The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
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FWN 3017-26a
D'après Delacroix: animal sauvage et figure en mouvement
1865–68
Alternate titles: After Delacroix: wild animal, and figure in movement; Copy after Delacroix: Tiger; study for 'The Orgy'; Skizze eines stürzenden Tigers, eines bärtigen Männerkopfes und eines Liebespaares; Tigre de Delacroix; ange en prière; Tigre et figure en mouvement, d'après Delacroix; Wild Animal from the Ceiling of Apollo and other sketches
Chappuis (194bis)
Black crayon on wove paper, page from the BSB sketchbook
7 1/16 x 9 7/16 in. (18 x 24 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
City Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom, Henry Roland Collection, 1962, no. 24. Traveled to: City Art Gallery, Leeds, United Kingdom.
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Modern Drawings from the H.R. Collection, 1968, no. 2.
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September 19–November 4, 1973, no. 4, ill. in b/w, catalogue note: pp. 149-151, as Copy after Delacroix: Tiger; study for 'The Orgy', lent by Dr. and Mrs. Henry Roland. Traveled to: Hayward Gallery, London, November 13–December 30, 1973.
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Von Pontormo bis zu Cézanne, February 15–April 17, 1995, p. 13, fig. 10b, as Skizze eines stürzenden Tigers, eines bärtigen Männerkopfes und eines Liebespaares, listed as verso.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 11 (not exhibited), Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, vol. I, p. 349, listed, as Tigre de Delacroix; ange en prière (Collection Clark).
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, cat. no. 340.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 194bis, ill., as After Delacroix: wild animal, and figure in movement.
Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne's Copies and Variants after Delacroix." Apollo (London) 101, no. 156 (February 1975), fig. 16, p. 120, as Wild Animal from the Ceiling of Apollo and other sketches.
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 597, no. 1425, ill. in color, as Tigre et figure en mouvement, d'après Delacroix, 1865-1868.
Notes
The wild animal is a detail from Delacroix's Apollo ceiling. The figure in motion might be a study for The Orgy (Ratcliffe, unpublished manuscript).
Eugène Delacroix, Apollon vainqueur du serpent Python (Apollo killing the Python snake) central panel of the ceiling of the Galerie d'Apollon, Musée du Louvre.
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.
Browse complete sketchbookRecord last updated July 14, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après Delacroix: animal sauvage et figure en mouvement, 1865–68 (FWN 3017-26a), 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=1847 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
