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Catalogue entry

FWN 3017-11a
D'après Delacroix: Sardanapale
1866–67
Alternate titles: After Eugène Delacroix: Sardanapalus; Figures from 'The Death of Sardanapalus' and other sketches
Chappuis (141)
Graphite and black crayon on wove paper, page from the BSB sketchbook
7 x 9 7/16 in. (17.8 x 24 cm)
Sotheby's, New York

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Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Wladimir Walter, Paris
Theodor and Woty Werner, Munich;
Private collection (1968)
Sotheby's, London, June 20, 2007, no. 111, ill.
Private collection;
Christie's, New York, November 13, 2021, no. 599
John Hollier, Gainesville;
Sotheby's, New York, February 23–March 5, 2024, no. 1271
Exhibition History
1936g Paris
Galerie Quatre Chemins, Paris, Dessins et aquarelles de Cezanne, June 26–July 11, 1936, n.n.
Published References
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 46, cat. no. 242, fig. 81.
Reff 1966
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne and Hercules." The Art Bulletin, vol. 48, no. 1 (March 1966), p. 40, note 74.
Chappuis 1973
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 141, ill., as After Eugène Delacroix: Sardanapalus.
Lichtenstein 1975
Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne's Copies and Variants after Delacroix." Apollo (London) 101, no. 156 (February 1975), fig. 12, p. 118, as Figures from 'The Death of Sardanapalus' and other sketches.
Chédeville 2020
Chédeville, François. "A propos des 'Études à partir de peintures assyriennes.'" Société Cezanne, November 16, 2020.
D'après Delacroix: Sardanapale, 1866–67 (FWN 3017-11a). Eugène Delacroix, La Mort de Sardanapale (The Death of Sardanapalus), oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre.
Eugène Delacroix, La Mort de Sardanapale (The Death of Sardanapalus), oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre.
Record last updated February 29, 2024. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après Delacroix: Sardanapale, 1866–67 (FWN 3017-11a), page from the BSB sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1792 (accessed on April 18, 2024).