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 3011-22b
D'après Houdon: Voltaire
c.1890
Alternate titles: After Houdon: Voltaire; Kopie nach einer Voltaire-Büste des Houdon; Studie nach Houdon: Voltaire
Chappuis (1018); Venturi (1344)
Graphite on wove paper, p. 22 verso from the BS I sketchbook
5 1/8 x 8 1/8 in. (13 x 20.6 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Künstlerkopien, September 18–October 17, 1937, no. 200, as Kopie nach einer Voltaire-Büste des Houdon, Kunstmuseum, Basel.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 191, ill. p. 295, as Studie nach Houdon: Voltaire, c. 1890, lent by Kunstmuseum Basel.
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 120, ill., p. 116.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: The Basel Sketchbooks, March 10–June 5, 1988, listed p. 148, ill. p. 111.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 88, ill.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 110, ill.
Published References
Rewald, John. "Cézanne au Louvre." L'Amour de l'art 16, no. 8 (October 1935), ill. p. 286, with photograph of model.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1344, ill. vol. II, as "Page XIX".
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, cat. no. 201, 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. 186, ill.
Cooper, Douglas. "Untitled." Review of Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle, by Adrien Chappuis. Master Drawings, vol. 1, no. 4 (Winter 1963), p. 56.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne Drawings." Review of Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle, by Adrien Chappuis. The Burlington Magazine 105, no. 725 (August 1963), p. 376.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 144, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 1018, ill., as After Houdon: Voltaire.
Koepplin, Dieter. Paul Cézanne: Die Basler Zeichnungen. Basel: Kunstmuseum, 1988, no. 71, ill.
Jean-Antoine Houdon, Voltaire (François Marie Arouet de Voltaire), bronze. Musée du Louvre, Paris (RF 345)
Photo: © 2006 Musée du Louvre, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn / Pierre Philibert
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Basel I, 1879–1900 (3011)
Sketchbook Basel I, 1879–1900 (3011)
The sheets in this sketchbook have been detached from the binding. Many have been trimmed so that there are slight variations in size. The "a" side is marked with Arabic numerals at the lower right.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après Houdon: Voltaire, c.1890 (FWN 3011-22b), p. 22 verso from the BS I sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2707 (accessed on May 14, 2025).
