Catalogue entry

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)

Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett

Keywords

Figure compositions
Bathers and Nudes:
- male nude(s) / homme(s) nu(s) »
Figure compositions
Historical and Allegorical:
- allegory »
Studies
After sculpture:
- after the Antique »

Provenance

Paul Cézanne fils, Paris

Paul Guillaume, Paris

Werner Feuz, Bern

Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett (1935)

Exhibition History

1978 Tübingen

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.

1979 Rome

Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 92, ill., p. 95.

1988d New York

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: The Basel Sketchbooks, March 10–June 5, 1988, listed p. 148, ill. p. 114.

1994 Munich

Glyptothek, Munich, Skulpturenzeichnungen, July 19–September 18, 1994, no. 12, ill.

2017 Basel

Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 131, ill.

2021a New York

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 78, Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett.

Published References

Venturi 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1383, ill. vol. II, as "Page XLV".

Berthold 1958

Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, cat. no. 31, ill.

Chappuis 1962

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 1973

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.

Fuchs 1983

Fuchs, Werner. Die Skulptur der Griechen. München: Hirmer, 1983, no. 73, pp. 80, 584.

Koepplin 1988

Koepplin, Dieter. Paul Cézanne: Die Basler Zeichnungen. Basel: Kunstmuseum, 1988, no. 82, ill.

Bach 2000

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.

D'après l'antique: Orateur romain (Statue de Marcellus), 1887–90 (FWN 3005-45a). Roman, c. 20 BC, Statue funéraire et honorifique de Marcellus formerly known as Germanicus, marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Roman, c. 20 BC, Statue funéraire et honorifique de Marcellus formerly known as Germanicus, marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Related work

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 24, 2024).