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 3014-09b
Etudes dont un soldat faisant la révérence
c.1858
Alternate titles: Personnages et visages caricaturés, et annotations; Studies with Geological Terms and Notations; Studies, including a soldier making a bow
Chappuis (19)
Graphite on wove paper, p. 9 verso from the CdeJ sketchbook
5 15/16 x 9 1/16 in. (15 x 23 cm)
Exhibition History
Centre Pompidou, Paris, Préhistoire: une énigme moderne, May 8–September 16, 2019, listed p. 288, ill. p. 24, as Personnages et visages caricaturés, et annotations.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings, March 7–June 14, 2020, fig. 96, facsimile shown, catalogue comments by Faya Causey. Traveled to: Royal Academy, London, July 12–October 18, 2020 (N.B. This venue was cancelled due to 2020 coronavirus).
Published References
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, listed p. 156 (listed as p. 11 verso).
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 19, ill., as Studies, including a soldier making a bow.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 160, fig. 4.16, as Studies with Geological Terms and Notations, dated c. 1858-60.
Byrd, Anne. "The Brush Stroke as Catastrophe: Gasquet's 'Cézanne' and the Paintings of Bibémus Quarry." RACAR; revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review 34, no. 1 (2009), p. 44, fig. 3.
Causey, Faya. "Marion's Geological Drawings." In Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Exhibition catalogue, p. 152, fig. 96.
Notes
The notations are geological terms, probably provided to Cezanne by Fortuné Marion, a childhood friend, but not in the artist's hand (see Causey, 2020).
The two caricatures of Chinese heads may have been studies for the painting FWN577, Scène religieuse.
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Paris I, 1857–1871 (3014)
Sketchbook Paris I, 1857–1871 (3014)
Both the front and back endpapers are of papier moiré. At one time the entire sketchbook was dismantled and reattached and possibly restored in 1960s or 1970s. The sheets were renumbered at lower right by the Louvre in the 1990s(?) in Arabic numerals, the pagination we are using here. Pages 30-39 are the only extant original 8-page quire.
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Record last updated June 11, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Etudes dont un soldat faisant la révérence, c.1858 (FWN 3014-09b), p. 9 verso from the CdeJ sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1665 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
