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© President and Fellows of Harvard College
FWN 3004-x1b
Etudes d'après l'Ecorché et de visage d'homme en profil
1866–70
Alternate title: Studies, including L'Ecorché, and a Man's face in profile
Chappuis (185)
Graphite on wove paper, page from an early sketchbook
4 3/4 x 8 1/4 in. (12.1 x 21 cm)
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA (Bequest of Richard B. Sisson and through the generosity of Anthony and Celeste Meier)

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Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
New Gallery [E.V. Thaw], New York
James Lord, Paris and New York
Richard P. Sisson, New York (by 1965);
Harvard Art Museums, Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA (2005)
Exhibition History
1956 Bowdoin
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Collecting Privately, 1956, no. 13.
Published References
Chappuis 1973
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 185, ill., as Studies, including L'Ecorché, and a Man's face in profile.
Lewis 2017
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "Flayed Figures and Plaster Casts: Cézanne's Ecorchés, their Origins and Progeny." In Cézanne and the past : tradition and creativity [international symposium, Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, 28 January 2013]. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2017, fig. 2.
Notes

Chappuis (1973, p.89) suggested that the profile is probably copied from a portrait of Frédéric Chopin. 

Etudes d'après l'Ecorché et de visage d'homme en profil, 1866–70 (FWN 3004-x1b). Anonymous after Michelango (attributed), Écorché, dit de Michel-Ange, 16th century, plaster cast, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris. Cezanne had a modern reproduction in his Les Lauves studio.
Anonymous after Michelango (attributed), Écorché, dit de Michel-Ange, 16th century, plaster cast, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris. Cezanne had a modern reproduction in his Les Lauves studio.
Photo: Jean-Michel Lapelerie; © École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts

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Record last updated March 14, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Etudes d'après l'Ecorché et de visage d'homme en profil, 1866–70 (FWN 3004-x1b), page from an early sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1836 (accessed on May 1, 2025).