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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
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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
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Paul Guillaume, Paris
Adrien Chappuis, Tresserve;
Chappuis-Barut Collection, Christie's, London, June 6, 2003, no. 302, ill.
Exhibition History
1974 Tokyo and traveling
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, 1974.1978 Tübingen
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1290-11, as "Page XXXVI v."Chappuis 1938
Chappuis, Adrien. Dessins de Paul Cézanne. Paris: Editions des chroniques du jour, 1938, no. 9, ill., as Léda avec le cygne.Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, cat. no. 300, ill.Andersen 1970
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 165, ill. dated c. 1884–86.Chappuis 1973
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 2003–04
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 2004
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 36, fig. 20.Lebensztejn 2006
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. Études cézanniennes. Paris: Flammarion, 2006, p. 49, fig. 17.Prat 2011
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 et al. 2017
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.
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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&sketchbook=3008 (accessed on May 4, 2024).
