The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
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FWN 2216
Marion et Valabrègue
1866
Alternate titles: Études pour Marion et Valabrègue partant pour le motif; Marion and Valabrègue; Skizzenblatt mit ganzfigurigen Studien Marions und Valabrègues
Chappuis (153)
Graphite on paper
11 x 7 9/16 in. (28 x 19.2 cm)
Exhibition History
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 27, ill. p. 120, as Skizzenblatt mit ganzfigurigen Studien Marions und Valabrègues, 1866, lent by Kunstmuseum Basel.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 67, ill.
Published References
Cézanne, Paul. Correspondance. Edited by John Rewald. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1937, letter XXI, pp. 97–101, does not mention this drawing but refers to the subject.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 45.
Chappuis, Adrien. Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle. Olten and Lausanne: Urs Graf, 1962, no. 5, ill.
Andersen, Wayne V. "Cézanne's Portrait Drawings from the 1860's." Master Drawings, vol. 5, no. 3 (Autumn 1967), pp. 265-266, pl. 14.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 242, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 153, ill., as Marion and Valabrègue.
Causey, Faya. "Finds." In Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press. Exhibition catalogue, p. 58, fig. 38, as Marion and Valabrègue, dated 1866.
Notes
Chappuis (1973, p. 81) noted that Marion's feet (at left) are seen drawn from above, while Valebrègue's in foreshortening. This difference is more apparent in the painting of the two men (FWN400). "For his foreground figures, Cézanne sometimes adopted the posture of saints on stained-glass windows and tympani in Romanesque art, where the treatment of the feet tends to bring the figure forward (foreshortening produces the opposite effect)." See, for example, FWN508, 668 and 670.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Marion et Valabrègue, 1866 (FWN 2216)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1804 (accessed on May 3, 2025).
