Catalogue entry

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)

Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett

Keywords

Figure compositions
Bathers and Nudes:
- female nude(s) / femme nue(s) »

Provenance

Paul Cézanne fils, Paris

Werner Feuz, Bern

Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett (1934)

Exhibition History

1979 Rome

Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 41, ill., p. 50.

1988d New York

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: The Basel Sketchbooks, March 10–June 5, 1988, listed p. 146, ill. p. 56.

2017 Basel

Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 60, ill.

Published References

Vollard 1914

Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, p. 70, ill.

Venturi 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1183, ill. vol. II.

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. 73, ill.

Longstreet 1964

Longstreet, Stephen. The Drawings of Cézanne. Los Angeles: Borden Publishing Company, ill.

Chappuis 1973

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 2004

Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 132, fig. 77.

Related work

Record last updated June 21, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

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 10, 2024).