The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
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Adrien Didierjean; © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d'Orsay)
FWN 3013-03a
D'après l'antique: Vénus accroupie
1894–97
Alternate titles: After the antique: Crouching Venus; Hockende Venus. Studie nach der Antike
Chappuis (1100)
Graphite on wove paper, p. 3 from the ML sketchbook
5 3/16 x 8 1/2 in. (13.2 x 21.6 cm)
Provenance
Published References
Rewald, John. Cézanne: Carnets de Dessins, 2 vols. Paris: Quatre Chemins-Editart, 1951, C III, p. 3.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 34, cat. no. 23, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 1100, ill., as After the antique: Crouching Venus.
Tobien, Felicitas. Paul Cézanne. Ramerding: Berghaus, 1981, ill. p. 31, as Hockende Venus. Studie nach der Antike, 1894-97.
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 Paris II, 1888–92 (3013)
Sketchbook Paris II, 1888–92 (3013)
This sketchbook is intact and numbered on the "a" side in Arabic numerals. Several sheets are made of colored paper, most of them blank.
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current: D'après l'antique: Vénus accroupie, 1894–97 (3013-03a)
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 3013-03a), p. 3 from the ML sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2791 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
