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 3007-41b (right)
Etude pour La toilette
1879–82
Alternate titles: Baigneuse; Studies for 'La Toilette'; Two studies for La Toilette
Venturi (1407); Chappuis (467): 1878–81
Graphite on wove paper, p. XLI verso from the BS III sketchbook (fragment)
4 15/16 x 3 11/16 in. (12.6 x 9.4 cm)
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Exhibition History
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 89, ill., p. 93.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 108, pl. 56B.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 207, ill., (left side).
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1407, ill. vol. II, as "Page VI".
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 40, fig. 52 (whole sheet before it was cut).
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. 141, ill.
Longstreet, Stephen. The Drawings of Cézanne. Los Angeles: Borden Publishing Company, only (b, right) ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 467, ill., as Two studies for La Toilette.
Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne's Copies and Variants after Delacroix." Apollo (London) 101, no. 156 (February 1975), fig. 38, p. 126 (whole sheet before it was cut), as Studies for 'La Toilette'.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. "Catalogue des oeuvres de Cézanne conservées au musée Granet d'Aix-en-Provence." In Cézanne au Musée d'Aix. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1984, ill. p. 227, as Baigneuse.
Notes
Inspired by Delacroix's painting Le lever which Cezanne probably knew from a reproduction in L'Artiste from 1851.
Eugène Delacroix, Le lever, 1850, oil on canvas. Maxime Citroen Collection, Paris
Lamy after Eugène Delacroix, Le lever, engraving (L'Artiste: journal de la littérature et des beaux-arts, 1851 (SER5,T6), after p. 96).
Photo: © gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France
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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 October 18, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Etude pour La toilette, 1879–82 (FWN 3007-41b (right)), p. XLI verso from the BS III sketchbook (fragment)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2128 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
