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Catalogue entry

FWN 3015-49b
D'après l'antique: orateur romain (Statue de Marcellus)
1883–86
Alternate titles: After the antique: The Roman Orator; Copy after Octavian, the 'Roman Orator'
Chappuis (599); Venturi (1313-02)
Graphite on wove paper, p. XLIX verso from the CP III sketchbook
6 x 9 5/16 in. (15.2 x 23.7 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art)

Keywords

Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Paul Guillaume, Paris
Adrien Chappuis, Tresserve
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Va.;
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1313-02, as "Page XLIX v."
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, cat. no. 30.
Reff 1960c
Reff, Theodore. "Book Reviews: Cézanne und die alten Meister by Gertrude Berthold." The Art Bulletin, vol. 42, no. 2 (June 1960), p. 147, Appendix, cat. 30, fig. 1, as Copy after Octavian, the 'Roman Orator'.
Chappuis 1966
Chappuis, Adrien. Album de Paul Cézanne. Paris: Berggruen, 1966, vol. 1, p. 80, ill. vol. 2, c. 1882.
Chappuis 1973
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 599, ill., as After the antique: The Roman Orator.
Causey 2017
Causey, Faya. "Cézanne and Antiquity." In Cézanne and the past : tradition and creativity [international symposium, Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, 28 January 2013]. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2017, fig. 3.
D'après l'antique: orateur romain (Statue de Marcellus), 1883–86 (FWN 3015-49b). Roman, c. 20 BC, Statue funéraire et honorifique de Marcellus formerly known as Germanicus, marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Roman, c. 20 BC, Statue funéraire et honorifique de Marcellus formerly known as Germanicus, marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Photo: Hervé Lewandowski; © 1996 RMN

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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: orateur romain (Statue de Marcellus), 1883–86 (FWN 3015-49b), p. XLIX verso from the CP III sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2268 (accessed on April 19, 2024).