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 2007
Femme nue pour L'Après-midi à Naples
1872–75
Alternate title: Female nude for Afternoon in Naples
Chappuis (283); Venturi (1183): 1870–75
Graphite on paper
part of watermark: INES (first letters cut off by edge)
3 1/2 x 5 5/8 in. (8.9 x 14.2 cm)
Exhibition History
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 41, ill., p. 50.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: The Basel Sketchbooks, March 10–June 5, 1988, listed p. 146, ill. p. 56.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 60, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1183, ill. vol. II.
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. 73, ill.
Longstreet, Stephen. The Drawings of Cézanne. Los Angeles: Borden Publishing Company, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 283, ill., as Female nude for Afternoon in Naples.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 132, fig. 77.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Femme nue pour L'Après-midi à Naples, 1872–75 (FWN 2007)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1939 (accessed on May 3, 2025).
