The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
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FWN 3008-36b
Etude pour Léda et le cygne et étude de tête
Léda, 1877–82; head, 1880–82
Alternate titles: Etude pour Léda et le cygne; Léda avec le cygne; Leda et le Cygne; Skizzenblatt mit Studie für: Leda und der Schwan; Studies for Leda and the Swan
Chappuis (484); Venturi (1290-11)
Graphite on wove paper, p. XXXVI verso from the CP II sketchbook
4 7/8 x 8 9/16 in. (12.4 x 21.8 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 99, ill., as Leda et le Cygne, 1877-82, lent by M. and Mme A. Chappuis, Tresserve. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 132, ill. p. 228, as Skizzenblatt mit Studie für: Leda und der Schwan, 1878-1882, lent by Private collection, France.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1290-11, as "Page XXXVI v."
Chappuis, Adrien. Dessins de Paul Cézanne. Paris: Editions des chroniques du jour, 1938, no. 9, ill., as Léda avec le cygne.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, cat. no. 300, ill.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 165, ill. dated c. 1884–86.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 484, ill., as Studies for Leda and the Swan.
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. "Une source oubliée de Cézanne." Les Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne, no. 86 (Winter 2003–04), p. 86, ill. fig. 7 p. 85, as Etude pour Léda et le cygne.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 36, fig. 20.
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. Études cézanniennes. Paris: Flammarion, 2006, p. 49, fig. 17.
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 600, no. 1433, ill. in color, as Etude pour Léda et le cygne, 1880-1882.
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. 5.
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Chappuis II (CP II), 1871–98 (3008)
Sketchbook Chappuis II (CP II), 1871–98 (3008)
The sketchbook originally contained 50 sheets; the pages are numbered on the "a" side at lower right in Roman numerals.
At the time of Chappuis' purchase from Paul Guillaume, the sketchbook was incomplete and a number of pages already dispersed and are still missing.
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current: Etude pour Léda et le cygne et étude de tête, Léda, 1877–82; head, 1880–82 (3008-36b)
Record last updated September 14, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Etude pour Léda et le cygne et étude de tête, Léda, 1877–82; head, 1880–82 (FWN 3008-36b), p. XXXVI verso from the CP II sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2149 (accessed on April 24, 2024).
