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 3005-44a
Esquisse de tête
1885–89
Alternate title: Sketch of a head
Chappuis (686)
Graphite on wove paper, p. XLIV from the BS II sketchbook
4 13/16 x 8 1/4 in. (12.2 x 21 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 135a, ill., p. 126.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 130, ill.
Published References
Chappuis, Adrien. Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle. Olten and Lausanne: Urs Graf, 1962, no. 145, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 686, ill, as Sketch of a head.
Notes
Chappuis (1973, p. 186) suggests that the study of a head is from the antique marble Satyre Fould. See supplementary image and FWN 3005-43b from the same sketchbook.
Satyre known as 'Satyre Fould', c. 125-150 AD, Musée du Louvre, Ma 318, Paris.
Photo: © Musée du Louvre (distr. RMN-Grand Palais) / Carine Déambrosis et Daniel Lebée
Related work
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Basel II, 1880–83, after 1900 (3005)
Sketchbook Basel II, 1880–83, after 1900 (3005)
This sketchbook originally contained at least fifty-two sheets, but was disbanded and dispersed in the 1930s. The Kunstmuseum Basel holds the largest group.
The sheets are numbered in Roman numerals at lower right on the "a" side.
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current: Esquisse de tête, 1885–89 (3005-44a)
Record last updated August 27, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Esquisse de tête, 1885–89 (FWN 3005-44a), p. XLIV from the BS II sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2358 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
