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 3005-47b
D'après Poussin: jeune femme des Bergers d'Arcadie
1887–90
Alternate titles: After Nicolas Poussin, Arcadian Shepherdess; After Poussin: Arcadian shepherdess; Etude d'après Les Bergers d'Arcadie de Poussin; Femme debout, d'après les Bergers d'Arcadie de Poussin; Studie nach Poussin: Arkadische Hirten
Chappuis (1012); Venturi (1387)
Graphite on wove paper, p. XLVII verso from the BS II sketchbook
4 13/16 x 7 15/16 in. (12.2 x 20.1 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 184, ill. p. 287, as Studie nach Poussin: Arkadische Hirten, 1887-1890, lent by Kunstmuseum Basel.
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 79, ill., p. 86.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: The Basel Sketchbooks, March 10–June 5, 1988, listed p. 148, ill. p. 95.
Musée du Louvre, Paris, Copier Créer: de Turner à Picasso: 300 œuvres inspirées par les maîtres du Louvre, April 26–July 26, 1993, no. 120, ill., as Etude d'après Les Bergers d'Arcadie de Poussin, lent by Kunstmuseum Basel.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 64, ill.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 133, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1387, ill. vol. II, as "Page XLVII v."
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, pp. 30-31, cat. no. 233, fig. 15.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne and Poussin." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 23, nos. 1–2 (January–June 1960), p. 171.
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. 128, ill.
Andersen, Wayne V. "A Cézanne Drawing after Couture." Master Drawings, vol. 1, no. 4 (Winter 1963), pp. 44-45, pl 39 p. [101].
Reff, Theodore. "Copyists in the Louvre." The Art Bulletin 46, no. 4 (December 1964), p. 555.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 80, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 1012, ill., as After Poussin: Arcadian shepherdess.
Koepplin, Dieter. Paul Cézanne: Die Basler Zeichnungen. Basel: Kunstmuseum, 1988, no. 64, ill.
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision of Landscape. Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland, 1990. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 28.
Vierneisel, Klaus. In Paul Cézanne: Skulpturenzeichnungen. Munich: Staatliche Antikenammlung und Glyptothek, 1994. Exhibition catalogue, ill. frontispiece, listed p. 60 under cat. no. 8 (erroneously listed as no. Ch1011).
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 193, fig. 5.3
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 599, no. 1427, ill. in color p. 598, as Femme debout, d'après les Bergers d'Arcadie de Poussin, 1887-1890.
Geskó, Judit. "'Builderly' Painting: The Making of an Exhibition." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 20, cat. 64, ill., as After Nicolas Poussin, Arcadian Shepherdess.
Nicolas Poussin, Les Bergers d'Arcadie, dit aussi Et in Arcadia ego, oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
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 28, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après Poussin: jeune femme des Bergers d'Arcadie, 1887–90 (FWN 3005-47b), p. XLVII verso 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=2701 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
