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 3017-10b
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.
Exhibition History
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 7a, ill., p. 20.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 30, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, vol. I, p. 350, 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. 35, ill.
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, 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, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 198, ill.
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, 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.
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 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&sketchbook=3017 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
