The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
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Martin P. Bühler; © Kunstmuseum Basel - Martin P. Bühler
FWN 3005-52a
D'après l'antique: Apollon lycien
1881–84
Alternate title: After the antique: The Lycian Apollo
Chappuis (584); Venturi (1396)
Graphite on wove paper, p. LII from the BS II sketchbook
4 3/4 x 8 1/4 in. (12.1 x 20.9 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 63, ill., p. 72.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: The Basel Sketchbooks, March 10–June 5, 1988, listed p. 147, ill. p. 80.
Glyptothek, Munich, Skulpturenzeichnungen, July 19–September 18, 1994, no. 5, ill.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 137, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1396, ill. vol. II, as "Page LII".
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 51, cat. no. 43, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle. Olten and Lausanne: Urs Graf, 1962, no. 107, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 584, ill., as After the antique: The Lycian Apollo.
Koepplin, Dieter. Paul Cézanne: Die Basler Zeichnungen. Basel: Kunstmuseum, 1988, no. 46, ill.
C. 130-150 AD, after Euphranor (actif c. 330 BC), Apollon vainqueur du monstre Python, du type dit de l’"Apollon lycien" (The Lycian Apollo), marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Photo: © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre)
Statue before restauration.
Photo: © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre)
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Basel II, 1880–83, after 1900 (3005)
Sketchbook Basel II, 1880–83, after 1900 (3005)
This sketchbook originally contained at least fifty-two sheets, but was disbanded and dispersed in the 1930s. The Kunstmuseum Basel holds the largest group.
The sheets are numbered in Roman numerals at lower right on the "a" side.
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current: D'après l'antique: Apollon lycien, 1881–84 (3005-52a)
Record last updated August 20, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après l'antique: Apollon lycien, 1881–84 (FWN 3005-52a), p. LII from the BS II sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2253 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
