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)
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© 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)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 10, British Museum.
Published References
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 180, ill., as Studies.
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.
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.
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 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&sketchbook=3017 (accessed on May 2, 2025).
