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 3012-03b
"Contentez mon désir", illustration pour Tartuffe
1866–70
Alternate titles: "Cachez ce sein..."; "Gratify my desire," illustration for Tartuffe; Dessin (illustration pour Tartuffe); Scene aus "Tartuffe"; Szenen aus: Tartuffe
Chappuis (132); Venturi (1191): 1868–71
Graphite on wove paper, page from the 13.3 x 21.1 sketchbook
5 1/4 x 8 5/16 in. (13.3 x 21.1 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 110, as Scene aus "Tartuffe", c. 1870, lent by Baron E. von der Heydt, Ascona.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 11, ill. p. 103, as Szenen aus: Tartuffe, 1866-1870, lent by Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 19, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1191, ill. vol. II, as "Cachez ce sein...".
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne, Flaubert, St. Anthony, and the Queen of Sheba." The Art Bulletin 44, no. 2 (June 1962), p. 121, note 80.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 132, ill., as "Gratify my desire," illustration for Tartuffe.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 30; vol. 2, p. 44, as "Gratify my desire," illustration for Tartuffe.
Ruppen, Fabienne. "Paul Cézanne's Loose Sheets in the Kupferstichkabinett of the Kunstmuseum Basel." In The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas. Basel: Prestel, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 222, fig. 2.
Ruppen, Fabienne. "Reassembling Cézanne: Material Evidence for a New Sketchbook." Master Drawings, vol. 55, no. 2 (Summer 2017), fig. 3, fig. 7 (digital reconstructed overlay of figs. 3 and 6) and fig. 13 (digital reconstructed overlay of figs. 3 and 4).
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 440, ill., as Dessin (illustration pour Tartuffe).
Notes
This drawing illustrates a scene from Molière's comedy Tartuffe; or The Imposter, Act. IV, Scene 5. Vollard reproduced the drawing in 1914 (see Bibliography) and incorrectly cited the setting as from Act III, Scene 2. Venturi adopted Vollard's title.
Related
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Fragment (13.3 x 21.1), 1866–95 (3012)
Sketchbook Fragment (13.3 x 21.1), 1866–95 (3012)
These individual sheets may come from different early sketchbooks, but are combined here because of their similar size.
The FWN numbers have been randomly assigned and are listed here as individual pages rather than as a sketchbook spread.
Browse complete sketchbookRecord last updated March 14, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. ""Contentez mon désir", illustration pour Tartuffe, 1866–70 (FWN 3012-03b), page from the 13.3 x 21.1 sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1783 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
