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Catalogue entry

FWN 2292
Etudes avec Paul Cezanne fils et bougeoir
c.1879
Alternate title: Études
Venturi (1484): 1879–82
Graphite on laid paper
5 11/16 x 8 7/8 in. (14.5 x 22.5 cm)
Private collection

Keywords

Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Paul Guillaume, Paris
Kenneth Clark, London (1934)
Galerie Motte, Geneva, Nov. 23, 1957, no. 113
Private collection
Exhibition History
2021a New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 59, Private collection.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1484, ill. vol. II, as Études.
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, cat. no. 259.
Andersen 1970
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 128, ill. dated 1879–81.
Notes

The male nude seen from behind is taken from Michelangelo's The Battle of Cascina.

Etudes avec Paul Cezanne fils et bougeoir, c.1879 (FWN 2292). Marcantonio Raimondi, Trois figures d'hommes tirées du carton de la Guerre de Pise [La bataille de Cascina] de Michel-Ange, engraving, Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Marcantonio Raimondi, Trois figures d'hommes tirées du carton de la Guerre de Pise [La bataille de Cascina] de Michel-Ange, engraving, Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Photo: © Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France

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Record last updated January 18, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Etudes avec Paul Cezanne fils et bougeoir, c.1879 (FWN 2292)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=3241 (accessed on May 3, 2025).