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 3010-26bisa
D'après Michel-Ange: l'Esclave mourant
c.1900
Alternate titles: After Michelangelo: Dying Slave; After Michelangelo: Young Slave; Esclave mourant, d'après Michel-Ange; L'Esclave, dit L'Esclave mourant d'après Michel-Ange; Michelangelo's Dying Slave
Chappuis (1208)
Graphite on wove paper, p. XXVI bis, not paginated, from the EH II sketchbook
5 x 8 1/2 in. (12.7 x 21.6 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Musée du Louvre, Paris, Copier Créer: de Turner à Picasso: 300 œuvres inspirées par les maîtres du Louvre, April 26–July 26, 1993, no. 69, ill., as L'Esclave, dit L'Esclave mourant d'après Michel-Ange, lent by Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 185, ill. in color, p. 439, as Esclave mourant, d'après Michel-Ange, c. 1900, lent by Philadelphia MA, shown in Paris and London only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 74, ill.
Published References
Rewald, John. Cézanne: Carnets de Dessins, 2 vols. Paris: Quatre Chemins-Editart, 1951, C IV, p. XXVI bis, pl. 125.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 57, cat. no. 62, fig. 160, dated c. 1900.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne: The Enigma of the Nude." Art News 58, no. 8 (November 1959), p. 68, fig. 3.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 1208, ill., as After Michelangelo: Young Slave.
Shoemaker, Innis, and Theodore Reff. Paul Cézanne: Two Sketchbooks. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, p. 185 (Sketchbook II; page XXVI bis recto), ill., as Michelangelo's Dying Slave.
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, p. 145, fig. 40.
Simms, Matthew. "Cézanne, Drawing, and the Past." In Cézanne and the past : tradition and creativity [international symposium, Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, 28 January 2013]. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2017, fig. 1.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 86, fig. 3, as After Michelangelo: Dying Slave.
Michelangelo, Captif ("l'Esclave mourant") (Dying Slave), marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Related
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This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Philadelphia II, 1872–95 (3010)
Sketchbook Philadelphia II, 1872–95 (3010)
The front and back covers are of linen-covered board. Notation on back endpaper "LII x 2", indicating 52 recto and verso sheets. The pages are numbered in Roman numerals at the lower right corner of the recto ("a") in a soft blue-gray pencil. The sketchbook is unbound.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après Michel-Ange: l'Esclave mourant, c.1900 (FWN 3010-26bisa), p. XXVI bis, not paginated, from the EH II sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2903 (accessed on April 16, 2024).
