The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
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FWN 3005-34a
D'après Coysevox: Portrait de Charles le Brun
1892–95
Alternate titles: After Coysevox: bust of Charles Le Brun; Charles Le Brun, after Coysevox; Charles Le Brun, d'après Coysevox; Copie nach der Bildnisbüste des Malers Ch. Le Brun, von Antoine Coysevox; Kopie nach einer Porträtbüste des 17. Jhdts.
Chappuis (1026); Venturi (1369)
Graphite on wove paper, p. XXXIV from the BS II sketchbook
4 15/16 x 8 1/2 in. (12.5 x 21.5 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Meisterzeichnungen französischer Künstler von Ingres bis Cézanne, June 29–August 18, 1935, no. 185, as Kopie nach einer Porträtbüste des 17. Jhdts. lent by Prof. Dr. Adolf Busch, Riehen.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 132, as Copie nach der Bildnisbüste des Malers Ch. Le Brun, von Antoine Coysevox, 1880s, lent by Prof. Dr. Adolf Busch, Riehen.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Poussin to Cézanne: French Drawings from the Prat Collection, November 7, 2004–January 17, 2005, no. 99, ill., as Charles Le Brun, after Coysevox, c. 1892-95. Traveled to: Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, February 5–April 3, 2005; Museum of Art, Naples, Florida, April 17–June 12, 2005; Museum of Art, Philadelphia, June 16–September 25, 2005.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, David to Cézanne, Master Drawings from the Prat Collection, September 22–December 5, 2010, no. 98, ill.
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 12, ill. lent by Véronique et Louis-Antoine Prat, Paris.
Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Art de la Ville de Paris, Paris, La force du dessin: chefs d’œuvre de la collection Prat, June 16–October 4, 2020, no. 183, ill., as Charles Le Brun, d'après Coysevox.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1369, ill. vol. II, as "Page XXXIV".
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 55, cat. no. 181, fig. 142.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 1026, ill., as After Coysevox: bust of Charles Le Brun.
Rosenberg, Pierre. Passion for Drawing: Poussin to Cézanne, Works from the Prat Collection. Alexandria, Virginia: Art Services International, pp. 290-291, no. 99, ill.
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 593, no. 1416, ill. in color, as Charles Le Brun, d'après Coysevox, 1892-1895.
Charles-Antoine Coysevox, Portrait présumé de Charles Le Brun, premier peintre du roi de France Louis XIV (1643-1715) (Presumed Portrait of Charles Le Brun), marble, Musée du Louvre, Louvre-Lens.
Photo: René-Gabriel Ojéda; © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre)
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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facing: missing sheet (3005-26–33b)
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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 Coysevox: Portrait de Charles le Brun, 1892–95 (FWN 3005-34a), p. XXXIV 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=2715 (accessed on April 19, 2024).
