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 2111
Nu
c.1869
Alternate titles: Etude pour L'Autopsie; Homme nu; Male Nude; Nu masculin; Nu masculin (étude pour L'Autopsie); Sitzender männlicher Akt; Study for The Autopsy
Chappuis (110): c.1865
Charcoal with stumping on laid paper
12 5/8 x 19 3/16 in. (32 x 48.7 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 8, ill., as Study for The Autopsy, c. 1867-69, The Art Institute of Chicago. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Master Drawings from the Art Institute of Chicago, October 17–November 30, 1963, no. 107.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1944–1970 by Margaret Day Blake, April 28–June 7, 1970, no. 33, ill.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 65, ill. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 3, ill. p. 94, as Sitzender männlicher Akt, 1865–67, lent by The Art Institute Chicago.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 75, ill., as Male Nude, shown in London only. Traveled to: Musée d'Orsay, Cézanne: les années de jeunesse 1859-1872, Paris, September 19, 1988–January 1, 1989; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., January 29–April 30, 1989.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Undressed: The Fashion of Privacy, June 22–September 29, 2013.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 21, ill. 1867–69, shown in Chicago only. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Neumeyer, Alfred. Cézanne's Drawings. New York and London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1958, no. 4, ill.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 63, ill.
Longstreet, Stephen. The Drawings of Cézanne. Los Angeles: Borden Publishing Company, ill.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 24, ill.
Ikegami, Chuji. "The Drawings of Paul Cézanne." Bijutsushi 76 (1970), no. 76, p. 132, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 110, ill., as Male Nude.
Ballas, Guila. "Paul Cézanne et la revue 'L'Artiste.'" Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 98, periode 6 (December 1981), pp. 224-225 and 231, fig. 13 p. 228, as Nu masculin, c. 1865.
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 32, ill., as Etude pour L'Autopsie, c. 1865.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 281, fig. 2, as Nu, 1865.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "La montée de Cézanne à Paris." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 18.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "Cézanne and the Louvre." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 101, fig. 55, as Study for The Autopsy.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Nu, c.1869 (FWN 2111)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1758 (accessed on May 2, 2025).
