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Catalogue entry

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
Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett

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Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Werner Feuz, Bern
Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett (1934)
Exhibition History
1979 Rome
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 19a, ill., p. 31.
2017 Basel
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 36, ill.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1581, as Études.
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, cat. no. 284, ill.
Chappuis 1962
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 1973
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.

Etude d'un évêque, 1866–67 (FWN 3017-32b). 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.
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
Record 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 May 2, 2025).