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 3002-06a
Etude pour Léda
c.1882
Alternate titles: Etude ne nu féminin; Femme nue couchée; Reclining Female Nude; Study for Leda
Chappuis (483): 1876–79
Graphite on wove paper, p. 6 from the EH I sketchbook
4 9/16 x 7 3/16 in. (11.6 x 18.3 cm)
Provenance
Published References
Rewald, John. Cézanne: Carnets de Dessins, 2 vols. Paris: Quatre Chemins-Editart, 1951, C I, p. 6, pl. 83, Asa study for Leda.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, cat. no. 301, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 483, ill., as Study for Leda.
Ballas, Guila. "Paul Cézanne et la revue 'L'Artiste.'" Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 98, periode 6 (December 1981), pp. 225 and 231, fig. 15 p. 229, as Etude ne nu féminin, 1876-1879.
Shoemaker, Innis, and Theodore Reff. Paul Cézanne: Two Sketchbooks. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, p. 41 (Sketchbook I; page 6 recto), ill., as Reclining Female Nude.
Wattenmaker, Richard et al. Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, p. 108, fig. 3.
Harvey, Benjamin. "Cézanne and Zola: A Reassessment of 'L'Eternel féminin.'" Burlington, vol. 140, no. 1142 (May 1998), p. 317, fig. 24.
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. "Une source oubliée de Cézanne." Les Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne, no. 86 (Winter 2003–04), pp. 84-85, ill. fig. 6 p. 85, as Femme nue couchée.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 37, fig. 21.
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. Études cézanniennes. Paris: Flammarion, 2006, p. 49, fig. 16.
Mitterand, Henri. Paul Cézanne, Émile Zola, Lettres croisées, 1858–1887. Paris: Gallimard, 2016, fig. 18.
Eiling, Alexander, Anett Göthe, Astrid Reuter, Bettina Kaufmann, Eva-Maria Höllerer, Juliane Betz and Julia Lachenmann. "Catalog." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 242 fig. 4.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 118, fig. 3, as Reclining Female Nude.
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Philadelphia I (EH 1), 1882–90 (3002)
Sketchbook Philadelphia I (EH 1), 1882–90 (3002)
Notation on back endpaper "47 x 2", indicating the number of 47 recto and verso sheets. Some of these sheets have been removed.
The page numbers are written in Arabic numerals at the lower right corner of most of the recto pages in a soft bluish-gray pencil.
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current: Etude pour Léda, c.1882 (3002-06a)
Record last updated April 27, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Etude pour Léda, c.1882 (FWN 3002-06a), p. 6 from the EH I sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2148 (accessed on October 7, 2024).
