Catalogue entry

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)

Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett

whole sheet before it was separated

Photo: Courtesy François Chédeville

Keywords

Figure compositions
Bathers and Nudes:
- female nude(s) / femme nue(s) »
Studies
After paintings and works on paper:
- Delacroix »
Technique and Condition:
- fragment »

Provenance

Paul Cézanne fils, Paris

Paul Guillaume, Paris

Werner Feuz, Bern

Kunstmuseum Basel

Exhibition History

1979 Rome

Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 89, ill., p. 93.

1989 Basel

Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 108, pl. 56B.

2017 Basel

Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 207, ill., (left side).

Published References

Venturi 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1407, ill. vol. II, as "Page VI".

Berthold 1958

Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 40, fig. 52 (whole sheet before it was cut).

Chappuis 1962

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 1964

Longstreet, Stephen. The Drawings of Cézanne. Los Angeles: Borden Publishing Company, only (b, right) ill.

Chappuis 1973

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 1975

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 et al. 1984a

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

Etude pour La toilette, 1879–82 (FWN 3007-41b (right)). Lamy after Eugène Delacroix, Le lever, engraving (L'Artiste: journal de la littérature et des beaux-arts, 1851 (SER5,T6), after p. 96).

Lamy after Eugène Delacroix, Le lever, engraving (L'Artiste: journal de la littérature et des beaux-arts, 1851 (SER5,T6), after p. 96).

Related work

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 April 24, 2024).