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 3014-34b
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)
Published References
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, 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.
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 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&sketchbook=3014 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
