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 3017-23a-TA
D'après Luca Signorelli: homme nu portant un cadavre, étude pour Les damnés
1867–70
Alternate titles: After Luca Signorelli: The Demon and the Damned, drawing known as The Living carrying the Dead; Copie nach Signorelli; Copy after Signorelli's 'Standing Man Carrying a Corpse on his Back'
Chappuis (182)
Graphite and red crayon on wove paper, page from the BSB sketchbook
7 1/16 x 9 7/16 in. (18 x 24 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 158, as Copie nach Signorelli, c.1880, lent by Kenneth Clark, London.
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September 19–November 4, 1973, no. 5, ill. in b/w, catalogue note: p. 151, as After Luca Signorelli: The Demon and the Damned, drawing known as The Living carrying the Dead, lent by Private collection. Traveled to: Hayward Gallery, London, November 13–December 30, 1973.
Arts Council of Great Britain, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom, Impressionist Drawings from British Public and Private Collections, March 11–April 20, 1986, no. 7, fig. 27. Traveled to: Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom, April 30–June 1, 1986; The Burrell Collection, Glasgow, United Kingdom, June 7–July 13, 1986.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, vol. I, p. 349, listed (Collection Clark).
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 39, cat. no. 251, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 182, ill., as After Luca Signorelli: The Demon and the Damned, drawing known as The Living carrying the Dead.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 306, no. 227, ill. c. 1870.
Elam, Caroline. "Modern Vision and the 'Older Masters': Roger Fry's Cézanne." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 167, fig. 94, as Copy after Signorelli's 'Standing Man Carrying a Corpse on his Back'.
Notes
Cezanne owned a photograph of the Signorelli drawing, now in the Atelier des Lauves.
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.
Record last updated October 13, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après Luca Signorelli: homme nu portant un cadavre, étude pour Les damnés, 1867–70 (FWN 3017-23a-TA), 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=1833 (accessed on February 6, 2025).