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 2220
D'après Puget: Milon de Crotone et scène de genre: trois hommes allumant un feu de bois
Milo of Crotona, 1866–69; genre scene, 1870–73
Alternate titles: Le Milon de Crotone de Puget; Milon de Crotone; Milon de Crotone, d'après Puget; Studies including Milo of Croton; Studies, including the Milo of Crotona
Chappuis (207); Venturi (1448): 1879–82
Graphite on laid paper
9 3/8 x 12 5/16 in. (23.8 x 31.3 cm)
Bears stamp of the Koenigs collection
Exhibition History
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne et Paris, October 12, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 21, ill., p. 51, as Milon de Crotone, 1879-80, lent by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 28b, ill.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 9, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1448, ill. vol. II, as Le Milon de Crotone de Puget.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, pp. 46, 47, cat. no. 99, fig. 75.
Hoetink, Bernard. Franse Tekeningen uit de 19e Eeuw. Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, 1968, no. 19, verso ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 207, ill.
Schubert, Karsten. "Cézanne, Chappuis and the Limits of Connoisseurship." The Burlington Magazine 148, no. 1242 (September 2006), fig. 30, as Studies including Milo of Croton.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "La montée de Cézanne à Paris." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 51, ill.
Chédeville, François. "Datation des copies de sculptures réalisés par Cezanne (I)." March 22, 2018, as Milon de Crotone, d'après Puget, 1868–69.
Record last updated November 3, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après Puget: Milon de Crotone et scène de genre: trois hommes allumant un feu de bois, Milo of Crotona, 1866–69; genre scene, 1870–73 (FWN 2220)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1860 (accessed on February 7, 2025).
