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Catalogue entry

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)
Musée d'Orsay, held in the Musée du Louvre, département des arts graphiques, Paris (RF29949,15)

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Provenance
Pierre Berès, Paris
Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1953;
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Exhibition History
2019d Paris
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.
2020 Princeton and traveling
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 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, listed p. 156 (listed as p. 11 verso).
Chappuis 1973
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 2003
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 2009
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 2020b
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.

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 April 25, 2024).