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)
FWN 3002-04a-TA
D'après Thomas Couture: étude de buste de femme
1883–86
Alternate titles: After Thomas Couture: half-length sketch of a woman; Etude d'un buste de femme, d'après Les Romains de la décadence de Thomas Couture
Chappuis (638)
Graphite on wove paper, p. 4 removed from the EH I sketchbook
4 9/16 x 7 3/16 in. (11.6 x 18.2 cm)
Private collection
Provenance
Published References
Rewald, John. Cézanne: Carnets de Dessins, 2 vols. Paris: Quatre Chemins-Editart, 1951, C I, no. 4 (listed as missing).
Andersen, Wayne V. "A Cézanne Drawing after Couture." Master Drawings, vol. 1, no. 4 (Winter 1963), pp. 44–45, pl. 38 p. [100].
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 638, ill., as After Thomas Couture: half-length sketch of a woman.
Shoemaker, Innis, and Theodore Reff. Paul Cézanne: Two Sketchbooks. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, p. 37 (Sketchbook I; page 4 recto [missing]), ill. and p. 18, fig. 2.
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 599, no. 1428, ill. in b/w p. 598, as Etude d'un buste de femme, d'après Les Romains de la décadence de Thomas Couture, 1882-1885.
Notes
Drawn after the nude figure at center right in Thomas Couture's painting The Romans of the Decadence.
Thomas Couture, Romains de la décadence (The Romans of the Decadence), oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Related
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Philadelphia I (EH 1), 1882–90 (3002)
Sketchbook Philadelphia I (EH 1), 1882–90 (3002)
Notation on back endpaper "47 x 2", indicating the number of 47 recto and verso sheets. Some of these sheets have been removed.
The page numbers are written in Arabic numerals at the lower right corner of most of the recto pages in a soft bluish-gray pencil.
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Record last updated November 6, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après Thomas Couture: étude de buste de femme, 1883–86 (FWN 3002-04a-TA), p. 4 removed from the EH I sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2309 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
