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Catalogue entry

© Trustees of the British Museum
FWN 3017-14b
Etudes
1869–72
Alternate titles: Figures from the Ceiling of Apollo; Studies
Chappuis (180)
Soft pencil on wove paper, page from the BSB sketchbook
7 1/16 x 9 7/16 in. (18 x 24 cm)
The British Museum, London (1980,0726.12)

Keywords

Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Paul Guillaume, Paris
Kenneth Clark, London
Sir Michael Sadler, Oxford
F.A. Drey, London
St George's Gallery, London
Baron Ferenc Hatvany, Budapest/London (March 1945)
Christie's, London, July 1, 1980, no. 109
The British Museum, London (1980)
Exhibition History
2021a New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 10, British Museum.
Published References
Chappuis 1973
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 180, ill., as Studies.
Lichtenstein 1975
Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne's Copies and Variants after Delacroix." Apollo (London) 101, no. 156 (February 1975), fig. 19, p. 121, as Figures from the Ceiling of Apollo.
Notes

The figure of Venus from the Apollo ceiling at the Louvre, a study for L'Après-midi à Naples and a dog.

Etudes, 1869–72 (FWN 3017-14b). Eugène Delacroix, Apollon vainqueur du serpent Python (Apollo killing the Python snake) central panel of the ceiling of the Galerie d'Apollon, Musée du Louvre.
Eugène Delacroix, Apollon vainqueur du serpent Python (Apollo killing the Python snake) central panel of the ceiling of the Galerie d'Apollon, Musée du Louvre.

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Record last updated June 9, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Etudes, 1869–72 (FWN 3017-14b), 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=1831 (accessed on April 26, 2024).