The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
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FWN 3003-42a
D'après l'antique: Vénus accroupie
c.1894–97
Alternate titles: After the antique: Crouching Venus; Copie nach einer antiken Figur "Kauernde Venus"; Studie nach antiker Statue: Hockende Venus; Venus accroupie
Venturi (1275); Chappuis (1098): 1894–97
Graphite on wove paper, p. XLII from the CP I sketchbook
4 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. (12 x 19.6 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 122, as Copie nach einer antiken Figur "Kauernde Venus", c. 1880, lent by Adrien Chappuis, Paris.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 126, ill. 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. 190, ill. p. 294, as Studie nach antiker Statue: Hockende Venus, 1894-1897, lent by Private collection, France.
The Whitworth, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Cézanne at the Whitworth, August 20, 2019–March 1, 2020, no. 15, ill., as After the antique: Crouching Venus, lent by Estate of Karsten Schubert, on extended loan to The Whitworth, The University of Manchester.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 47, ill. shown in London only. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1275 , ill. vol. II, as "Page XLII," (verso not mentioned).
Chappuis, Adrien. Dessins de Paul Cézanne. Paris: Editions des chroniques du jour, 1938, no. 21, ill., as Venus accroupie.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, pp. 34, 47, 54, cat. no. 21, fig. 139.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 1098, ill., as After the 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 Chappuis I (CP I), 1871–92 (3003)
Sketchbook Chappuis I (CP I), 1871–92 (3003)
Notation on the back endpaper "LIV x 2" indicating the original number of recto and verso sheets of the sketchbook, which has since been disbanded and dispersed.
The page numbers are written in Roman numerals at the lower right corner of the recto pages.
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current: D'après l'antique: Vénus accroupie, c.1894–97 (3003-42a)
Record last updated August 11, 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: Vénus accroupie, c.1894–97 (FWN 3003-42a), p. XLII from the CP I sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2789 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
