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Catalogue entry

FWN 2131
Figure d'ornement d'une pendule
1877–80
Alternate title: Figure ornamenting a clock
Chappuis (579)
Graphite and watercolor on laid paper (fragment)
6 1/8 x 4 5/8 in. (15.5 x 11.8 cm)
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA (Bequest of Richard B. Sisson and through the generosity of Anthony and Celeste Meier)

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
New Gallery [E.V. Thaw], New York
Richard P. Sisson, New York;
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA (2005)
Published References
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, cat. no. 327, ill.
Reff 1960c
Reff, Theodore. "Book Reviews: Cézanne und die alten Meister by Gertrude Berthold." The Art Bulletin, vol. 42, no. 2 (June 1960), p. 148, Appendix, cat. 327, proposes a Louis XVI clock, probably by Gille l'Ainée as the model.
Chappuis 1973
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 579, ill., as Figure ornamenting a clock.

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Record last updated August 5, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Figure d'ornement d'une pendule, 1877–80 (FWN 2131), (fragment)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2248 (accessed on May 2, 2025).