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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

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Prince de Wagram (Alexandre Berthier), Paris (Nov. 12, 1906)
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (with Paul Cassirer in 1910 and returned)
Alphonse Kann, Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Peter Pitt-Millward, London
Sotheby's, London, May 6, 1959, no. 73, ill.
Ian Woodner [Andrea Corp.], New York
Private collection, New York
Exhibition History
1936 Basel
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.
1954 Edinburgh and traveling
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.
1954 Oslo
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.
2017–18 Karlsruhe
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 66, ill.
2021a New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 233, Private collection, New York.
Published References
Gasquet 1921b
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, p. 65, pl. p. 64, as L'Écorché.
Meier-Graefe 1922
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 144.
Arishima 1925
Arishima, Ikuma. Sezannu [Cézanne]. Tokyo: Ars, 1925, pl. 29.
Gasquet 1926
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, p. 107, pl. [18] hors texte, as L'Écorché.
Venturi 1936b
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 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, listed p. 154.
Reff 1979b
Reff, Theodore. "The Pictures within Cézanne's Pictures." Arts Magazine 53, no. 10 (June 1979), fig. 33.
Gasquet 1991
Gasquet, Joachim. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne. Translated by C. Pemberton. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991, p. 127, ill.
Rewald 1996
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 2017
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 125, ill.
Dauberville 2020
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.
L'Ecorché de Michel-Ange, c.1892 (FWN 690). 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.
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 April 25, 2024).