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Catalogue entry

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

Keywords

  • Figure compositions
    Individual subject:
  • Studies
    After paintings and works on paper:
Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Paul Guillaume, Paris
Kenneth Clark, London
Private collection
Published References
Rewald 1951
Rewald, John. Cézanne: Carnets de Dessins, 2 vols. Paris: Quatre Chemins-Editart, 1951, C I, no. 4 (listed as missing).
Andersen 1963b
Andersen, Wayne V. "A Cézanne Drawing after Couture." Master Drawings, vol. 1, no. 4 (Winter 1963), pp. 44–45, pl. 38 p. [100].
Chappuis 1973
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 and Reff 1989
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 2011
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.

D'après Thomas Couture: étude de buste de femme, 1883–86 (FWN 3002-04a-TA). Thomas Couture, Romains de la décadence (The Romans of the Decadence), oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Thomas Couture, Romains de la décadence (The Romans of the Decadence), oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

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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).