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 3003-02a-TA
Deux esquisses de femmes
1883–86
Alternate title: Two sketches: women
Chappuis (639); Venturi (1266-03)
Graphite on wove paper, p. II from the CP I sketchbook
4 5/8 x 7 5/8 in. (11.8 x 19.4 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September 19–November 4, 1973, no. 48, ill. in b/w, catalogue note: p. 160, as Two sketches: women, lent by Robert Ratcliffe, London. Traveled to: Hayward Gallery, London, November 13–December 30, 1973.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1266-03, as "Page II".
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 639, ill., as Two sketches: women.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "Literature, Music and Cézanne's Early Subjects." In Cézanne: The Early Years 1859-1872. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1988. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 23, as Deux esquisses de femmes, c. 1883-86.
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 Chappuis I (CP I), 1871–92 (3003)
Sketchbook Chappuis I (CP I), 1871–92 (3003)
Notation on the back endpaper "LIV x 2" indicating the original number of recto and verso sheets of the sketchbook, which has since been disbanded and dispersed.
The page numbers are written in Roman numerals at the lower right corner of the recto pages.
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Record last updated May 6, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Deux esquisses de femmes, 1883–86 (FWN 3003-02a-TA), p. II from the CP I sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2310 (accessed on April 28, 2025).
