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Catalogue entry

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)
Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett

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Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Paul Guillaume, Paris
Werner Feuz, Bern
Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett (1935)
Exhibition History
1937 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Künstlerkopien, September 18–October 17, 1937, no. 200, as Kopie nach einer Voltaire-Büste des Houdon, Kunstmuseum, Basel.
1978 Tübingen
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.
1979 Rome
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 120, ill., p. 116.
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. 111.
2012–13 Budapest
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 88, ill.
2017 Basel
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 110, ill.
Published References
Rewald 1935
Rewald, John. "Cézanne au Louvre." L'Amour de l'art 16, no. 8 (October 1935), ill. p. 286, with photograph of model.
Raynal 1936
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. CVIII p. 143.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1344, ill. vol. II, as "Page XIX".
Chappuis 1957
Chappuis, Adrien. Dessins de Cézanne. Lausanne: 1957, p. 93, no. 52, pl. 52.
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, cat. no. 201, 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. 186, ill.
Cooper 1963a
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 1963c
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 1968
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 144, ill.
Chappuis 1973
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 1988
Koepplin, Dieter. Paul Cézanne: Die Basler Zeichnungen. Basel: Kunstmuseum, 1988, no. 71, ill.
D'après Houdon: Voltaire, c.1890 (FWN 3011-22b). Jean-Antoine Houdon, Voltaire (François Marie Arouet de Voltaire), marble, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Jean-Antoine Houdon, Voltaire (François Marie Arouet de Voltaire), marble, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Record last updated September 29, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
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 10, 2024).