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)
FWN 3008-16b
Etude d'après un monument
1878–80
Alternate titles: Boeddhabeeld; Etude de monument funeraire; Monument funéraire; Studie nach einem Grabdenkmal (Etude de monument funéraire); Study of a Monument
Rewald (W64); Venturi revised: 1872–77; Venturi (870): 1879–85
Graphite, ink, and watercolor on wove paper, p. XVI verso from the CP II sketchbook
4 15/16 x 8 9/16 in. (12.6 x 21.7 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Teekeningen van Ingres tot Seurat, December 20, 1933–January 21, 1934, no. 12, as Boeddhabeeld.
Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam, Fransche meesters uit de XIX eeuw: teekeningen, aquarellen, pastels [...], July–August 1938, no. 3.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 105, ill., as Studie nach einem Grabdenkmal (Etude de monument funéraire), 1878-85, lent by Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam (Inv.-No. F II 211). Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.
Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Nineteenth-century French drawings from the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, December 16, 1986–January 25, 1987, no. 7, ill. Traveled to: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, February 16–April 12, 1987; Kimbell Art Museum, Forth Worth, April 25–June 14, 1987.
The Drawing Center, New York, Creative Copies: Interpretative Drawings from Michelangelo to Picasso, April 9–July 23, 1988, no. 64, ill., as Study of a Monument.
Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Impressionism: through clear eyes, September 19–November 29, 1992, no. 11, ill.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 49, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 870, ill. vol. II, as Monument funéraire.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, listed p. 154.
Hoetink, Bernard. Franse Tekeningen uit de 19e Eeuw. Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, 1968, no. 29, ill.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 64, ill.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 245, fig. 2, as Etude d'après un monument, 1878-1880.
Eiling, Alexander, Anett Göthe, Astrid Reuter, Bettina Kaufmann, Eva-Maria Höllerer, Juliane Betz and Julia Lachenmann. "Catalog." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 186-187, no. 21 recto, ill.
Chédeville, François. "Datation des copies de sculptures réalisés par Cezanne (I)." March 22, 2018, as Etude de monument funeraire, 1875–77.
Related
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Chappuis II (CP II), 1871–98 (3008)
Sketchbook Chappuis II (CP II), 1871–98 (3008)
The sketchbook originally contained 50 sheets; the pages are numbered on the "a" side at lower right in Roman numerals.
At the time of Chappuis' purchase from Paul Guillaume, the sketchbook was incomplete and a number of pages already dispersed and are still missing.
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Record last updated June 29, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Etude d'après un monument, 1878–80 (FWN 3008-16b), p. XVI verso from the CP II sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1041 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
