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Catalogue entry

FWN 3017-10b
Croquis du père de l'artiste, tête de femme et calculs
c.1866
Alternate titles: Sheet of Studies with Sketch of the Artist's Father reading a Newspaper; Sketch of the artist's father, head of a woman, and calculations
Chappuis (178)
Graphite and ink on wove paper, page from the BSB sketchbook
6 x 9 7/16 in. (17.7 x 24 cm)
Barely visible are the words: La mort c'est oubli / Le sommeil, la joie du malheureux / La mort est belle comme [une] l'espérance – qui a pu dire qu'elle avait les dents crochues? son sourire est doux comme le miel, ses yeux donnent le repos.
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. 7a, ill., p. 20.
2017 Basel
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 30, ill.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, vol. I, p. 350, listed (Museum Basel).
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. 35, ill.
Cooper 1963a
Cooper, Douglas. "Untitled." Review of Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle, by Adrien Chappuis. Master Drawings, vol. 1, no. 4 (Winter 1963), p. 55.
Andersen 1967b
Andersen, Wayne V. "Cézanne's Portrait Drawings from the 1860's." Master Drawings, vol. 5, no. 3 (Autumn 1967), p. 269 and 271, fig. 6 (p. 271 erroneously referred to fig. 3).
Andersen 1970
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 198, ill.
Brion 1971
Brion, Marcel. Cézanne. Milan: Fratelli Fabbri, 1971, ill. p. 15 (cropped).
Rewald 1971–72
Rewald, John. "Cézanne and His Father." Studies in the History of Art 4 (1971-1972), fig. 4, as Sheet of Studies with Sketch of the Artist's Father reading a Newspaper.
Chappuis 1973
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 178, ill., as Sketch of the artist's father, head of a woman, and calculations.
Record last updated March 24, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Croquis du père de l'artiste, tête de femme et calculs, c.1866 (FWN 3017-10b), 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=1829 (accessed on April 27, 2024).