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 3007-31b
D'après Michel-Ange: l'Esclave mourant
1884–87
Alternate titles: After Michelangelo: a slave; Dessin d'après un Esclave de Michel-Ange; L'Esclave mourant d'après Michel-Ange; Studie nach dem gefesselten Sklaven des Michelangeo
Chappuis (678); Venturi (1415)
Graphite on wove paper, p. XXXI verso from the BS III sketchbook
4 15/16 x 8 1/8 in. (12.5 x 20.7 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 166, as Studie nach dem gefesselten Sklaven des Michelangeo, c. 1885, lent by Robert von Hirsch, Basel.
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 148, ill., p. 136.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: The Basel Sketchbooks, March 10–June 5, 1988, listed p. 147, ill. p. 84.
Glyptothek, Munich, Skulpturenzeichnungen, July 19–September 18, 1994, no. 4, ill.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 201, ill.
Published References
Rewald, John. "Cézanne au Louvre." L'Amour de l'art 16, no. 8 (October 1935), ill. p. 284, with photograph of model.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1415, ill. vol. II, as "Page XIII".
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, cat. no. 64, fig. 122.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 678, ill., as After Michelangelo: a slave.
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 235, ill., as Dessin d'après un Esclave de Michel-Ange, 1884-1887.
Koepplin, Dieter. Paul Cézanne: Die Basler Zeichnungen. Basel: Kunstmuseum, 1988, no. 48, ill.
Cuzin, Jean Pierre et al. Copier créer: de Turner à Picasso: 300 œuvres inspirées par les maîtres du Louvre. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, p. 126, fig. 69a, as L'Esclave mourant d'après Michel-Ange.
Seger, Annegret. "The Reconstruction of the Basel Sketchbooks of Paul Cézanne." In The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas. Basel: Prestel, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 234, fig. 3 (detail).
Michelangelo, Captif ("l'Esclave mourant") (Dying Slave), marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Michelangelo, Captif ("l'Esclave mourant") (Dying Slave), marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Photo: Raphaël Chipault; © 2010 Musée du Louvre
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This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Basel III, 1878–1881 and 1897–1900 (3007)
Sketchbook Basel III, 1878–1881 and 1897–1900 (3007)
This sketchbook probably contained fifty-three or fifty-four sheets. The pages are numbered on the "a" side in Roman numerals at bottom right. Some sheets were sold separately in the 1930s and have been identified based on stains from an oil-binding agent or rust spots left when the sketchbook was unbound.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après Michel-Ange: l'Esclave mourant, 1884–87 (FWN 3007-31b), p. XXXI verso from the BS III sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2350 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
