Catalogue entry

FWN 2156

D'après Puget: Atlas

1886–89

Alternate titles: After Pierre Puget, Older Atlas; After Pierre Puget: Atlas; Atlante, d'après Puget; Atlas de Puget; Studie nach Puget: Atlant; Une des deux Cariatides de Puget à Hôtel de Ville de Toulon

Chappuis (391): 1874–1877

Graphite on laid paper

11 7/16 x 9 1/4 in. (29 x 23.5 cm)

Private collection

Keywords

Studies
After sculpture:
- Puget »

Provenance

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May, 21, 1951, no. 6

G.H. Schick, Paris

Heidi Vollmoeller, Zurich;

Private collection

Julian Barran, London

Galerie Hopkins Custot, Paris (2005)

Zeineb and Jean-Pierre Marcie-Rivière, (2005);

Marcie-Rivière Collection Christie's, Paris, June 8, 2016, no. 4, ill.

Private collection

Exhibition History

1956 The Hague

Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 98, ill. lent by Heidi Vollmoeller, Zurich.

1956 Zurich

Kunsthaus, Zurich, Paul Cézanne, August 22–October 7, 1956, no. 150, ill., pl. 68.

1956 Munich

Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 116, ill. c. 1870/75, lent by H. Vollmoeller, Zurich.

1978 Tübingen

Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 160, ill. p. 260, as Studie nach Puget: Atlant, 1874-1877, lent by Heidi Vollmoeller, Zürich.

Published References

Rewald 1948b

Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, p. 152, ill. dated 1880–85.

Berthold 1958

Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, cat. no. 129, ill.

Rewald 1959b

Rewald, John. Cézanne. London: Spring Books, 1959, p. 87, ill.

Chappuis 1973

Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 391, ill., as After Pierre Puget: Atlas.

Venturi 1978

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 130, no. 02, ill. p. 131, as Atlas de Puget, 1874-77.

Herding 2012

Herding, Klaus. "A Dramatic Interplay in Form and Expression: Cézanne and Puget." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 91, fig. 50, as After Pierre Puget, Older Atlas.

Chédeville 2018

Chédeville, François. "Datation des copies de sculptures réalisés par Cezanne (I)." March 22, 2018, as Atlante, d'après Puget, 1874-77.

D'après Puget: Atlas, 1886–89 (FWN 2156). Pierre Puget, Atlas, one of two monumental figures flanking the door of the Hôtel de Ville at Toulon, France. Cezanne copied from a plaster cast exhibited in the Puget Room of the Louvre until 1886, then moved to the Musée de Sculpture comparée, Palais de Chaillot, Trocadero.

Pierre Puget, Atlas, one of two monumental figures flanking the door of the Hôtel de Ville at Toulon, France. Cezanne copied from a plaster cast exhibited in the Puget Room of the Louvre until 1886, then moved to the Musée de Sculpture comparée, Palais de Chaillot, Trocadero.

Pierre Puget, Atlas, (detail).

Postcard, Hôtel de Ville, Toulon.

Related work

Record last updated February 26, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après Puget: Atlas, 1886–89 (FWN 2156)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2049 (accessed on May 1, 2025).