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Catalogue entry

FWN 3015-52b
D'après l'antique: Vénus de Milo
1881–84
Alternate titles: After the antique: Venus of Milo; Studie nach der Venus von Milo im Louvre
Chappuis (635); Venturi (1315)
Graphite on wove paper, p. LII verso from the CP III sketchbook
6 x 9 5/16 in. (15.2 x 23.7 cm)

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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.
Exhibition History
1950 Vienna
Albertina, Vienna, Meisterwerke aus Frankreichs Museen: Zeichnungen französischer Künstler vom Ausgang des Mittelalters bis Cézanne, Autumn 1950, no. 254, as Studie nach der Venus von Milo im Louvre.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1315, ill. vol. II, as "Page LII v."
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 51, cat. no. 11, fig. 112.
Chappuis 1966
Chappuis, Adrien. Album de Paul Cézanne. Paris: Berggruen, 1966, vol. 1, p. 84, ill. vol. 2, 1882-83.
Chappuis 1973
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 635, ill., as After the antique: Venus of Milo.
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. 5.
D'après l'antique: Vénus de Milo, 1881–84 (FWN 3015-52b). Greek, c. 100 BC, Aphrodite, dite Vénus de Milo (The Venus of Milo), marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Greek, c. 100 BC, Aphrodite, dite Vénus de Milo (The Venus of Milo), marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.

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Record last updated June 5, 2019. 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: Vénus de Milo, 1881–84 (FWN 3015-52b), p. LII 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=2306 (accessed on March 29, 2024).