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 3014-36b
Etudes pour l'illustration d'Une Charogne et un couple
couple c.1858; studies 1866–69
Alternate titles: Studies for the illustration of Baudelaire's 'Une Charogne'; Studies for the illustration of Une Charogne, couple
Chappuis (145)
Graphite and ink on wove paper, p. 36 verso from the CdeJ sketchbook
5 15/16 x 9 1/16 in. (15 x 23 cm)
Exhibition History
Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne dans les musées nationaux, July 19–October 14, 1974, extended until October 28, no. 49, ill., as Etudes pour l'illustration d'Une Charogne et un couple, 1858-1869.
Published References
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 45, listed p. 157.
Chappuis, Adrien. "Cézanne dessinateur: copies et ilustrations." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 66, periode 6 (November 1965), fig. 35.
Andersen, Wayne V. "Cézanne's Portrait Drawings from the 1860's." Master Drawings, vol. 5, no. 3 (Autumn 1967), p. 266, pl.15a.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 145, ill., as Studies for the illustration of Une Charogne, couple.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 54, fig. 2.1, as Studies for the illustration of Baudelaire's 'Une Charogne'.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 59, fig. 40.
Notes
Chappuis identifies the "framed" scene as an interpretation of Charles Baudelaire's poem Une Charogne, No. XXX of Les Fleurs du Mal.
Related work
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 18, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Etudes pour l'illustration d'Une Charogne et un couple, couple c.1858; studies 1866–69 (FWN 3014-36b), p. 36 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=1796 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
