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 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)
Exhibition History
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, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, listed p. 155 (listed as p. 10 verso).
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, 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, 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, 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).
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Paris I, 1857–1871 (3014)
Sketchbook Paris I, 1857–1871 (3014)
Both the front and back endpapers are of papier moiré. At one time the entire sketchbook was dismantled and reattached and possibly restored in 1960s or 1970s. The sheets were renumbered at lower right by the Louvre in the 1990s(?) in Arabic numerals, the pagination we are using here. Pages 30-39 are the only extant original 8-page quire.
Browse complete sketchbook
current: Homme auprès d'une femme endormie à la belle étoile, 1868–71 (3014-08b)
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&sketchbook=3014 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
