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 3007-03a
Tête, baigneuse et annotations diverses
c.1888
Alternate titles: Head, woman bather, handwritten notations; Portrait of an unidentified woman, probably Madame Cezanne, on a sheet with a nude female figure
Chappuis (963); Venturi (1434)
Graphite on wove paper, p. III from the BS III sketchbook
4 15/16 x 8 1/16 in. (12.6 x 20.5 cm)
Notations in the artist's hand: Gravure 18 fr. Chevalet / pain 7.75 / Chabod 4 / Fontainebleau 15 / frotteur 10 / Blanc 4 / Outremer 3 / Cobalt 2 / Ocre jaune 4 /Vert véronese 5 / Terre verte 5 / Garance foncée 2 / Garance rose 2 petits / Vert Emeraude / Vermillion
Exhibition History
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 80, ill., p. 87.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: The Basel Sketchbooks, March 10–June 5, 1988, listed p. 148, ill. p. 91.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 188, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1434, ill. vol. II, as "Page XXVIII".
Chappuis, Adrien. Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle. Olten and Lausanne: Urs Graf, 1962, no. 130, ill.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 73, ill., as Portrait of an unidentified woman, probably Madame Cezanne, on a sheet with a nude female figure.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 963, ill., as Head, woman bather, handwritten notations.
Koepplin, Dieter. Paul Cézanne: Die Basler Zeichnungen. Basel: Kunstmuseum, 1988, no. 58, ill.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 283, no. 74, ill.
Seger, Annegret. "The Reconstruction of the Basel Sketchbooks of Paul Cézanne." In The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas. Basel: Prestel, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 237, fig. 6 (detail).
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Basel III, 1878–1881 and 1897–1900 (3007)
Sketchbook Basel III, 1878–1881 and 1897–1900 (3007)
This sketchbook probably contained fifty-three or fifty-four sheets. The pages are numbered on the "a" side in Roman numerals at bottom right. Some sheets were sold separately in the 1930s and have been identified based on stains from an oil-binding agent or rust spots left when the sketchbook was unbound.
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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. "Tête, baigneuse et annotations diverses, c.1888 (FWN 3007-03a), p. III from the BS III sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2649 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
