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 690
L'Ecorché de Michel-Ange
c.1892
Alternate titles: L'Écorché; Le Dit "Écorché" de Michel-Ange; Le soi-disant "Écorché" de Michel-Ange; Statue
Rewald (785): c.1892; Venturi revised: c.1895; Venturi (709): c.1895; Gowing: c.1892 (Edinburgh); Reff: c.1892
Oil on canvas
13 13/16 x 6 1/2 in. (35 x 16.5 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3356, peinture à l'huile representant l'écorché de Michelange sur un fond gris, 35 x 16 cm (25 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 200 and 275, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1888
Private collection, New York
Provenance
Private collection, New York
Exhibition History
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 48, as Le soi-disant "Écorché" de Michel-Ange, c. 1895, lent by Alphonse Kann, St. Germain-en-Laye.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 49, as Le soi-disant "Écorché" de Michel-Ange, lent by Peter Pitt-Millward. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway, Paul Cezanne: 28 malerier, November 13–December 1, 1954, no. 21, as Le soi-disant "Écorché" de Michel-Ange, lent by Peter Pitt-Millward.
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 66, ill.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 233, Private collection, New York.
Published References
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, p. 65, pl. p. 64, as L'Écorché.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 144.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, p. 107, pl. [18] hors texte, as L'Écorché.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 709, ill. vol. II, as Le soi-disant "Écorché" de Michel-Ange.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, listed p. 154.
Reff, Theodore. "The Pictures within Cézanne's Pictures." Arts Magazine 53, no. 10 (June 1979), fig. 33.
Gasquet, Joachim. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne. Translated by C. Pemberton. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991, p. 127, ill.
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 785, ill. vol. 2, as Le Dit "Écorché" de Michel-Ange.
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 125, ill.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 52, ill., as Statue.
Anonymous after Michelango (attributed), Écorché, dit de Michel-Ange, 16th century, plaster cast, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris. Cezanne had a modern reproduction in his Les Lauves studio.
Photo: Jean-Michel Lapelerie; © École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts
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Record last updated April 28, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Ecorché de Michel-Ange, c.1892 (FWN 690)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=762 (accessed on December 11, 2024).
