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 3005-09a
D'après l'antique: Vénus accroupie
1894–97
Alternate title: After the antique: Crouching Venus
Chappuis (1099); Venturi (1367)
Graphite on wove paper, p. IX from the BS II sketchbook
4 13/16 x 8 1/4 in. (12.2 x 21 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 128, lent by Kunstmuseum Basel.
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 77, ill., p. 84.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: The Basel Sketchbooks, March 10–June 5, 1988, listed p. 149, ill. p. 130.
Glyptothek, Munich, Skulpturenzeichnungen, July 19–September 18, 1994, no. 17, ill.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 123, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1367, ill. vol. II, as "Page IX".
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, pp. 34, 52, cat. no. 22, ill.
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. 126, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 1099, ill., as After the antique: Crouching Venus.
Koepplin, Dieter. Paul Cézanne: Die Basler Zeichnungen. Basel: Kunstmuseum, 1988, no. 104, ill.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 287, no. 93, ill.
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
Roman Imperial Periode (1st - 2nd century AD) after a Greek original, 3rd century BC, Aphrodite accroupie, marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
In Cezanne's day, the head and right arm of this statue had been restored and are copied here. The additions were later removed.
Photo: © Musée du Louvre
Related work
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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current: D'après l'antique: Vénus accroupie, 1894–97 (3005-09a)
Record last updated September 30, 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, 1894–97 (FWN 3005-09a), p. IX 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=2790 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
