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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)
Catalogue entry
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
Kenneth Clark, London
Sotheby's, London, July 1, 1987, no. 415, ill.
Galerie Koller, Zurich, June 1993, no. 3076, ill.
Exhibition History
1936 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 158, as Copie nach Signorelli, c.1880, lent by Kenneth Clark, London.1973 Newcastle upon Tyne and traveling
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, 1973.1986 Oxford and traveling
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, vol. I, p. 349, listed (Collection Clark).Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 39, cat. no. 251, ill.Chappuis 1973
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 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 306, no. 227, ill. c. 1870.Elam 2012
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.
Luca Signorelli, Homme nu, debout, de dos, portant sur ses épaules un corps inerte (The Living Carrying the Dead), graphite, brown wash, and watercolor heightened with white on paper, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Photo: Michèle Bellot; © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre)
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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&sketchbook=3017 (accessed on May 4, 2024).
