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Catalogue entry

FWN 2269
D'après Rubens: trois naïades
1876–79
Alternate titles: After Rubens: three Naiads; Copie d'après Rubens; D'après Rubens; Studie nach Rubens: Drei Najaden; Trois Naïades d'après Le Débarquement de Marie de Médicis de Rubens; Trois naïades, d'après Rubens
Chappuis (455); Venturi (1625): 1879–82
Graphite on paper
12 3/16 x 17 3/4 in. (31 x 45 cm)
Private collection

Keywords

Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Maurice Renou, Paris
Marianne Feilchenfeldt, Zurich (1954);
Private collection
Exhibition History
1935b Paris
Galerie Renou et Colle, Paris, Aquarelles et baignades de Cézanne, June 3–17, 1935.
1936c Paris
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 164, as Copie d'après Rubens, c. 1895-97, lent by Paul Cézanne fils, Paris (erroneously listed in Chappuis 1973 as no. 154 in this exhibition).
1952e Paris
Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cent-cinquante ans de dessin: 1800-1950, December 20, 1952, no. 19, as D'après Rubens.
1971 Washington, D.C. and traveling
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 67, ill. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
1978 Tübingen
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 162, ill. p. 262, as Studie nach Rubens: Drei Najaden, 1877-1880, lent by Private collection.
1993b Paris
Musée du Louvre, Paris, Copier Créer: de Turner à Picasso: 300 œuvres inspirées par les maîtres du Louvre, April 26–July 26, 1993, no. 51, ill., as Trois Naïades d'après Le Débarquement de Marie de Médicis de Rubens, lent by Mme M. Feilchenfeldt, Zurich.
2017–18 Karlsruhe
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 32, ill.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1625, ill. vol. II, as D'après Rubens.
Hofmann 1953
Hofmann, Werner. Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). Munich, Vienna, Basel: Kurt Desch, 1953, pl. 6, c. 1882.
Rousseau 1953
Rousseau, Théodore, Jr. Paul Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1953, pl. 6.
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, pp. 16, 50, 51, cat. no. 214, fig. 103.
Neumeyer 1958
Neumeyer, Alfred. Cézanne's Drawings. New York and London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1958, no. 10, ill.
Murphy 1968
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, no. 67, ill.
Chappuis 1973
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 455, ill., as After Rubens: three Naiads.
Kendall 1988
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 122, ill.
Verdi 1992
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 169, fig. 147.
Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 290, no. 105, ill.
Schmidt 2004a
Schmidt, Bertram. Cézannes Lehre. Kiel: Ludwig, 2004, fig. 2.
Prat 2011
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 596, no. 1421, ill. in color, as Trois naïades, d'après Rubens, 1876-1879.
Eiling 2017
Eiling, Alexander. "Cézanne's Metamorphoses." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 6.
Notes

According to Gasquet (1926, p. 74), Cezanne owned a photograph of this group of naiads.

D'après Rubens: trois naïades, 1876–79 (FWN 2269). Peter Paul Rubens, Le Débarquement de la reine à Marseille (The Disembarkation at Marseilles) from the Medici cycle, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Peter Paul Rubens, Le Débarquement de la reine à Marseille (The Disembarkation at Marseilles) from the Medici cycle, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Photo: A. Dequier - M. Bard; © Musée du Louvre

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Record last updated September 9, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après Rubens: trois naïades, 1876–79 (FWN 2269)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2115 (accessed on April 24, 2024).