Boy in a Red Waistcoat

Provenance

(Ambroise Vollard [1866-1939], Paris); sold 1896 to Egisto Fabbri [1866-1933], Paris and Florence, until at least 1925;[1] (Paul Rosenberg, Paris, and Wildenstein Galleries, Paris); sold 1929 to Jakob Goldschmidt [d. 1955], Berlin and New York; his estate; (Goldschmidt sale, Sotheby's, London, 15 October 1958, no. 6); purchased by (Carstairs Gallery, New York) for Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1995 to NGA. [1]According to John Rewald, _The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: a Catalogue Raisonné_, New York, 1996, no. 659, Fabbri sold the picture back to Vollard in 1904 and repurchased it at a later date. Fabbri lent it to the 1925 exhibition in Paris.

Boy in a Red Waistcoat

Cezanne, Paul

1888-1890

Accession Number

1995.47.5

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 89.5 x 72.4 cm (35 1/4 x 28 1/2 in.) | framed: 118.43 × 100.33 × 11.11 cm (46 5/8 × 39 1/2 × 4 3/8 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art