The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
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Franck Raux; © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d'Orsay)
FWN 1747
Etude pour Mardi gras
c.1888
Alternate titles: Etudes pour le 'Mardi Gras'; Feuille d'études pour l'Arlequin dans "Mardi-Gras"; Mardi gras; Studie für "Mardi Gras"; Studies for Mardi Gras
Venturi (1473): circa 1888; Chappuis (938): c.1888
Graphite on laid paper
Watermark: Desloye "PL BAS"
9 5/8 x 12 1/16 in. (24.5 x 30.6 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne dans les musées nationaux, July 19–October 14, 1974, extended until October 28, no. 60, ill., as Feuille d'études pour l'Arlequin dans "Mardi-Gras", 1888.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 122, ill. in color, p. 315, as Etude pour Mardi gras, c. 1888, lent by Musée du Louvre, Paris, shown in Paris only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, New-York et l'art moderne. Alfred Stieglitz et son cercle (1905–1930), October 18, 2004–January 16, 2005, no. 34, p. 322, ill. in color p. 86, as Feuille d'études pour l'Arlequin dans "Mardi-Gras", c. 1888, lent by the Musée d'Orsay, Paris; included in catalogue as for Madrid exhibition only, but not shown anywhere. Traveled to: Museo nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid, February 10–May 16, 2005.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Les archives de rêve. Dessins du musée d'Orsay – Carte blanche à Werner Spies, March 25–June 30, 2014, p. 49 and 420, ill., as Feuille d'études pour l'Arlequin dans "Mardi-Gras", 1888 (Vienna ed.of cat.: p. 41 and 332, ill.); shown in Paris only. Traveled to: Albertina, Vienna, January 30–May 3, 2015 (Archiv der Träume. Meisterwerke aus dem Musée d'Orsay).
Published References
Duret, Théodore. Histoire des peintres impressionnistes: Pissarro, Claude Monet, Sisley, Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Cézanne, Guillaumin. Paris: H. Floury, 1906, ill. opposite p. 166.
Bernard, Émile. "Erinnerungen an Paul Cézanne." Kunst und Künstler 6, nos. 10-12 (1908), p. 424, ill.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 174.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 210.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 104, as Mardi gras, c. 1888.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1473, ill. vol. II, as Etudes pour le 'Mardi Gras'.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 174, ill. dated c. 1888.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 938, ill., as Studies for Mardi Gras.
Bellony-Rewald, Alice. The Lost World of the Impressionists. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976, p. 266-267, ill.
Tobien, Felicitas. Paul Cézanne. Ramerding: Berghaus, 1981, ill. p. 38, as Studie für "Mardi Gras", c. 1888.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 137.
Fraisse, Bernard. "Exposition Cézanne." Etudes (Paris) 383, no. 6 (December, 1995), p. 684, ill. p. 863, as Etude pour Mardi gras, c. 1888.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 93, fig. 2.43.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Die Zeichnungen Cézannes: Kleine Formate: Skizzen. Grosse Formate: Aquarelle ohne Farbe." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 222, ill.
Schubert, Karsten. "Cézanne, Chappuis and the Limits of Connoisseurship." The Burlington Magazine 148, no. 1242 (September 2006), fig. 41, as Studies for Mardi Gras.
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 611, no. 1463, ill. in color, as Etude pour Mardi gras, c. 1888.
Eiling, Alexander, Anett Göthe, Astrid Reuter, Bettina Kaufmann, Eva-Maria Höllerer, Juliane Betz and Julia Lachenmann. "Catalog." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 230 fig. 1.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Etude pour Mardi gras, c.1888 (FWN 1747)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2623 (accessed on April 28, 2024).
