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 3011-18a
D'après le buste d'un homme (Pseudo-Vitellius?)
1894–98
Alternate title: After a bust of a man
Chappuis (1106); Venturi (1339)
Graphite on wove paper, p. 18 from the BS I sketchbook
5 1/8 x 8 1/4 in. (13 x 20.9 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 125, ill., p. 118.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: The Basel Sketchbooks, March 10–June 5, 1988, listed p. 149, ill. p. 124.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 108, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1339, ill. vol. II, as "Page XV".
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 48, cat. no. 203, ill. proposes Chapu's 'Bust of Alexandre Dumas' as the model.
Reff, Theodore. "Book Reviews: Cézanne und die alten Meister by Gertrude Berthold." The Art Bulletin, vol. 42, no. 2 (June 1960), p. 146 and p. 148, Appendix, cat. 203, proposes a 'Bust of Vespasian' (Louvre) as the model.
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. 192, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 1106, ill., as After a bust of a man.
Koepplin, Dieter. Paul Cézanne: Die Basler Zeichnungen. Basel: Kunstmuseum, 1988, no. 96, ill.
Italien, first half of the 16th century, Buste d'homme (pseudo-Vitellius), marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Photo: Jastrow
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Basel I, 1879–1900 (3011)
Sketchbook Basel I, 1879–1900 (3011)
The sheets in this sketchbook have been detached from the binding. Many have been trimmed so that there are slight variations in size. The "a" side is marked with Arabic numerals at the lower right.
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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 le buste d'un homme (Pseudo-Vitellius?), 1894–98 (FWN 3011-18a), p. 18 from the BS I sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2797 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
