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 3003-41b
D'après l'antique: Vénus de Milo
1872–75
Alternate titles: After the antique : Venus of Milo; After the antique: the Venus de Milo; Vénus de Milon, d'après l'antique
Chappuis (306)
Graphite on wove paper, p. XLI verso from the CP I sketchbook
4 3/4 x 7 11/16 in. (12 x 19.5 cm)
Exhibition History
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September 19–November 4, 1973, no. 30 verso, ill. in b/w, catalogue note: p. 156, as After the antique: the Venus de Milo, lent by Private collection. Traveled to: Hayward Gallery, London, November 13–December 30, 1973.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Jasper Johns – The Artist as Collector, From Cezanne to de Kooning, September 30, 2023–February 4, 2024, no. 13b.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, vol. I, as verso of no. 1256.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, cat. no. 17, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 306, ill., as After the antique : Venus of Milo.
Chédeville, François. "Datation des copies de sculptures réalisés par Cezanne (I)." March 22, 2018, as Vénus de Milon, d'après l'antique, 1871–72.
Greek, c. 100 BC, Aphrodite, dite Vénus de Milo (The Venus of Milo), marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Related work
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Chappuis I (CP I), 1871–92 (3003)
Sketchbook Chappuis I (CP I), 1871–92 (3003)
Notation on the back endpaper "LIV x 2" indicating the original number of recto and verso sheets of the sketchbook, which has since been disbanded and dispersed.
The page numbers are written in Roman numerals at the lower right corner of the recto pages.
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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: Vénus de Milo, 1872–75 (FWN 3003-41b), p. XLI verso from the CP I sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1962 (accessed on April 26, 2024).
