The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
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Martin P. Bühler; © Kunstmuseum Basel - Martin P. Bühler
FWN 3017-27a
D'après Delacroix: Plafond d'Apollon
1866–70
Alternate titles: Etude d'après Apollon vainqueur du serpent Python de Delacroix; Etudes d'après Delacroix, Plafond d'Apollon; Figures from the Ceiling of Apollo; Skizzenblatt mit Studien nach Delacroix; Studies after Delacroix's Ceiling of Apollo
Chappuis (195): 1967–70
Soft pencil on wove paper, page from the BSB sketchbook
6 x 8 in. (17.7 x 22.8 cm)
Exhibition History
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 149, ill. p. 246, as Skizzenblatt mit Studien nach Delacroix, 1867-1870, lent by Kunstmuseum Basel.
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 18, ill., p. 30.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: The Basel Sketchbooks, March 10–June 5, 1988, listed p. 145, fig. 13 p. 24.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 44, ill., as Etudes d'après Delacroix, Plafond d'Apollon, 1866-70, lent by Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 45, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, vol. I, p. 351, listed.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, cat. no. 241, 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. 32, ill.
Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne and Delacroix." The Art Bulletin 46, no. 1 (March 1964), p. 55, nos. 11 and 12.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 195, ill., as Studies after Delacroix's Ceiling of Apollo.
Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne's Copies and Variants after Delacroix." Apollo (London) 101, no. 156 (February 1975), fig. 17, p. 120, as Figures from the Ceiling of Apollo.
Ballas, Guila. "Cézanne et la Galerie d'Apollon au Louvre." Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français (1980), p. 261, fig. 7, as Etude d'après Apollon vainqueur du serpent Python de Delacroix, 1867-70.
Koepplin, Dieter. Paul Cézanne: Die Basler Zeichnungen. Basel: Kunstmuseum, 1988, no. 9, ill.
Gowing, Lawrence. Paul Cézanne: The Basel Sketchbooks. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1988. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 13 p. 24, listed p. 145, exhibited.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 303, no. 217, ill. 1867-70.
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 December 21, 2018. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après Delacroix: Plafond d'Apollon, 1866–70 (FWN 3017-27a), 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=1848 (accessed on April 19, 2024).
