Catalogue entry

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)

Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett

Keywords

Figure compositions
Historical and Allegorical:
- Biblical »
Figure compositions
Individual subject:
- man / homme »
- woman / femme »
Studies
After paintings and works on paper:
- Veronese »
Studies
Details:
- hand / main »

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. 14, ill., p. 27.

2017 Basel

Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 34, ill.

Published References

Venturi 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, vol. I, as verso of no. 1580.

Berthold 1958

Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 46, cat. no. 268, fig. 79.

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. 27, ill.

Chappuis 1973

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 1989

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.

D'après Paul Véronèse: Esther et une des filles de Loth, 1866–69 (FWN 3017-16a). Paulo Veronese, L'evanouissement d'Esther (Esther before Ahasuerus), oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre.

Paulo Veronese, L'evanouissement d'Esther (Esther before Ahasuerus), oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre.

D'après Paul Véronèse: Esther et une des filles de Loth, 1866–69 (FWN 3017-16a). 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.

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.

Record 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&sketchbook=3017 (accessed on May 5, 2024).