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 3002-05a
D'après l'antique: Silène portant Dionysos
After 1882
Alternate titles: After an antique sculpture: Faun and Child; Silène portant le jeune Dionysos, dit Faune à l'enfant, d'après l'antique
Chappuis (304): 1872–75
Graphite on wove paper, possibly p. 5 removed from the EH I sketchbook
4 5/8 x 7 5/8 in. (11.7 x 19.4 cm)
Provenance
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, vol. I, p. 349, listed (Collection Clark).
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, cat. no. 345.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 304, ill., as After an antique sculpture: Faun and Child.
Shoemaker, Innis, and Theodore Reff. Paul Cézanne: Two Sketchbooks. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, p. 21, fig. 6.
Chédeville, François. "Datation des copies de sculptures réalisés par Cezanne (I)." March 22, 2018, as Silène portant le jeune Dionysos, dit Faune à l'enfant, d'après l'antique, 1874–75.
Roman copy, 1st or 2nd century AD, after a Greek original in bronze, c. 300 BC, Silène portant Dionysos enfant (Bacchus), fils de Zeus, marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Philadelphia I (EH 1), 1882–90 (3002)
Sketchbook Philadelphia I (EH 1), 1882–90 (3002)
Notation on back endpaper "47 x 2", indicating the number of 47 recto and verso sheets. Some of these sheets have been removed.
The page numbers are written in Arabic numerals at the lower right corner of most of the recto pages in a soft bluish-gray pencil.
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Record last updated March 14, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après l'antique: Silène portant Dionysos, After 1882 (FWN 3002-05a), possibly p. 5 removed from the EH I sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1960 (accessed on July 15, 2025).
