Catalogue entry

FWN 3005-05a

D'après l'antique: buste d'empereur romain

1896–99

Alternate titles: Bust of a Roman emperor; Lucius Verus

Chappuis (1137); Venturi (1362); Other: after 1900

Graphite on wove paper, p. V from the BS II sketchbook

4 7/8 x 7 15/16 in. (12.4 x 20.1 cm)

Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett

Keywords

Studies
Details:
- head or bust / tête ou buste »

Provenance

Paul Cézanne fils, Paris

Paul Guillaume, Paris

Werner Feuz, Bern

Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett (1935)

Exhibition History

1979 Rome

Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 139a, p. 129.

1994 Munich

Glyptothek, Munich, Skulpturenzeichnungen, July 19–September 18, 1994, no. 21, ill., as Lucius Verus.

2017 Basel

Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 120, ill.

Published References

Venturi 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1362, ill. vol. II, as "Page IV".

Berthold 1958

Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, cat. no. 51, ill.

Chappuis 1962

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. 180, ill.

Chappuis 1973

Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 1137, ill., as Bust of a Roman emperor.

Notes

Chappuis suggests that proabably the bust of Septimius Severus or another of Lucius Verus could have served as a model for this study, though the question remains controversial.

Romann, between 180 and 183 AD, Bust of Lucius Verus, marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.

D'après l'antique: buste d'empereur romain, 1896–99 (FWN 3005-05a). Roman, early 3rd century AD, L'empereur Septime Sévère (Bust of Septimus Severus), marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Roman, early 3rd century AD, L'empereur Septime Sévère (Bust of Septimus Severus), marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Related work

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 d'empereur romain, 1896–99 (FWN 3005-05a), p. V 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=2829 (accessed on May 1, 2025).