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 3005-50a
D'après Rubens: Bellone
1896–99
Alternate titles: After Rubens: Bellona; Bellone; Bellone d'après Rubens; Bellone, d'après Rubens; Figur der Bellona (nach Rubes)
Chappuis (1140); Venturi (1392)
Graphite on wove paper, p. L from the BS II sketchbook
4 13/16 x 8 1/4 in. (12.2 x 20.9 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany, Wegbereiter der modernen Malerei: Cézanne, Gauguin, van Gogh, Seurat, May 4–July 14, 1963, no. 33, as Figur der Bellona (nach Rubes), c. 1900, lent by Kunstmuseum, Basel.
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September 19–November 4, 1973, no. 78, ill. in b/w, catalogue note: p. 167, as After Rubens: Bellona, lent by Kunstmuseum Basel. Traveled to: Hayward Gallery, London, November 13–December 30, 1973.
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 78, ill., p. 84-85.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: The Basel Sketchbooks, March 10–June 5, 1988, listed p. 149, ill. p. 131.
Musée du Louvre, Paris, Copier Créer: de Turner à Picasso: 300 œuvres inspirées par les maîtres du Louvre, April 26–July 26, 1993, no. 57, ill., as Bellone d'après Rubens, lent by Kunstmuseum Basel.
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne et Paris, October 12, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 11, ill., p. 27, as Bellone, c. 1885-1895, lent by Kunstmuseum Basel.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 135, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1392, ill. vol. II, as "Page L".
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, pp. 14, 18-20, 56-57, cat. no. 212, fig. 5.
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. 201, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 1140, ill., as After Rubens: Bellona.
Wadley, Nicholas. "Cézanne Water-colours and Drawings at the Hayward Gallery." The Burlington Magazine 115, no. 849 (December 1973), p. 831.
Koepplin, Dieter. Paul Cézanne: Die Basler Zeichnungen. Basel: Kunstmuseum, 1988, no. 107, ill.
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 596, no. 1422, ill. in color, as Bellone, d'après Rubens, 1896-1899.
Eiling, Alexander, Anett Göthe, Astrid Reuter, Bettina Kaufmann, Eva-Maria Höllerer, Juliane Betz and Julia Lachenmann. "Catalog." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 209 fig. 2.
Peter Paul Rubens, L'apothéose de Henri IV et la proclamation de la régence de Marie de Médicis, le 14 mai 1610 (The Death of Henry IV and the Proclamation of the Regency) from the Medici cycle, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Photo: Erich Lessing; © Musée du Louvre
Related work
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Basel II, 1880–83, after 1900 (3005)
Sketchbook Basel II, 1880–83, after 1900 (3005)
This sketchbook originally contained at least fifty-two sheets, but was disbanded and dispersed in the 1930s. The Kunstmuseum Basel holds the largest group.
The sheets are numbered in Roman numerals at lower right on the "a" side.
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Record last updated June 5, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après Rubens: Bellone, 1896–99 (FWN 3005-50a), p. L 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=2832&sketchbook=3005 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
