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 3002-45b
D'après Alonso Cano: Le Christ mort
After 1882
Alternate title: After Alonso Cano: The Dead Christ
Chappuis (524): 1877–80
Graphite on wove paper, p. 45 verso from the EH I sketchbook (fragment)
4 9/16 x 4 7/8 in. (11.6 x 12.4 cm)
Notation in the artist's hand: Soccio 7, rue / Maître-Albert
Provenance
Exhibition History
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Published References
Rewald, John. Cézanne: Carnets de Dessins, 2 vols. Paris: Quatre Chemins-Editart, 1951, C I, p. 45 verso, in error as after a Christ in Limbo.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 39, cat. no. 273, fig. 50.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 524, ill., as After Alonso Cano: The Dead Christ.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 303, no. 215, ill. c. 1880.
Neufeld, Laura. "Belle Formule: Materials and Methods in Cézanne's Watercolors." In Cézanne Drawing. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, p. 202, fig. 2.
Notes
Berthold (1958) observed that the attitude of the dead Christ in Alonso Cano's engraving was the inspiration for Cezanne's bathers descending into the water.
Alonso Cano, Cristo muerto sostenido por un ángel (The Dead Christ Supported by an Angel), Museo del Prado, Madrid. Cezanne probably knew this work from a wood-engraved reproduction in Charles Blanc's 1869 Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles: Ecole espagnole.
![D'après Alonso Cano: Le Christ mort, After 1882 (FWN 3002-45b). After Alonso Cano, Le Christ mort, wood engraving printed in Charles Blanc, Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles: Ecole espagnole, Paris: Veuve J. Renouard, 1869, p. [171].](https://cdn.panopticoncr.com/ceza001/catalogue_images/supp_sm/Ch524_suppl.png)
After Alonso Cano, Le Christ mort, wood engraving printed in Charles Blanc, Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles: Ecole espagnole, Paris: Veuve J. Renouard, 1869, p. [171].
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Additional material / links
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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Record last updated August 12, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après Alonso Cano: Le Christ mort, After 1882 (FWN 3002-45b), p. 45 verso from the EH I sketchbook (fragment)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2190 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
