The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
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FWN 3018-35a
D'après François Girardon: Boileau-Despréaux
c.1892–95
Alternate titles: After Girardon: Boileau-Despréaux; Boileau-Despréaux, d'après Girardon; Copie d'après le "Buste du régent", par Coysevox; Etude d'après le buste du régent, par Coysevox; Studie nach Girardon: Boileau-Despréaux; Study from a Bust by Coysevox
Venturi (1317-03, 1320); Chappuis (1036): 1892–95
Graphite on wove paper, p. LXIX from the CP IV sketchbook
8 1/4 x 10 3/4 in. (21 x 27.3 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 61, as Etude d'après le buste du régent, par Coysevox, 1875-1882, lent by Adrien Chappuis.
Société des artistes indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, 50e exposition - Centenaire du peintre indépendant Paul Cézanne, March 17–April 10, 1939, no. 39, as Copie d'après le "Buste du régent," par Coysevox, c. 1885, lent by Adrien Chappuis.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 85, as Study from a Bust by Coysevox, c. 1885, lent by A. Chappius.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 121, ill., as Boileau-Despréaux, d'après Girardon, 1892-95, lent by M. and Mme A. Chappuis, Tresserve. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 193, ill. p. 298, as Studie nach Girardon: Boileau-Despréaux, 1892-1895, lent by Private collection, France.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1320, ill. vol. II, as "Page LXIX" (listed twice).
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, cat. no. 186, ill. (identified the subject).
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 1036, ill. (image cropped), as After Girardon: Boileau-Despréaux.
François Girardon, Nicolas Boileau, known as Despréaux, marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Photo: Stéphane Maréchalle; © RMN-Grand Palais
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This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Chappuis IV (CP IV), 1881; 1884–1900 (3018)
Sketchbook Chappuis IV (CP IV), 1881; 1884–1900 (3018)
The individual sheets in this sketchbook have been widely dispersed. Each page is numbered in Roman numerals.
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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 François Girardon: Boileau-Despréaux, c.1892–95 (FWN 3018-35a), p. LXIX from the CP IV sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2725 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
