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Catalogue entry

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
Philadelphia Museum of Art (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Annenberg)

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  • Figure compositions
    Historical and Allegorical:
  • Figure compositions
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Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Maurice Renou, Paris
Jean Poyet, Lyon
Maurice Renou, Paris
Sam Salz, New York
Enid Haupt, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Annenberg, Palm Springs;
Philadelphia Museum of Art (1987)
Exhibition History
2021a New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Published References
Rewald 1951
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 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 39, cat. no. 273, fig. 50.
Chappuis 1973
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 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 303, no. 215, ill. c. 1880.
Neufeld 2021
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.

D'après Alonso Cano: Le Christ mort, After 1882 (FWN 3002-45b). 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.
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].
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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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 May 1, 2025).