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)
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Martin P. Bühler; © Kunstmuseum Basel - Martin P. Bühler
FWN 3005-40a
D'après Puget: Hercule au repos
1887–90
Alternate titles: After Pierre Puget, Hercules Resting; After Puget: Hercules resting
Chappuis (1004); Venturi (1375)
Graphite on wove paper, p. XL from the BS II sketchbook
4 3/4 x 8 1/16 in. (12.1 x 20.4 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 100, c. 1890.
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September 19–November 4, 1973, no. 60, ill. in b/w, catalogue note: p. 163, as After Puget: Hercules resting, lent by Kunstmuseum Basel. Traveled to: Hayward Gallery, London, November 13–December 30, 1973.
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 93, 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. 105.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 151, ill.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, Kunstmuseum Basel, Kuperferstichkabinett.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1375, ill. vol. II, as "Page XL".
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, pp. 21, 53, cat. no. 115, 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. 148, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 1004, ill., as After Puget: Hercules resting.
Koepplin, Dieter. Paul Cézanne: Die Basler Zeichnungen. Basel: Kunstmuseum, 1988, no. 90, ill.
Herding, Klaus. "A Dramatic Interplay in Form and Expression: Cézanne and Puget." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 84, fig. 43, as After Pierre Puget, Hercules Resting.
Pierre Puget, Hercule au repos dit aussi Hercule gaulois, marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
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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Record last updated September 24, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après Puget: Hercule au repos, 1887–90 (FWN 3005-40a), p. XL 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=2693 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
