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Catalogue entry

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)
Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett

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Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Werner Feuz, Bern
Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett (1934)
Exhibition History
1973 Newcastle upon Tyne and traveling
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.
1979 Rome
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 22a, ill., p. 34.
2017 Basel
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 44, ill.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, vol. I, p. 351, listed (Museum Basel).
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 45, fig. 68.
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. 6, ill.
Reff 1964
Reff, Theodore. "Copyists in the Louvre." The Art Bulletin 46, no. 4 (December 1964), p. 555.
Andersen 1967b
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 1973
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 1989
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, p. 163, fig. 92.
Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 289, no. 100, ill.
Andersen 2004
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 57, fig. 38.
Lewis 2012
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).

Vase décoré et d'après Poussin: nymphe, 1882–85 (FWN 3017-30b). Nicolas Poussin, Echo et Narcisse, oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Nicolas Poussin, Echo et Narcisse, oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Photo: Martine Beck-Coppola; © 2011 Musée du Louvre
Record 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 25, 2024).