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 3010-07b
Esquisse de nu et d'après Puget: tête de Diogène
1872–77
Alternate titles: Alexandre et Diogène, d'après Puget; Baigneuse marchant vers la gauche et tête de Diogène d'après Puget; Female Bather; Head of Diogenes, after Puget; Sketch of a nude, and head of an old man
Chappuis (313)
Graphite, traces of oil paint on wove paper, p. VII verso from the EH II sketchbook
5 x 8 1/2 in. (12.7 x 21.6 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Au fil de l'eau: Cézanne, June 17–September 15, 2000, no. 43, ill. p. 60, as Baigneuse marchant vers la gauche et tête de Diogène d'après Puget, lent by Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Published References
Rewald, John. Cézanne: Carnets de Dessins, 2 vols. Paris: Quatre Chemins-Editart, 1951, C IV, p. VII verso.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, cat. no. 298, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 313, ill., as Sketch of a nude, and head of an old man.
Shoemaker, Innis, and Theodore Reff. Paul Cézanne: Two Sketchbooks. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, p. 146 (Sketchbook II; page VII verso), ill., as Female Bather; Head of Diogenes, after Puget.
Chédeville, François. "Datation des copies de sculptures réalisés par Cezanne (I)." March 22, 2018, as Alexandre et Diogène, d'après Puget, 1876–77.
Notes
The female bather is related to FWN957–59 and appears in this sketchbook, pp. XII recto and X verso.
"The small head of a bearded man is a copy after that of Diogenes in Pierre Puget's monumental relief The Meeting of Alexander and Diogenes (Louvre, no. 1468)," identified by Shoemaker and Reff.
Pierre Puget, Alexandre et Diogène (The Meeting of Alexander and Diogenes), monumental relief, marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Philadelphia II, 1872–95 (3010)
Sketchbook Philadelphia II, 1872–95 (3010)
The front and back covers are of linen-covered board. Notation on back endpaper "LII x 2", indicating 52 recto and verso sheets. The pages are numbered in Roman numerals at the lower right corner of the recto ("a") in a soft blue-gray pencil. The sketchbook is unbound.
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Record last updated July 27, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Esquisse de nu et d'après Puget: tête de Diogène, 1872–77 (FWN 3010-07b), p. VII verso from the EH II sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1971 (accessed on January 15, 2025).
