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 3017-32b
Etude d'un évêque
1866–67
Alternate titles: Études; From an undetermined work: mitred bishop
Chappuis (165); Venturi (1581): 1875–82
Soft pencil, numbers in ink on wove paper, page from the BSB sketchbook
6 x 9 7/16 in. (17.7 x 24 cm)
Calculations in the artist's hand
Exhibition History
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 19a, ill., p. 31.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 36, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1581, as Études.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, cat. no. 284, ill.
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. 26, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 165, ill., as From an undetermined work: mitred bishop.
Notes
François Chédeville has identified the source of Cezanne's sketchbook page (see supplementary view). The mathematical notations seem to be related to the artist's help with his son's mathematical equations, as suggested by M. Chédeville.
Anonymous Italian, beginning of the XVIth, century, Évêque debout, tenant sa crosse et lisant, 23 x 13,7 cm, INV 9873, Coll. Baldinucci, Reiset 449.
Photo courtesy F. Chédeville
Additional material / links
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.
Browse complete sketchbookRecord last updated November 1, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Etude d'un évêque, 1866–67 (FWN 3017-32b), page from the BSB sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1816 (accessed on April 19, 2024).
