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Catalogue entry

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
Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett

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Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Werner Feuz, Bern
Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett (1934)
Exhibition History
1978 Tübingen
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.
1979 Rome
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 17, ill., p. 29.
2012–13 Budapest
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 28, ill.
2017 Basel
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 38, ill.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1585, ill. vol. II, as Études.
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, cat. no. 243, ill.
Chappuis 1962
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 1964a
Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne and Delacroix." The Art Bulletin 46, no. 1 (March 1964), no. 8–10.
Chappuis 1973
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 1975
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 et al. 1993
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 2013
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.

Etudes d'après Delacroix, 1867–70 (FWN 3017-24a). Eugène Delacroix, Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement (Women of Algiers in their Apartment), oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre.
Eugène Delacroix, Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement (Women of Algiers in their Apartment), oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre.
Etudes d'après Delacroix, 1867–70 (FWN 3017-24a). Eugène Delacroix, La Liberté guidant le peuple (Liberty Leading the People), oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre.
Eugène Delacroix, La Liberté guidant le peuple (Liberty Leading the People), oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre.
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 April 25, 2024).