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 3017-30b
Vase décoré et d'après Poussin: nymphe
1882–85
Alternate titles: Female nudes, decorated vase; Water Nymph after Poussin's 'Echo and Narcissus'
Chappuis (199): 1866–67; Other: 1868–72
Graphite on wove paper, page from the BSB sketchbook
6 x 9 1/4 in. (17.7 x 23.4 cm)
Exhibition History
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September 19–November 4, 1973, no. 6 verso, ill. in b/w, catalogue note: p. 151, as Female nudes, decorated vase, lent by Kunstmuseum Basel. Traveled to: Hayward Gallery, London, November 13–December 30, 1973.
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 22a, ill., p. 34.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 44, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, vol. I, p. 351, listed (Museum Basel).
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 45, fig. 68.
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. 6, ill.
Reff, Theodore. "Copyists in the Louvre." The Art Bulletin 46, no. 4 (December 1964), p. 555.
Andersen, Wayne V. "Cézanne's Portrait Drawings from the 1860's." Master Drawings, vol. 5, no. 3 (Autumn 1967), pp. 267-268, fig. 3.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 199, ill., as Female nudes, decorated vase.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, p. 163, fig. 92.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 289, no. 100, ill.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 57, fig. 38.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "Cézanne and the Louvre." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 100, fig. 54, as Water Nymph after Poussin's 'Echo and Narcissus'.
Notes
L. Gowing, Th. Reff and W.V. Andersen suggest that the woman's pose is inspired by the nymph of Poussin's painting Echo et Narcisse, Louvre, despite differences in the position of her legs.
Chappuis (1973, p. 93) relates the female's poses to one of the women in the left background of L'Enlèvement (FWN 590) and the decorated vase to one in Une Moderne Olympia (FWN614).
Nicolas Poussin, Echo et Narcisse, oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Photo: Martine Beck-Coppola; © 2011 Musée du Louvre
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 March 14, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Vase décoré et d'après Poussin: nymphe, 1882–85 (FWN 3017-30b), 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=1852 (accessed on April 27, 2025).
