The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
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Martin P. Bühler; © Kunstmuseum Basel - Martin P. Bühler
FWN 3005-45a
D'après l'antique: Orateur romain (Statue de Marcellus)
1887–90
Alternate titles: After the antique statue "Roman Orator" ('Germanicus"); After the antique statue of a Roman orator; Studie nach antiker Statue: Römischer Redner
Chappuis (993); Venturi (1383)
Graphite on wove paper, p. XLV from the BS II sketchbook
4 7/8 x 8 1/4 in. (12.3 x 21 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 182, ill. p. 285, as Studie nach antiker Statue: Römischer Redner, 1887-1890, lent by Kunstmuseum Basel.
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 92, ill., p. 95.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: The Basel Sketchbooks, March 10–June 5, 1988, listed p. 148, ill. p. 114.
Glyptothek, Munich, Skulpturenzeichnungen, July 19–September 18, 1994, no. 12, ill.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 131, ill.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 78, Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1383, ill. vol. II, as "Page XLV".
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, cat. no. 31, 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. 146, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 993, ill., as After the antique statue of a Roman orator.
Koepplin, Dieter. Paul Cézanne: Die Basler Zeichnungen. Basel: Kunstmuseum, 1988, no. 82, ill.
Bach, Friedrich Teja. "The Stake in the Pictorial Flesh: Disruptions in Cézanne's Oeuvre." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 73, fig. 19, as After the antique statue "Roman Orator" ('Germanicus"), Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Kupferstichkabinett, Basel.
Notes
The Roman nobleman represents Mercury, the god of messages and eloquence.
Roman, c. 20 BC, Statue funéraire et honorifique de Marcellus formerly known as Germanicus, marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Photo: Hervé Lewandowski; © 1996 RMN
Related work
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Basel II, 1880–83, after 1900 (3005)
Sketchbook Basel II, 1880–83, after 1900 (3005)
This sketchbook originally contained at least fifty-two sheets, but was disbanded and dispersed in the 1930s. The Kunstmuseum Basel holds the largest group.
The sheets are numbered in Roman numerals at lower right on the "a" side.
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current: D'après l'antique: Orateur romain (Statue de Marcellus), 1887–90 (3005-45a)
Record last updated March 14, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après l'antique: Orateur romain (Statue de Marcellus), 1887–90 (FWN 3005-45a), p. XLV from the BS II sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2682 (accessed on April 23, 2024).
