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Catalogue entry

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)
Whereabouts unknown

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Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Paul Guillaume, Paris
Adrien Chappuis, Tresserve (1934)
Whereabouts unknown
Exhibition History
1973 Newcastle upon Tyne and traveling
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.
1978 Tübingen
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1278, ill. vol. II, erroneously described as "Page XLVII v."
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, cat. no. 63, ill.
Chappuis 1973
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 1992
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 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 304, no. 221, ill. 1879-82.
D'après Michel-Ange: l'Esclave mourant, 1879–82 (FWN 3003-49b-TA). Michelangelo, Captif (
Michelangelo, Captif ("l'Esclave mourant") (Dying Slave), marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
D'après Michel-Ange: l'Esclave mourant, 1879–82 (FWN 3003-49b-TA). Michelangelo, Captif (
Michelangelo, Captif ("l'Esclave mourant") (Dying Slave), marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Photo: Raphaël Chipault; © 2010 Musée du Louvre

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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 April 20, 2024).