Art 2, no. 10 (1927): repro.

1929

  • Dale, Maud. Before Manet to Modigliani from the Chester Dale Collection. New York, 1929: no. 56, repro.

1936

  • Venturi, Lionello. Cezanne, son art, son oeuvre. 2 vols. Paris, 1936.

1942

  • French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 69, repro.

1944

  • French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1944: 69, repro.

1953

  • French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1953: 79, repro.

1963

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 327, repro.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 25.

  • Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 118, repro.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 18, repro.

1970

  • Orienti 1970, no.497.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 60, repro.

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 503, no. 747, color repro.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 80, repro.

1996

  • Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: a catalogue raisonné. 2 vols. New York, 1996:no. 421, repro.

2007

  • Bardazzi, Francesco, ed. Cézanne in Florence: Two Collectors and the 1910 Exhibition of Impressionism. Exh. cat. Palazzo Strozzi, Florence. Milan, 2007: 261 fig. 14.

Wikidata ID

Q7232289

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