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Catalogue entry

FWN 2202
Dessins composant un rébus
May 3, 1858
Alternate titles: Drawings composing a rebus; Lettres de Cézanne à Zola (9 Mai 1858)
Chappuis (17)
ink on a letter to Emile Zola
Measurements unknown
Private collection, France

Keywords

Provenance
Émile Zola, Médan, France;
Mme Alexandrine-Emile Zola, Paris;
Eugène Fasquelle, Paris;
M. et Mme Le Blond-Zola, Paris;
Private collection
Exhibition History
1939 Lyon
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 78, as Lettres de Cézanne à Zola (9 Mai 1858), lent by Eugène Fasquelle.
1939d London
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, Autograph letters: no. 01, lent by Eugène Fasquelle.
Published References
Chappuis 1973
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 17, ill., as Drawings composing a rebus.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer 2003
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 56, fig. 2.2
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer 2004
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. "Cézanne and His Friends at Jas de Bouffan." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 28.
Cézanne 2013
Cézanne, Paul. The Letters of Paul Cézanne. Edited and translated by Alex Danchev. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson; Getty Publications, 2013, p. 52, ill.
Friedman 2021
Friedman, Samantha. "Condensation: Cézanne's Study Sheets." In Cézanne Drawing. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, p. 22, fig. 3.
Notes

The rebus, as explained by Chappuis (1973, p. 59): a scythe (une faux), a hedge (une haie), a May tree (un arbre de mai), two women (les femmes) – il faut aimer les femmes.

Record last updated April 15, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Dessins composant un rébus, May 3, 1858 (FWN 2202), on a letter to Emile Zola." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1663 (accessed on May 3, 2025).