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 3017-24a
Etudes d'après Delacroix
1867–70
Alternate titles: Etude d'après Femmes d'Alger de Delacroix; Études; Skizzenblatt mit Studien nach Delacroix; Studies after Delacroix
Chappuis (186); Venturi (1585)
Soft pencil on wove paper, page from the BSB sketchbook
6 15/16 x 9 3/8 in. (17.6 x 23.8 cm)
Notations in the artist's hand: Mater est p... nostr / regnum Jes [...] Christ / Virgo prudentia / Maria bellissima / virgo prudentia: ora pro nobis / sancta dei genitrix / ora pro nobis
Exhibition History
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 148, ill. p. 245, as Skizzenblatt mit Studien nach Delacroix, 1867-1870, lent by Kunstmuseum Basel.
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 17, ill., p. 29.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 28, ill.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 38, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1585, ill. vol. II, as Études.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, cat. no. 243, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle. Olten and Lausanne: Urs Graf, 1962, no. 31, ill.
Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne and Delacroix." The Art Bulletin 46, no. 1 (March 1964), no. 8–10.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 186, ill., as Studies after Delacroix.
Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne's Copies and Variants after Delacroix." Apollo (London) 101, no. 156 (February 1975), fig. 9, p. 118, as Studies after Delacroix.
Cuzin, Jean Pierre et al. Copier créer: de Turner à Picasso: 300 œuvres inspirées par les maîtres du Louvre. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, p. 253, fig. j (detail), as Etude d'après Femmes d'Alger de Delacroix.
Dombrowski, André. Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, p. 45, fig. 21.
Notes
The head of a woman in profile upper left is a copy of Delacroix's Women in Algiers and the head upper right is drawn after the fallen soldier in Liberty Leading the People, also by Delacroix.
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 January 10, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Etudes d'après Delacroix, 1867–70 (FWN 3017-24a), 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=1837 (accessed on October 23, 2024).