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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)
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)
Keywords
- Figure compositionsBathers and Nudes:
- StudiesAfter paintings and works on paper:
- Technique and Condition:
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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
Lamy after Eugène Delacroix, Le lever, engraving (L'Artiste: journal de la littérature et des beaux-arts, 1851 (SER5,T6), after p. 96).
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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&sketchbook=3007 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
