The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
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FWN 3011-21b
D'après l'antique: Titus
c.1900
Alternate titles: After the antique: Titus; D'après le buste de l'empereur Titus; Tete de Titus, d'après l'antique
Chappuis (1205); Venturi (1343)
Graphite on wove paper, p. 21 verso from the BS I sketchbook
5 3/16 x 8 1/4 in. (13.1 x 21 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 128, ill., as D'après le buste de l'empereur Titus, c. 1900, lent by Kupferstichkabinett Basel. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 136, ill., p. 127.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: The Basel Sketchbooks, March 10–June 5, 1988, listed p. 149, ill. p. 135.
Glyptothek, Munich, Skulpturenzeichnungen, July 19–September 18, 1994, no. 19, ill. 1894-98.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 109, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1343, ill. vol. II, as D'après l'antique: Titus, as "Page XVIII".
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 56, cat. no. 57, fig. 158.
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. 205, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 1205, ill., as After the antique: Titus.
Koepplin, Dieter. Paul Cézanne: Die Basler Zeichnungen. Basel: Kunstmuseum, 1988, no. 112, ill.
Notes
It is more likely that this drawing was executed after a different bust from the one suggested by Chappuis, p. 270, fig. 162 (Ma 1032); see Additional Materials.
Titus, marble (head) and plaster (buste), Musée du Louvre, Paris (Ma 1258).
Photo: © Musée du Louvre (distr. RMN-Grand Palais) / Christian Larrieu
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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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après l'antique: Titus, c.1900 (FWN 3011-21b), p. 21 verso 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=2900&sketchbook=3011 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
