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Catalogue entry

FWN 3014-34b
Cinq hommes autour d'un feu
c.1859
Alternate title: Five men around a fire
Chappuis (45)
Graphite on wove paper squared for transfer, p. 34 verso from the CdeJ sketchbook
5 15/16 x 9 3/16 in. (15 x 23.3 cm)
Musée d'Orsay, held in the Musée du Louvre, département des arts graphiques, Paris (RF29949,34)

Keywords

Provenance
Pierre Berès, Paris
Musée du Louvre, Paris (1953);
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Published References
Chappuis 1973
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 45, ill., as Five men around a fire.
Ruppen 2021
Ruppen, Fabienne. "Constructing Drawings: On Cezanne's Use of Artists' Materials." In Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 1.
Notes

Cezanne probably intended to transpose this drawing into a painting, evidenced by its squaring.

Record last updated May 9, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Cinq hommes autour d'un feu, c.1859 (FWN 3014-34b), squared for transfer, p. 34 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=1691 (accessed on May 1, 2025).