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 3003-49b-TA
D'après Michel-Ange: l'Esclave mourant
1879–82
Alternate titles: After Michelangelo: Slave; After Michelangelo: The Dying Slave; Dying Slave; Studie nach Michelangelo: Sterbender Sklave
Chappuis (473); Venturi (1278)
Graphite on wove paper, p. XLIX verso from the CP I sketchbook
4 5/8 x 7 5/8 in. (11.8 x 19.4 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September 19–November 4, 1973, no. 39, ill. in b/w, catalogue note: p. 158, as After Michelangelo: The Dying Slave, lent by A. Chappuis, Tresserve. Traveled to: Hayward Gallery, London, November 13–December 30, 1973.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 159, ill. p. 259, as Studie nach Michelangelo: Sterbender Sklave, 1879-1882, lent by Private collection, Basel.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1278, ill. vol. II, erroneously described as "Page XLVII v."
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, cat. no. 63, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 473, ill., as After Michelangelo: Slave.
Thomson, Richard. "The creative copy in late nineteenth-century French art." In Drawings: Masters and Methods: Raphael to Redon
Papers presented to the Ian Woodner Master Drawings Symposium at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, ed. by Diana Dethloff. London: Philip Wilson Publishers in association with The Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1992, p. 35, fig. 35, as Dying Slave.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 304, no. 221, ill. 1879-82.
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Chappuis I (CP I), 1871–92 (3003)
Sketchbook Chappuis I (CP I), 1871–92 (3003)
Notation on the back endpaper "LIV x 2" indicating the original number of recto and verso sheets of the sketchbook, which has since been disbanded and dispersed.
The page numbers are written in Roman numerals at the lower right corner of the recto pages.
Record last updated August 5, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après Michel-Ange: l'Esclave mourant, 1879–82 (FWN 3003-49b-TA), p. XLIX verso from the CP I sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2135 (accessed on November 3, 2024).