The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
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© The Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania, USA/ The Bridgeman Art Library
FWN 603
Les Courtisanes
c.1870–71
Alternate titles: Dancers Dressing; Four Women; Petits personnages
Rewald: (144) 1867–68 (possibly later); Venturi revised: c.1871; Venturi: (122) 1871–72
Oil on canvas
6 3/4 x 6 7/8 in. (17.1 x 17.5 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Cézanne, June, 1937, no. 5, as Petits personnages, dated 1870–71.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 122, ill. vol. II as Les Courtisanes .
Barnes, Albert C, and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 31, p. 167, ill. as Four Women.
Beucken, Jean de. Un portrait de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, [1955], p. 112.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, pp. 197–203, fig. 106.
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. 144, ill. vol. 2 as Les Courtisanes .
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, pp. 142-44, 149, pl. 89.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne, Baigneuses et Baigneurs. Thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 309, no. 253 (listed), ill. p. 17, fig. 5 as Les Courtisanes , dated 1871-72.
Andersen, Wayne V. The Youth of Cézanne and Zola: notoriety at its source: art and literature in Paris. Geneva and Boston: Editions Fabiart, 2003, p. 419, ill. as Dancers Dressing.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 24; vol. 2, p. 41 as Les Courtisanes .
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Record last updated July 9, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. "Les Courtisanes, c.1870–71 (FWN 603)." The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=153 (accessed on August 25, 2019).
