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 2313
L'Ecorché et interieur avec chaise
1887–90
Alternate titles: L'Ecorché de Michel-ange; L'Ecorché, intérieur avec chaise; L'Ecorché, intérieur avec une chaise; L'Ecorché, interior with a chair; Skizzenblatt mit Studie nach kleiner Muskelfigur (Gipsmodell); The Écorché and Interior with Chair
Chappuis (980); Venturi (1586): c.1895
Graphite on laid paper
Watermark: Saint Mars
12 5/16 x 18 13/16 in. (31.2 x 47.7 cm)
Exhibition History
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 112, ill., as L'Ecorché, intérieur avec chaise, 1887-90, lent by Kupferstichkabinett Basel. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 180, ill. p. 282, as Skizzenblatt mit Studie nach kleiner Muskelfigur (Gipsmodell), 1887-1890, lent by Kunstmuseum Basel.
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 98, ill., p. 98.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: The Basel Sketchbooks, March 10–June 5, 1988, listed p. 148, ill. p. 103.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 111, ill. in color, p. 292, as L'Ecorché, intérieur avec chaise, 1887-1890, lent by Kunstmuseum, Basel. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Picasso, Cézanne, May 25–September 27, 2009, no. 24, ill., as L'Ecorché, intérieur avec une chaise.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 96, ill.
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 70, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1586, ill. vol. II, as L'Ecorché de Michel-ange.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 23, cat. no. 66, ill.
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. 153, ill.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 131, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 980, ill., as L'Ecorché, interior with a chair.
Koepplin, Dieter. Paul Cézanne: Die Basler Zeichnungen. Basel: Kunstmuseum, 1988, no. 70, ill.
Kitschen, Friederike. Cézanne: Stilleben. Ostfildern-Ruit: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1995, fig. 55.
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 593, no. 1415, ill. in color, as L'Ecorché, interior with a chair, 1887-1890.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "Flayed Figures and Plaster Casts: Cézanne's Ecorchés, their Origins and Progeny." In Cézanne and the past : tradition and creativity [international symposium, Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, 28 January 2013]. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2017, fig. 5.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 343, fig. 5, as The Écorché and Interior with Chair.
Record last updated June 6, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Ecorché et interieur avec chaise, 1887–90 (FWN 2313)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2667 (accessed on May 3, 2025).
