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 2303-TA
D'après Delacroix: filles de Sparte luttant
1880–83
Alternate titles: After Delacroix: Spartan girls wrestling; Spartan Girls wrestling
Chappuis (495)
Graphite on laid paper
11 x 15 3/8 in. (25.5 x 39 cm)
Private collection, Paris
Provenance
Published References
Chappuis, Adrien. "Cézanne dessinateur: copies et ilustrations." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 66, periode 6 (November 1965), fig. 25, 1878–80.
Lichtenstein, Sara. "A Sheet of Cézanne's Copies after Delacroix." Master Drawings, vol. 5, no. 2 (Summer 1967), p. 182, pl. 34, date 1875–85.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 495, ill., as After Delacroix: Spartan girls wrestling.
Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne's Copies and Variants after Delacroix." Apollo (London) 101, no. 156 (February 1975), fig. 28, p. 124, as Spartan Girls wrestling.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 287, no. 94, ill.
Notes
Sara Lichtenstein was the first to suggest that this drawing is based on Delacroix's studies for a pendentive in the library of the Palais Bourbon (Assemblée Nationale, Paris). However it is unclear which of the three existing preparatory studies Cezanne could have known from reproductions.
Cezanne used these studies for the couples at the back and right center in Battle of Love, FWN656, FWN657 and FWN1870.
Eugène Delacroix, Jeunes filles de Sparte s'exerçant à la lutte, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Photo: © RMN
Eugène Delacroix, Etudes de jeunes filles luttant, et personnage fouettant un enfant, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Photo: © RMN
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après Delacroix: filles de Sparte luttant, 1880–83 (FWN 2303-TA)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2161 (accessed on May 2, 2025).
