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Catalogue entry

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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)

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Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Paul Guillaume, Paris
Adrien Chappuis, Tresserve (1934);
Chappuis-Barut Collection, Christie's, London, June 26, 2003, no. 330, leaf 9, ill.
Christie's, London, Feb. 9, 2006, no. 557, ill.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1292, ill. vol. II, as "Page XXXVIII".
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, pp. 25, 48, cat. no. 10, fig. 85.
Chappuis 1973
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 2011
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 2018
Chédeville, François. "Datation des copies de sculptures réalisés par Cezanne (I)." March 22, 2018, as Vénus de Milon, d'après l'antique, 1871–72.
Nagaï 2018
Nagaï, Takanori. "What Copying Meant to Cezanne." Aesthetics, no. 21 (2018), fig. 14.
D'après l'antique: Vénus de Milo, c.1872–73 (FWN 3008-38a). Greek, c. 100 BC, Aphrodite, dite Vénus de Milo (The Venus of Milo), marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Greek, c. 100 BC, Aphrodite, dite Vénus de Milo (The Venus of Milo), marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.

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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 March 28, 2024).