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Catalogue entry

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)
Musée d'Orsay, held in the Musée du Louvre, département des arts graphiques, Paris (29949,38)

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Provenance
Pierre Berès, Paris
Musée du Louvre, Paris (1953);
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Exhibition History
1974b Paris
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 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 45, listed p. 157.
Chappuis 1965
Chappuis, Adrien. "Cézanne dessinateur: copies et ilustrations." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 66, periode 6 (November 1965), fig. 35.
Andersen 1967b
Andersen, Wayne V. "Cézanne's Portrait Drawings from the 1860's." Master Drawings, vol. 5, no. 3 (Autumn 1967), p. 266, pl.15a.
Chappuis 1973
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 2003
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 2004
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.

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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 April 16, 2024).