The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
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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).
Exhibition History
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 23, ill.
Published References
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 "Unpublished Portrait of Delacroix, and Some Figure Sketches, by Cézanne."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, 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, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 49, ill., as Portrait d'Eugène Delacroix, 1864-66.
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.
Pissarro, Joachim. Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–85. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 46, fig. 32.
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.
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook 18 x 24, 1861–80 (3017)
Sketchbook 18 x 24, 1861–80 (3017)
The sheets have been widely dispersed. Because there is no pagination, the FWN numbers have been assigned an arbitrary sequence and the pages listed individually.
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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&sketchbook=3017 (accessed on April 29, 2024).
