Provenance
Paul Cezanne, Paris (son of the artist).
Paul Guillaume, Paris.
Sir Kenneth Clark, London (acquired from the above, 1934).
Eger collection, Paris.
Galerie Rousso, Paris.
Acquired by the Phillips family, by 1970.
Literature
L. Venturi, Cezanne: Son art—son oeuvre, Paris, 1936, vol. I, p. 325, no. 1475 (dated circa 1880-1885 and titled Quelques études).
G. Berthold, Cezanne und die alten Meister, Stuttgart, 1958, p. 142, no. 336 (titled Étude d'après le petit Paul, un marbre Delacroix).
A. Chappuis, "Cezanne dessinateur copies et illustrations" in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, November 1965, p. 296 (recto illustrated, fig. 9).
W. Andersen, Cezanne's Portrait Drawings, Cambridge, 1970, no. 152, (verso illustrated; dated circa 1882-1884).
A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cezanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1973, vol. I, pp. 193-194 (recto illustrated, vol. II, pl. 715; verso illustrated, vol. II, pl. 731, titled Page of Studies).
L. Venturi, Cezanne, Geneva, 1978, pp. 68-71, no. 7 (recto illustrated).
G. Ballas, Cezanne: Baigneuses et baigneurs, thème et composition, Paris, 2002, p. 305, no. 223 (verso illustrated).
W. Feilchenfeldt, J. Warman and D. Nash, The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné (www.cezannecatalogue.com), nos. FWN 2297 and 2293 (recto and verso illustrated).
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; The Art Institute of Chicago and Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Cezanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February-July 1971, p. 99, no. 68A (verso illustrated; titled Portraits of the Artist's Son and Studies after Engravings).
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Paul Cezanne, October-December 1978, p. 140, no. 46 (verso illustrated; dated 1880-1883 and titled Skizzenblatt mit drei Bildnisstudien Paul Cezanne).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Cezanne Drawing, June-September 2021, p. 208, no. 14 (verso illustrated).