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 3017-20a
Deux hommes; femme à côté d'un cerceuil
1866–67
Alternate titles: Deux hommes, femme près d'un cercueil; Skizzenblatt mit zwei Figuren in Schrittstellung und zwei trauernden Frauen; Two men; woman beside a coffin
Chappuis (175)
Soft pencil on wove paper, page from the BSB sketchbook
7 x 9 1/16 in. (17.8 x 23 cm)
Exhibition History
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 90, ill., as Deux hommes, femme près d'un cercueil, 1866-67, lent by Kupferstichkabinett Basel. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 9, ill. p. 101, as Skizzenblatt mit zwei Figuren in Schrittstellung und zwei trauernden Frauen, 1866-1867, lent by Kunstmuseum Basel.
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 21, ill., p. 33.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 46, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, vol. I, p. 351, listed (Museum Basel).
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. 38, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 175, ill., as Two men; woman beside a coffin.
Related work
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 March 14, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Deux hommes; femme à côté d'un cerceuil, 1866–67 (FWN 3017-20a), 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=1826 (accessed on April 24, 2025).
