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 3011-33b
D'après Girardon: Boileau-Despréaux
c.1900
Alternate titles: After Girardon: Boileau-Despréaux; Studie nach Girardon: Boileau-Despréaux
Chappuis (1212); Venturi (1355)
Graphite on wove paper, p. 33 verso from the BS I sketchbook
5 1/16 x 8 1/8 in. (12.9 x 20.6 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September 19–November 4, 1973, no. 88, ill. in b/w, catalogue note: p. 169, as After Girardon: Boileau-Despréaux, lent by Kunstmuseum Basel. Traveled to: Hayward Gallery, London, November 13–December 30, 1973.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 197, ill. p. 303, as Studie nach Girardon: Boileau-Despréaux, c. 1900, lent by Kunstmuseum Basel.
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 137, 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. 133.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 117, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1355, ill. vol. II, as "Page XXIX".
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, pp. 26, 30, 56, cat. no. 185, fig. 18.
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. 206, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 1212, ill., as After Girardon: Boileau-Despréaux.
Koepplin, Dieter. Paul Cézanne: Die Basler Zeichnungen. Basel: Kunstmuseum, 1988, no. 109, ill.
François Girardon, Nicolas Boileau, known as Despréaux, marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Photo: Stéphane Maréchalle; © RMN-Grand Palais
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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 Girardon: Boileau-Despréaux, c.1900 (FWN 3011-33b), p. 33 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=2908 (accessed on April 26, 2024).
