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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)
Christie's, London

Keywords

Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Paul Guillaume, Paris
Adrien Chappuis, Tresserve (1934);
Chappuis-Barut Collection, Christie's, London, June 26, 2003, no. 323, ill.
Exhibition History
1936g Paris
Galerie Quatre Chemins, Paris, Dessins et aquarelles de Cezanne, June 26–July 11, 1936, n.n.
2021a New York
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1299-02, as "Page L v."
Raynal 1936b
Raynal, Maurice. "Dessins de Cézanne." Arts et Métiers graphiques, no. 54 (August 15, 1936), p. 52, ill. Coll. Chappuis.
Reff 1962a
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 1973
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.

Baigneurs, étude de jambe et caryatide, c.1883–86 (FWN 3008-50b). Marcantonio Raimondi, La Cassolette, engraving after Raphael, V&A's collections, London.
Marcantonio Raimondi, La Cassolette, engraving after Raphael, V&A's collections, London.
Photo: © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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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 20, 2024).