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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)
Catalogue entry
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FWN 3008-35b
Tête de Paul Cezanne fils, baigneuse et tête d'après Rubens: Cères
c.1879, 1882–83 and c. 1880
Alternate titles: Page of studies; Page of studies: head; woman bather; Page of studies: the artist's son; head of Ceres (after Rubens); female bather; Paul Cézanne Junior; Striding Bather; Head after Rubens; Tête de P. Cézanne fils et plusieurs motifs
Venturi (1290-09); Chappuis (832): head, 1882–83; woman bather, c.1880, Ceres, 1879
Graphite on wove paper, p. XXXV verso from the CP II sketchbook
4 15/16 x 8 11/16 in. (12.5 x 22 cm)
Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Paul Guillaume, Paris
Adrien Chappuis, Tresserve (1934);
Chappuis-Barut Collection, Christie's, London, June 26, 2003, no. 339, ill.; bought in
Karsten Schubert, London;
Estate of Karsten Schubert;
Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester
Exhibition History
2019–20 Manchester
The Whitworth, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Cézanne at the Whitworth, August 20, 2019–March 1, 2020, no. 12, ill., as Paul Cézanne Junior; Striding Bather; Head after Rubens, lent by Estate of Karsten Schubert, on extended loan to The Whitworth, The University of Manchester.2021a New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 15, The Whitworth, University of Manchester.Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1290-09, as "Page XXXV v."Chappuis 1938
Chappuis, Adrien. Dessins de Paul Cézanne. Paris: Editions des chroniques du jour, 1938, no. 28, ill., as Tête de P. Cézanne fils et plusieurs motifs.Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, cat. no. 319, ill. with detail of the woman's head (unidentified).Reff 1960c
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. 319, proposes a Louis XVI clock, probably by Gille l'Ainée as the model for the woman's head.Chappuis 1965
Chappuis, Adrien. "Cézanne dessinateur: copies et ilustrations." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 66, periode 6 (November 1965), fig. 7 (detail).Andersen 1970
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 159, ill.Chappuis 1973
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 832, ill., as Page of studies: head; woman bather.Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 283, no. 72, ill.Schubert 2006
Schubert, Karsten. "Cézanne, Chappuis and the Limits of Connoisseurship." The Burlington Magazine 148, no. 1242 (September 2006), fig. 31, as Page of studies: the artist's son; head of Ceres (after Rubens); female bather.Shiff 2017
Shiff, Richard. "Reanimation." In The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas. Basel: Prestel, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 82, fig. 5.
After Peter Paul Rubens: engraving after the painting of Ceres held in in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg; the engraving was published in Le Magazin Pittoresque, 1879, p. 137.
Photo: © gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France
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Record last updated November 10, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Tête de Paul Cezanne fils, baigneuse et tête d'après Rubens: Cères, c.1879, 1882–83 and c. 1880 (FWN 3008-35b), p. XXXV verso from the CP II sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2510&sketchbook=3008 (accessed on May 4, 2024).
