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Catalogue entry

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)
Musée d'Orsay, held in the Musée du Louvre, département des arts graphiques, Paris (RF 28802, recto)

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Provenance
Antonin Peronnaz, Bayonne;
Musée du Louvre, Paris (Gift of Antonin Peronnaz, 1937);
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Exhibition History
1974b Paris
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.
1995–96 Paris and traveling
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.
2004–05 Paris and traveling
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.
2014–15a Paris and traveling
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 1906
Duret, Théodore. Histoire des peintres impressionnistes: Pissarro, Claude Monet, Sisley, Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Cézanne, Guillaumin. Paris: H. Floury, 1906, ill. opposite p. 166.
Bernard 1908a
Bernard, Émile. "Erinnerungen an Paul Cézanne." Kunst und Künstler 6, nos. 10-12 (1908), p. 424, ill.
Meier-Graefe 1910
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1910, ill. p. 27.
Meier-Graefe 1913
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1913, ill. p. 27.
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, p. 148, ill.
Meier-Graefe 1918a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 174.
Zeisho 1921
Zeisho, Atzouji. Paul Cézanne. Tokyo: Rakuyodo, Taisho, 1921, pl. 20.
Meier-Graefe 1922
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 1927
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 104, as Mardi gras, c. 1888.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1473, ill. vol. II, as Etudes pour le 'Mardi Gras'.
Andersen 1970
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 174, ill. dated c. 1888.
Chappuis 1973
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 1976
Bellony-Rewald, Alice. The Lost World of the Impressionists. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976, p. 266-267, ill.
Tobien 1981
Tobien, Felicitas. Paul Cézanne. Ramerding: Berghaus, 1981, ill. p. 38, as Studie für "Mardi Gras", c. 1888.
Barskaya 1983a
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 137.
Kendall 1988
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 174, ill.
Verdi 1992
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 135, fig. 114.
Fraisse 1995
Fraisse, Bernard. "Exposition Cézanne." Etudes (Paris) 383, no. 6 (December, 1995), p. 684, ill. p. 863, as Etude pour Mardi gras, c. 1888.
Cahn 1995b
Cahn, Isabelle. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 1995, p. 86, ill.
Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 250, fig. 154.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer 2003
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 2005d
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 2006
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 2011
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 et al. 2017
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 May 12, 2024).