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Catalogue entry

FWN 2123-TA
D'après Pigalle: Mercure
1873–76
Alternate titles: After Pigalle: Mercury; Le Mercure de Pigalle; Mercure attachant ses talonnières, d'après Pigalle; Mercure de Pigalle; Mercury; Study
Chappuis (305); Venturi (1451): 1879–82
Graphite on paper
16 1/8 x 10 5/8 in. (41 x 27 cm)
Whereabouts unknown

Keywords

Provenance
(Bollag, Zurich, Nov. 28, 1924, no. 44, as "Merkur. Nackter Mann mit Petasus auf einem Sack sitzend. Bleizeichnung 44 x 26")?
Weyhe Gallery, New York
Whereabouts unknown
Exhibition History
1934 Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November–December 1934, no. 57, as Mercury, lent by Weyhe Gallery, NY.
1937 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 64, ill., as Study, 1879-82 (erroneously listed as Venturi no. 1321 and with incorrect measurements), lent by Weyhe Gallery.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1451, ill. vol. II.
Jewell 1944a
Jewell, Edward Alden. Paul Cézanne. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944, ill.
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 36, cat. no. 157, ill.
Chappuis 1973
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 305, ill., as After Pigalle: Mercury.
Venturi 1978
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 130, no. 01, ill., as Mercure de Pigalle, 1873-76.
Verdi 1992
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 164, fig. 141.
Chédeville 2018
Chédeville, François. "Datation des copies de sculptures réalisés par Cezanne (I)." March 22, 2018, as Mercure attachant ses talonnières, d'après Pigalle.
Notes

After a plaster cast of the original in the Louvre which Cezanne saw in the Musée de Sculpture comparée, Palais de Chaillot, Trocadero.

D'après Pigalle: Mercure, 1873–76 (FWN 2123-TA). Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, Mercure attachant ses talonnières, marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, Mercure attachant ses talonnières, marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Photo: Pierre Philibert; © Musée du Louvre

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Record last updated November 23, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après Pigalle: Mercure, 1873–76 (FWN 2123-TA)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1961 (accessed on April 25, 2024).