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)
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Martin P. Bühler; © Kunstmuseum Basel - Martin P. Bühler
FWN 3007-07a
D'après l'antique: Arès Borghèse
1894–97
Alternate titles: After the antique: The Borghese Mars; Figurenstudie, nach dem sog. Ares Borghese (Louvre)
Chappuis (1056); Venturi (1340)
Graphite on wove paper, p. VII from the BS III sketchbook
4 15/16 x 8 1/8 in. (12.6 x 20.7 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Meisterzeichnungen französischer Künstler von Ingres bis Cézanne, June 29–August 18, 1935, no. 199, as Figurenstudie, nach dem sog. Ares Borghese (Louvre), lent by Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel.
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 106, ill., p. 104.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: The Basel Sketchbooks, March 10–June 5, 1988, listed p. 148, ill. p. 117.
Glyptothek, Munich, Skulpturenzeichnungen, July 19–September 18, 1994, no. 11, ill.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 192, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1340, ill. vol. II, as "Page XVI".
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 27, cat. no. 5, fig. 20.
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. 163, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 1056, ill., as After the antique: The Borghese Mars.
Koepplin, Dieter. Paul Cézanne: Die Basler Zeichnungen. Basel: Kunstmuseum, 1988, no. 85, ill.
Roman Imperial Period (1st -2nd Century AD ?), Arès dit "Arès Borghèse" (The Borghese Mars), marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Photo: © Musée du Louvre
Related work
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Basel III, 1878–1881 and 1897–1900 (3007)
Sketchbook Basel III, 1878–1881 and 1897–1900 (3007)
This sketchbook probably contained fifty-three or fifty-four sheets. The pages are numbered on the "a" side in Roman numerals at bottom right. Some sheets were sold separately in the 1930s and have been identified based on stains from an oil-binding agent or rust spots left when the sketchbook was unbound.
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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 l'antique: Arès Borghèse, 1894–97 (FWN 3007-07a), p. VII from the BS III sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2745 (accessed on April 26, 2024).
