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Catalogue entry

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

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Provenance
Mouradian & Vallotton, Paris
Private collection, Paris
Jean Cailac, Paris
Private collection, Paris
Published References
Chappuis 1965
Chappuis, Adrien. "Cézanne dessinateur: copies et ilustrations." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 66, periode 6 (November 1965), fig. 25, 1878–80.
Lichtenstein 1967
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 1973
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 1975
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 2002
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.

D'après Delacroix: filles de Sparte luttant, 1880–83 (FWN 2303-TA). Eugène Delacroix, Jeunes filles de Sparte s'exerçant à la lutte, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Eugène Delacroix, Jeunes filles de Sparte s'exerçant à la lutte, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Photo: © RMN
D'après Delacroix: filles de Sparte luttant, 1880–83 (FWN 2303-TA). Eugène Delacroix, Etudes de jeunes filles luttant, et personnage fouettant un enfant, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Eugène Delacroix, Etudes de jeunes filles luttant, et personnage fouettant un enfant, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Photo: © RMN

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Record last updated August 10, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
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 April 25, 2024).