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 3007-08a
D'après Pigalle: Mercure
c.1890
Alternate titles: After Pigalle: Mercury; Dessin d'après le Mercure de Pigalle
Chappuis (974); Venturi (1430)
Graphite on wove paper, p. VIII from the BS III sketchbook
4 15/16 x 8 1/8 in. (12.5 x 20.7 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 149, ill., p. 137.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: The Basel Sketchbooks, March 10–June 5, 1988, listed p. 148, ill. p. 110.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 56, ill., as D'après Pigalle: Mercure, c. 1890, lent by Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 193, ill.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 117, Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1430, , ill. vol. II, as "Page XXIV".
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 36, cat. no. 154, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 974, ill.
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 236, ill., as Dessin d'après le Mercure de Pigalle, c. 1890.
Koepplin, Dieter. Paul Cézanne: Die Basler Zeichnungen. Basel: Kunstmuseum, 1988, no. 103, ill.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 58, fig. 2.5
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, Mercure attachant ses talonnières, marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Photo: Pierre Philibert; © Musée du Louvre
Related work
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 June 7, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après Pigalle: Mercure, c.1890 (FWN 3007-08a), p. VIII 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=2661 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
