The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
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Martin P. Bühler; © Kunstmuseum Basel - Martin P. Bühler
FWN 3011-05a
D'après l'antique: buste de l'empereur Septime Sévère
1896–99
Alternate titles: After the antique: Bust of the emperor Septimius Severus; Kaiser Septimius Severus; Studienkopf, wahrscheinlich nach einer antiken Büste
Chappuis (1136); Venturi (1328)
Graphite on wove paper, p. 5 from the BS I sketchbook
5 3/16 x 8 1/4 in. (13.1 x 21 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Meisterzeichnungen französischer Künstler von Ingres bis Cézanne, June 29–August 18, 1935, no. 197, as Studienkopf, wahrscheinlich nach einer antiken Büste, lent by Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel.
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 116, ill., p. 113.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: The Basel Sketchbooks, March 10–June 5, 1988, listed p. 149, ill. p. 134.
Glyptothek, Munich, Skulpturenzeichnungen, July 19–September 18, 1994, no. 20, ill.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 99, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1328, ill. vol. II, as "Page V".
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 30, cat. no. 50, fig. 22.
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. 181, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 1136, ill., as After the antique: Bust of the emperor Septimius Severus.
Koepplin, Dieter. Paul Cézanne: Die Basler Zeichnungen. Basel: Kunstmuseum, 1988, no. 111, ill.
Schmidt, Doris. "Die Macht der Mnemosyne." Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich), no. 170, Feuilleton (July 26, 1994).
Gloor, Lukas. "Ambroise Vollard in seinen Portraits." In Renoir, Cézanne, Picasso und ihr Galerist Ambroise Vollard, Gloor, Lukas, Koella, Rudolf, Velhagen, Rudolf. Heidelberg: Edition Braus im Wachter Verlag, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 92, as Kaiser Septimius Severus, 1896-97.
Roman, early 3rd century AD, L'empereur Septime Sévère (Bust of Septimus Severus), marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
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 l'antique: buste de l'empereur Septime Sévère, 1896–99 (FWN 3011-05a), p. 5 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=2828 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
