Catalogue entry

FWN 3008-47a

D'après l'antique: Vénus de Milo

c.1872–73

Alternate titles: After the antique: Venus of Milo; Vénus de Milon, d'après l'antique

Chappuis (308); Venturi (1296)

Graphite on wove paper, p. XLVII from the CP II sketchbook

4 7/8 x 8 7/16 in. (12.4 x 21.5 cm)

Musée d'Art classique, Mougins

Keywords

Figure compositions
Historical and Allegorical:
- Vénus »
Studies
After sculpture:
- after the Antique »

Provenance

Paul Cézanne fils, Paris

Paul Guillaume, Paris

Adrien Chappuis, Tresserve (1934);

Chappuis-Barut Collection, Christie's, London, June 26, 2003, no. 330, leaf 13, ill.

Christie's, London, Feb. 9, 2006, no. 550, ill.

Christie's, London, Feb. 10, 2011, no. 262, ill.

Musée d'Art classique, Mougins

Exhibition History

2017 Martigny

Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 11, ill. lent by Musée d'art classique, Mougins.

Published References

Pfister 1927

Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 8 p. 31.

Venturi 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1296, ill. vol. II, as "Page XLVII".

Berthold 1958

Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, pp. 48, 49, cat. no. 12, ill.

Chappuis 1973

Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 308, ill.

Simms 2017b

Simms, Matthew. "Cézanne, Drawing, and the Past." In Cézanne and the past : tradition and creativity [international symposium, Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, 28 January 2013]. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2017, fig. 2.

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.

Greek, c. 100 BC, Aphrodite, dite Vénus de Milo (The Venus of Milo), marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Related work

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 3008-47a), p. XLVII 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=1964 (accessed on April 26, 2024).