The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
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FWN 3008-38a
D'après l'antique: Vénus de Milo
c.1872–73
Alternate titles: After the antique: Venus of Milo; Etude de la Vénus de Milo de face; Vénus de Milon, d'après l'antique
Chappuis (307); Venturi (1292)
Graphite on wove paper, p. XXXVIII from the CP II sketchbook
4 7/8 x 8 7/16 in. (12.4 x 21.5 cm)
Provenance
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1292, ill. vol. II, as "Page XXXVIII".
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, pp. 25, 48, cat. no. 10, fig. 85.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 307, ill., as After the antique: Venus of Milo.
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 592, no. 1413, ill. in b/w, as Etude de la Vénus de Milo de face, 1872-1873.
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 II (CP II), 1871–98 (3008)
Sketchbook Chappuis II (CP II), 1871–98 (3008)
The sketchbook originally contained 50 sheets; the pages are numbered on the "a" side at lower right in Roman numerals.
At the time of Chappuis' purchase from Paul Guillaume, the sketchbook was incomplete and a number of pages already dispersed and are still missing.
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current: D'après l'antique: Vénus de Milo, c.1872–73 (3008-38a)
Record last updated June 4, 2019. 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, c.1872–73 (FWN 3008-38a), p. XXXVIII from the CP II sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1963 (accessed on February 8, 2025).
