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 3012-01b
Etude pour La Tentation de saint Antoine
c.1874
Alternate titles: Die Versuchung des heiligen Antonius; La Tentation de Saint-Antoine; Studie für: Die Versuchung des Hl. Antonius; Study for The Temptation of St. Anthony
Venturi (1214): 1872–75; Chappuis (448): 1873–75
Graphite on wove paper, p. III verso from the 13.3 x 21.1 sketchbook
5 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. (13.3 x 21 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 23, ill. p. 115, as Studie für: Die Versuchung des Hl. Antonius, 1873-1875, lent by Nationalgalerie Berlin.
Nationalgalerie Berlin, Berlin, Cézanne in Berlin. 28 Werke aus den Staatlichen Museen und aus Privatbesitz, October 6, 2000–January 14, 2001, no. 4, ill.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Bordell und Boudoir. Schauplätze der Moderne: Cézanne, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, January 22–May 22, 2005, no. 16, ill. p. 79, as Die Versuchung des heiligen Antonius, 1873-74.
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 11a, ill.
Published References
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 112.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1214, ill. vol. II, as La Tentation de Saint-Antoine.
Reff, Theodore. "Book Reviews: Cézanne und die alten Meister by Gertrude Berthold." The Art Bulletin, vol. 42, no. 2 (June 1960), p. 146.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne, Flaubert, St. Anthony, and the Queen of Sheba." The Art Bulletin 44, no. 2 (June 1962), p. 113, fig. 5.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 448, ill., as Study for The Temptation of St. Anthony.
Ballas, Guila. "Daumier, Corot, Papety, et Delacroix, inspirateurs de Cézanne." Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français (1974), pp. 197 and 199, ill. in b/w fig. 10 p. 196, as Etude pour La Tentation de saint Antoine, 1873-1875.
Gasquet, Joachim. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne. Translated by C. Pemberton. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991, p. 51, ill.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 309, no. 255, ill. 1873-75.
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 270, ill.
Ruppen, Fabienne. "Reassembling Cézanne: Material Evidence for a New Sketchbook." Master Drawings, vol. 55, no. 2 (Summer 2017), fig. 1 and fig. 14 (detail of standing female figure).
Related work
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Fragment (13.3 x 21.1), 1866–95 (3012)
Sketchbook Fragment (13.3 x 21.1), 1866–95 (3012)
These individual sheets may come from different early sketchbooks, but are combined here because of their similar size.
The FWN numbers have been randomly assigned and are listed here as individual pages rather than as a sketchbook spread.
Browse complete sketchbookRecord last updated February 10, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Etude pour La Tentation de saint Antoine, c.1874 (FWN 3012-01b), p. III verso from the 13.3 x 21.1 sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2984 (accessed on April 20, 2024).
