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)
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FWN 3008-50b
Baigneurs, étude de jambe et caryatide
c.1883–86
Alternate title: Bathers, caryatid
Venturi (1299-02); Chappuis (631): 1883–86
Graphite on wove paper, p. L verso from the CP II sketchbook
4 15/16 x 8 1/2 in. (12.5 x 21.6 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Quatre Chemins, Paris, Dessins et aquarelles de Cezanne, June 26–July 11, 1936, n.n.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 95, Ursula and R. Stanley Johnson Family Collection.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1299-02, as "Page L v."
Raynal, Maurice. "Dessins de Cézanne." Arts et Métiers graphiques, no. 54 (August 15, 1936), p. 52, ill. Coll. Chappuis.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Bather with Outstretched Arms." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 59, periode 6 (March 1962), p. 179-180, fig. 8 p. 181.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 631, ill., as Bathers, caryatid.
Notes
The landscape behind the bather at right has been identified as near L'Estaque and the Château d'If.
Very lightly drawn above the study of a leg is the head of one of the caryatids in Raimondi's engraving La Cassolette.
Marcantonio Raimondi, La Cassolette, engraving after Raphael, V&A's collections, London.
Photo: © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Related work
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Chappuis II (CP II), 1871–98 (3008)
Sketchbook Chappuis II (CP II), 1871–98 (3008)
The sketchbook originally contained 50 sheets; the pages are numbered on the "a" side at lower right in Roman numerals.
At the time of Chappuis' purchase from Paul Guillaume, the sketchbook was incomplete and a number of pages already dispersed and are still missing.
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Record last updated August 26, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Baigneurs, étude de jambe et caryatide, c.1883–86 (FWN 3008-50b), p. L verso from the CP II sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2302 (accessed on April 26, 2024).
