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Catalogue entry

© 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; The Courtesans
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. (17.2 x 17.5 cm)

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Galerie E. Bignou, Paris
Barnes Foundation, Merion and Philadelphia (March 29, 1938)
Exhibition History
1937a London
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Cézanne, June 1937, no. 5, as Petits personnages, dated 1870–71.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 122, ill. vol. II, as Les Courtisanes .
Barnes and de Mazia 1939
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 1955
Beucken, Jean de. Un portrait de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, [1955], p. 112.
Lewis 1989
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, pp. 197–203, fig. 106.
Rewald 1996
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 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, pp. 142-44, 149, fig. 89.
Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, fig. 5 p. 17, p. 309, no. 253, ill., as Les Courtisanes , 1871-72.
Andersen 2003
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 2008
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 .
Dombrowski, Ireson and Patry 2021
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, no. 3, pp. 66–69, as The Courtesans (catalogue notes by J. Rishel and J. Warman).

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Record last updated November 18, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Les Courtisanes, c.1870–71 (FWN 603)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=153 (accessed on March 29, 2024).