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 3002-11b
D'après l'antique: Vénus accroupie
1892–96
Alternate titles: After the antique: Crouching Venus; Antique Crouching Venus
Chappuis (1097)
Graphite on wove paper, p. 11 verso from the EH I sketchbook
4 9/16 x 7 3/16 in. (11.6 x 18.2 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Glyptothek, Munich, Skulpturenzeichnungen, July 19–September 18, 1994, no. 16, ill.
Published References
Rewald, John. Cézanne: Carnets de Dessins, 2 vols. Paris: Quatre Chemins-Editart, 1951, C I, p. 11 verso, pl. 118.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, pp. 34, 47, 50, cat. no. 19, fig. 87.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 141, mentioned.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 1097, ill., as After the antique: Crouching Venus.
Reff, Theodore. "Painting and Theory in the Final Decade." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 43, ill.
Shoemaker, Innis, and Theodore Reff. Paul Cézanne: Two Sketchbooks. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, p. 54 (Sketchbook I; page 11 verso), ill., as Antique Crouching Venus.
Roman Imperial Periode (1st - 2nd century AD) after a Greek original, 3rd -2nd century BC, Aphrodite accroupie dit Vénus de Vienne, marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Photo: Jastrow
Modern copy of the sculpture in the Louvre.
Related work
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Philadelphia I (EH 1), 1882–90 (3002)
Sketchbook Philadelphia I (EH 1), 1882–90 (3002)
Notation on back endpaper "47 x 2", indicating the number of 47 recto and verso sheets. Some of these sheets have been removed.
The page numbers are written in Arabic numerals at the lower right corner of most of the recto pages in a soft bluish-gray pencil.
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current: D'après l'antique: Vénus accroupie, 1892–96 (3002-11b)
Record last updated June 4, 2019. 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: Vénus accroupie, 1892–96 (FWN 3002-11b), p. 11 verso from the EH I sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2788 (accessed on April 26, 2024).
