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 2299
Feuille d'études
1880–81
Alternate titles: Etudes de têtes: l'épouse et le fils de l'artiste; études de personnages; Page of studies; Two portraits of Madame Cézanne, on a sheet with a portrait of Cézanne's son, etc.
Chappuis (821); Venturi (1474)
Graphite on paper
11 13/16 x 19 11/16 in. (30 x 50 cm)
Private collection, New York
Provenance
Private collection, New York
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, vol. I, as verso of no. 1474.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, cat. nos. 289 (figure of a boy, seen from behind), ill. and no. 328 (seated female figure), ill.
Reff, Theodore. "Book Reviews: Cézanne und die alten Meister by Gertrude Berthold." The Art Bulletin, vol. 42, no. 2 (June 1960), p. 148, Appendix, cat. 328, proposes a Louis XVI clock, probably by Gille l'Ainée as the model for the seated female figure.
Neubauer, Erika and Demus, Klaus. Exposition Cézanne: tableaux - aquarelles - dessins. Preface by Fritz Novotny. Aix-en-Provence: Ville d'Aix-en-Provence, 1961. Exhibition catalogue, p. 29, cat. no. 47 verso, as Etudes de têtes: l'épouse et le fils de l'artiste; études de personnages.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, nos. 65 and 163 (detail), ill., as Two portraits of Madame Cézanne, on a sheet with a portrait of Cézanne's son, etc.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 821, ill., as Page of studies.
Friedman, Samantha. "Condensation: Cézanne's Study Sheets." In Cézanne Drawing. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, p. 21, fig. 2.
Notes
The figure of a boy with his back turned is taken from a detail after Pedro de Moya's Joseph Sold by his Brothers.
![Feuille d'études, 1880–81 (FWN 2299). After Pedro de Moya, Joseph Sold by his Brothers, wood engraving printed in Charles Blanc, Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles: Ecole espagnole, Paris: Veuve J. Renouard, 1869, p. [181].](https://cdn.panopticoncr.com/ceza001/catalogue_images/supp_sm/Ch731_suppl_1.png)
After Pedro de Moya, Joseph Sold by his Brothers, wood engraving printed in Charles Blanc, Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles: Ecole espagnole, Paris: Veuve J. Renouard, 1869, p. [181].
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Feuille d'études, 1880–81 (FWN 2299)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2499 (accessed on May 2, 2025).
