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 2227
Feuille d'études dont un crâne
c.1868
Alternate titles: Crâne; Page of studies, including a skull; Sheet of Studies, including a Skull; Skull, Study
Chappuis (125B)
Graphite with splatters of watercolor on wove paper (fragment)
4 13/16 x 9 1/16 in. (12.2 x 23 cm)
Keywords
- Still-life objectsMiscellaneous:
- StudiesDetails:
- Technique and Condition:
- fragment »
Provenance
Exhibition History
Paul Cassirer Ltd, London, Paul Cézanne – Water Colours, July 1939, no. 3, as Skull, Study, dated c. 1880, lent by Private collection; Exhibited for the first time.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 4–August 4, 1953, no. 25, ill. p. [40], as Crâne, c. 1866, lent by Private collection, New York. Traveled to: Musée Masséna, Nice, France, August 8–September 12, 1953; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble, France, September 15–October 18, 1953.
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Collecting Privately, 1956, no. 12, ill.
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Mass., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium,, January 21–May 7, 2017, pp. 159, 284, repr. p. 158 as fig. 5.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 7, Harvard Art Museums.
Published References
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, p. 74, ill. (detail).
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 125B, ill., as Page of studies, including a skull.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 161, fig. 4.18, as Page of studies, including a skull.
Schneider, Thomas F. and Inge Jaehner, eds. Remarques Impressionisten: Kunstsammeln und Kunsthandel im Exil / Remarque's Impressionists: Art Collecting and Art Dealing in Exile. Göttingen and Bristol: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013, pp. 194-95, no. 11, ill.; p. 57 (list of artworks), c. 1938.
Aebi, Kiko and Abed Haddad. "Cut from the same cloth: a composite canvas by Paul Cezanne." The Burlington Magazine 164 (December 2022), fig. 4 (reconstitution of original sheet).
Record last updated September 23, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Feuille d'études dont un crâne, c.1868 (FWN 2227), (fragment)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1776 (accessed on May 3, 2025).
