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 3018-11a
D'après Houdon: l'Ecorché
1894–98
Alternate titles: After Houdon: L'Ecorché; Anatomical Figure; Etude d'après l'"Ecorché" de Houdon; L'Écorché de Houdon; Study after Houdon's "Ecorché"
Chappuis (1111); Venturi (1452): 1888–95
Graphite on wove paper, p. XXI from the CP IV sketchbook
8 1/4 x 10 11/16 in. (21 x 27.2 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cubism and Abstract Art, March 2–April 19, 1936, no. 39, fig. 28, as Anatomical Figure, dated c. 1900.
Detroit Institute of Arts, The Russel A. Alger House, Grosse Pointe, Michigan, Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawings: from the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University and the Museum of Modern Art of New York City, May 1–June 1, 1941, no. 1.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Modern Drawings, February 16–May 10, 1944, ill., p. 27, as Study after Houdon's "Ecorché", dated c. 1895, lent by Museum of Modern Art.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 85, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1452, ill. vol. II.
Barr, Jr., Alfred H. Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1942, p. 30, no. 99b, as Anatomical Figure.
Shoolman, Regina, and Charles Slatkin. Six Centuries of French Master Drawings in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1950, p. 190, pl. 107, as Anatomical Figure, c. 1888-95.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, cat. no. 167, ill.
Neumeyer, Alfred. Cézanne's Drawings. New York and London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1958, no. 25, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 1111, ill., as After Houdon: L'Ecorché.
Ilatovskaya, Tatiana. Les dessins retrouvés: chefs-d’oeuvre de collections allemandes d’avant-guerre. Paris: La Martinière, 1996. Exhibition catalogue, p. 161, fig. 2, as Etude d'après l'"Ecorché" de Houdon.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 304, no. 220, ill. 1892-94.
Modern study of Jean-Antoine Houdon's Ecorché by Avishek Banerjee.
Photo: © Avishek Banerjee
Related work
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Chappuis IV (CP IV), 1881; 1884–1900 (3018)
Sketchbook Chappuis IV (CP IV), 1881; 1884–1900 (3018)
The individual sheets in this sketchbook have been widely dispersed. Each page is numbered in Roman numerals.
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Record last updated February 22, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après Houdon: l'Ecorché, 1894–98 (FWN 3018-11a), p. XXI from the CP IV sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2802 (accessed on March 24, 2025).
