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Foundation Calvet – Musée Calvet; © Alban Rudelin
FWN 3017-12a
Portrait d'Eugène Delacroix
1864–66
Alternate titles: Bildnis Eugène Delacroix; Portrait de Delacroix; Portrait of Eugène Delacroix; Retrato de Eugène Delacroix
Chappuis (155)
Graphite and soft crayon on wove paper, page from the BSB sketchbook (fragment)
5 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. (14.6 x 12 cm)
Bears signature: P. Cezanne
Bears the stamp of the Rignault collection (Lugt 2218).
Musée Calvet, Avignon (Gift of Joseph Rignault)

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Provenance
Joseph Rignault, Avignon;
Musée Calvet, Avignon (1947)
Exhibition History
1973 Newcastle upon Tyne and traveling
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September 19–November 4, 1973, no. 3, ill. in b/w, catalogue note: p. 149, as Portrait of Eugène Delacroix, lent by Musée Calvet, Avignon. Traveled to: Hayward Gallery, London, November 13–December 30, 1973.
1978 Tübingen
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 25, ill. p. 119, as Bildnis Eugène Delacroix, 1864-1866, lent by Musée Calvet, Avignon.
1982 Liège and traveling
Musée Saint-Georges, Liège, Belgium, Cézanne, March 12–May 9, 1982, no. 37, ill., as Portrait d'Eugène Delacroix, 1864-66, lent by Musée Calvet, Avignon. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 12–August 31, 1982 (exhibition catalogue; preface by Denis Coutagne).
1982 Aix-en-Provence
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne, June 12–August 31, 1982, no. 37, ill., as Portrait d'Eugène Delacroix, 1864-66, lent by Musée Calvet, Avignon.
1984 Madrid
Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Paul Cézanne, March 9–April 1984, no. 65, ill., as Retrato de Eugène Delacroix, 1864-1866, lent by Musée Calvet, Avignon.
1995–96 Paris and traveling
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 22, ill. in color, p. 121, as Portrait de Delacroix, c. 1870-1871, lent by Musée Calvet, Avignon. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
2017 Basel
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 23, ill.
Published References
Lichtenstein 1966
Lichtenstein, Sara. "Unpublished Portrait of Delacroix, and Some Figure Sketches, by Cézanne." Master Drawings, vol. 4, no. 1 (1966), p. 39, pl. 33 p. [97], with Durieu photographs of Delacroix (figs. 2 and 3), drawing dated early 1870s.
Chappuis 1973
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 155, ill., as Portrait of Eugène Delacroix.
Venturi 1978
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 49, ill., as Portrait d'Eugène Delacroix, 1864-66.
Coutagne et al. 1984a
Coutagne, Denis, et al. "Catalogue des oeuvres de Cézanne conservées au musée Granet d'Aix-en-Provence." In Cézanne au Musée d'Aix. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1984, ill. p. 224.
Kendall 1988
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 307, ill.
Pissarro 2005
Pissarro, Joachim. Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–85. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 46, fig. 32.
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol.1, fig. 59; vol. 2, p. 60, as Portrait d'Eugène Delacroix.
Notes

Chappuis (1973, p. 82) suggests that this portrait was drawn after a photograph of Delacroix by Eugène Durieu, with whom he collaborated on a series of photographs of nude models.

Record last updated May 17, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait d'Eugène Delacroix, 1864–66 (FWN 3017-12a), page from the BSB sketchbook (fragment)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1806 (accessed on April 29, 2024).