The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
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Martin P. Bühler; © Kunstmuseum Basel - Martin P. Bühler
FWN 3017-16a
D'après Paul Véronèse: Esther et une des filles de Loth
1866–69
Alternate title: After Paul Véronèse: Esther and one of Lot's daughters
Chappuis (170)
Graphite on wove paper, page from the BSB sketchbook
6 7/8 x 9 7/16 in. (17.4 x 24 cm)
Exhibition History
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 14, ill., p. 27.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 34, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, vol. I, as verso of no. 1580.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 46, cat. no. 268, fig. 79.
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. 27, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 170, ill., as After Paul Véronèse: Esther and one of Lot's daughters.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, p. 77, fig. 33.
Notes
The figure of the woman at right is Esther and taken from Veronese's Esther and Ahasuerus; the figure at left is of one of Lot's daughters from Veronese's Lot's family fleeing Sodom.
Paulo Veronese, L'evanouissement d'Esther (Esther before Ahasuerus), oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre.
Studio of Paulo Veronese, La famille de Loth fuyant Sodome (Lot's Family fleeing Sodom), oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre. The original of the painting is held at the Kunsthistorische Museum in Vienna.
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 July 13, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après Paul Véronèse: Esther et une des filles de Loth, 1866–69 (FWN 3017-16a), 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=1821 (accessed on April 26, 2024).
