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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)
Catalogue entry
FWN 3017-14a
D'après Delacroix: La Pietà
1866–67
Alternate titles: After E. Delacroix: The entombment; Dessin d'après la mise au tombeau de Delacroix; Pièta; The Entombment; The Entombment, after the painting by Delacroix in Saint-Denis du Saint Sacrement, Paris
Chappuis (167)
Soft pencil on wove paper, page from the BSB sketchbook
7 1/16 x 9 7/16 in. (18 x 24 cm)
Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Paul Guillaume, Paris
Kenneth Clark, London
Sir Michael Sadler, Oxford
F.A. Drey, London
St George's Gallery, London
Baron Ferenc Hatvany, Budapest/London (March 1945)
Christie's, London, July 1, 1980, no. 109, ill.
The British Museum, London (1980)
Exhibition History
1944a London
The Leicester Galleries, London, Selected Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture from the Collection of the late Sir Michael Sadler, January–February 1944, no. 4, as Pièta.1986 Oxford and traveling
Arts Council of Great Britain, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom, Impressionist Drawings from British Public and Private Collections, March 11–April 20, 1986, no. 6, fig. 25. Traveled to: Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom, April 30–June 1, 1986; The Burrell Collection, Glasgow, United Kingdom, June 7–July 13, 1986.1996b London
British Museum, London, French Drawings in the British Museum, 1996.2006–07 London
National Gallery, London, Cézanne in Britain, October 4, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 5, ill., as The Entombment, after the painting by Delacroix in Saint-Denis du Saint Sacrement, Paris.2012–13 Budapest
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 24, ill. lent by British Museum.2014 London
Tate, London, Kenneth Clark Looking for Civilisation, May 19–August 10, 2014, no. 45, lent British Museum.Published References
Chappuis 1973
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 167, ill., as After E. Delacroix: The entombment.Lichtenstein 1975
Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne's Copies and Variants after Delacroix." Apollo (London) 101, no. 156 (February 1975), fig. 3, p. 116, as The Entombment.Ballas 1981
Ballas, Guila. "Paul Cézanne et la revue 'L'Artiste.'" Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 98, periode 6 (December 1981), pp. 224 and 231, fig. 3 p. 225, as Dessin d'après la mise au tombeau de Delacroix, 1866-1867.Lewis 1989
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, p. 127, fig. 62.Bätschmann 2017
Bätschmann, Oskar. "Cézanne's Dream of Delacroix's Apotheosis." In The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas. Basel: Prestel, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 180, fig. 2.Notes
This sketch was probably made after the engraving of Delacroix's Pietà by Hédouin for L'Artiste, III1, 1845, p. 80.
Eugène Delacroix, La Pietà, encaustic mural, Eglise Saint-Denys-du-Saint-Sacrement, Paris.
Record last updated March 23, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après Delacroix: La Pietà, 1866–67 (FWN 3017-14a), 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=1818&sketchbook=3017 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
