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 3010-29b
L'Ecorché
1900–04
Alternate title: Michelangelesque Flayed Man
Rewald (W559)
Graphite and watercolor on wove paper, p. XXIX verso from the EH II sketchbook
5 x 8 1/2 in. (12.7 x 21.6 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 69, ill.
Published References
Rewald, John. Cézanne: Carnets de Dessins, 2 vols. Paris: Quatre Chemins-Editart, 1951, C IV, p. XXIX verso, pl. 155.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 23, cat. no. 65, ill.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 559, ill.
Shoemaker, Innis, and Theodore Reff. Paul Cézanne: Two Sketchbooks. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, p. 192 (Sketchbook II; page XXIX verso), ill., as Michelangelesque Flayed Man.
Anonymous after Michelango (attributed), Écorché, dit de Michel-Ange, 16th century, plaster cast, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris. Cezanne had a modern reproduction in his Les Lauves studio.
Photo: Jean-Michel Lapelerie; © École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts
Related work
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Philadelphia II, 1872–95 (3010)
Sketchbook Philadelphia II, 1872–95 (3010)
The front and back covers are of linen-covered board. Notation on back endpaper "LII x 2", indicating 52 recto and verso sheets. The pages are numbered in Roman numerals at the lower right corner of the recto ("a") in a soft blue-gray pencil. The sketchbook is unbound.
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current: L'Ecorché, 1900–04 (3010-29b)
Record last updated June 6, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Ecorché, 1900–04 (FWN 3010-29b), p. XXIX verso from the EH II sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1541 (accessed on April 26, 2025).
