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Catalogue entry

FWN 3014-08b
Homme auprès d'une femme endormie à la belle étoile
1868–71
Alternate titles: Man, near a woman lying asleep outdoors; Un homme près d'une femme endormie en plein air
Chappuis (246)
Ink with a reed pen on wove paper, p. 8 verso from the CdeJ sketchbook
5 15/16 x 9 1/16 in. (15 x 23 cm)
Musée d'Orsay, held in the Musée du Louvre, département des arts graphiques, Paris (RF29949,13)

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Provenance
Pierre Berès, Paris
Musée du Louvre, Paris (1953);
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Exhibition History
2020 Princeton and traveling
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings, March 7–June 14, 2020, fig. 95, facsimile shown, catalogue comments by Faya Causey. Traveled to: Royal Academy, London, July 12–October 18, 2020 (N.B. This venue was cancelled due to 2020 coronavirus).
Published References
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, listed p. 155 (listed as p. 10 verso).
Chappuis 1973
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 246, ill., as Man, near a woman lying asleep outdoors.
Ballas 1974
Ballas, Guila. "Daumier, Corot, Papety, et Delacroix, inspirateurs de Cézanne." Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français (1974), pp. 194 and 199, as Un homme près d'une femme endormie en plein air, 1868-1871.
Cachin and Rishel 1995
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, ("Les carnets"), p. 518, ill. in b/w p. 519, as Homme auprès d'une femme endormie à la belle étoile, 1868-1871.
Causey 2020b
Causey, Faya. "Marion's Geological Drawings." In Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Exhibition catalogue, p. 151, fig. 95.
Notes

The schematic diagram in graphite is in the hand of Fortuné Marion, a childhood friend of the artist and a geologist (see Causey, 2020).

Record last updated June 11, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Homme auprès d'une femme endormie à la belle étoile, 1868–71 (FWN 3014-08b), p. 8 verso from the CdeJ sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1901 (accessed on April 20, 2024).