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 2154
D'après Michel-Ange: l'Esclave rebelle
1885–88
Alternate titles: "L'esclave" de Michel-Ange au Louvre; After Michelangelo: a slave; Dessin d'après un Esclave de Michel-Ange; Esclave de Michel-Ange; Etude d'après Michel Ange; Slave; Slave after Michelangelo's 'Rebellious Slave'; The rebellious Slave; The Slave (after Michelangelo)
Chappuis (679); Venturi (1443): 1879–82
Graphite on paper
17 3/4 x 11 1/2 in. (45.1 x 29.2 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition Paul Cézanne (au profit de la caisse du monument Cézanne), March 3–24, 1924.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 59, ill., as Esclave de Michel-Ange, 1879-82, lent by Paul Lamb.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Fifty Drawings from the Collection of John S. Newberry, June 1–September 11, 1949, no. 6, ill., p. 9.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 34, ill., as The Slave (after Michelangelo), 18979-82, lent by Mr. John S. Newberry, Jr, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York, French Master Drawings, Renaissance to Modern, 1959, no. 105.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, French Drawings from the Collection of John S. Newberry, 1960, no. 3.
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 91, c. 1880.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition Cézanne: Tableaux, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 1–August 15, 1961, no. 45, as "L'esclave" de Michel-Ange au Louvre, 1885-1888, lent by John S. Newberry, Michigan.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 76, ill. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
The Drawing Center, New York, Creative Copies: Interpretative Drawings from Michelangelo to Picasso, April 9–July 23, 1988, no. 65, ill., as The rebellious Slave.
National Art Center, Tokyo, Cézanne: Paris-Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012, no. 56, ill.
Published References
Denis, Maurice. "Le dessin de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 5, no. 2 (February 1924), ill. p. 38, as Dessin (Coll. Bernheim-Jeune).
Waldemar-George. Le dessin français de David à Cézanne et l'esprit de la tradition baroque. Paris: Editions chroniques du jour, 1929, pl. LXXXV.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1443, ill. vol. II, as Esclave de Michel-Ange.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, pp. 47, 50, cat. no. 58, fig. 86 (with a reproduction of a historical postcard of the Salle de Michel-Ange, Musée du Louvre).
"Appendix VI: Accessions, January 1 to December 31, 1965." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 45, no. 1 (1966), listed p. 19, as Slave.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 679, ill., as After Michelangelo: a slave.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 130, no. 05, ill. p. 132, as Esclave de Michel-Ange, 1885-88.
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 233, ill., as Dessin d'après un Esclave de Michel-Ange, 1885-1888.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "Cézanne and the Louvre." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 107, fig. 62, as Slave after Michelangelo's 'Rebellious Slave'.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 437, ill., as Etude d'après Michel Ange.
Record last updated August 23, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après Michel-Ange: l'Esclave rebelle, 1885–88 (FWN 2154)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2351 (accessed on July 5, 2025).
