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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
FWN 3011-20a-TA
D'après Houdon: Diderot
c.1888
Alternate title: J.-A. Houdon: Diderot
Chappuis (943); Venturi (1341)
Graphite on wove paper, possibly p. 20 from the BS I sketchbook
5 3/16 x 8 9/16 in. (13.1 x 21.8 cm)
Private collection
Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Paul Guillaume, Paris
Werner Feuz, Bern
Carl Roesch, Diessenhofen
Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland, June 22, 2001, no. 24, ill
Private collection
Exhibition History
1953 Lausanne
La vieille Fontaine, Lausanne, Switzerland, De David à Cézanne, Dessins français du XIXe siècle, February 14–March 26, 1953, no. 107, cited by error as Venturi no. 1328.Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1341, ill. vol. II, as "Page XVII".Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, cat. no. 324, ill.Chappuis 1973
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 943, ill., as J.-A. Houdon: Diderot.
Jean-Antoine Houdon, Denis Diderot, terracotta, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
The terracotta bust in the Louvre served as a model for this marble version which is kept in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Record last updated September 21, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après Houdon: Diderot, c.1888 (FWN 3011-20a-TA), possibly p. 20 from the BS I sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2628 (accessed on April 26, 2024).
