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 3007-53b
Cuvette, entonnoir et annotations
1878–81
Alternate title: Washbowl, funnel, handwritten notations
Chappuis (345); Venturi (1398); Other: 1881–84
Graphite on wove paper, p. LIII verso the BS III sketchbook
4 15/16 x 8 in. (12.6 x 20.4 cm)
Notations in the artist's hand: 2 blanc d'argent / 4 terre verte / 1 petit Prusse / 5 petit chrome / 1 ombre naturelle / jaune brillant / 1 ocre jaune / 3 blanc / 2 outremer / 2 terre verte / 1 vert véronese / rue de la Monnaie
Provenance
Exhibition History
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 61a, ill., p. 70.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 214, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1398, ill. vol. II, in error as "on the inside of the cover [of the carnet]".
Chappuis, Adrien. Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle. Olten and Lausanne: Urs Graf, 1962, no. 103, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 345, ill., as Washbowl, funnel, handwritten notations.
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Basel III, 1878–1881 and 1897–1900 (3007)
Sketchbook Basel III, 1878–1881 and 1897–1900 (3007)
This sketchbook probably contained fifty-three or fifty-four sheets. The pages are numbered on the "a" side in Roman numerals at bottom right. Some sheets were sold separately in the 1930s and have been identified based on stains from an oil-binding agent or rust spots left when the sketchbook was 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. "Cuvette, entonnoir et annotations, 1878–81 (FWN 3007-53b), p. LIII verso the BS III sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2003&sketchbook=3007 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
