PAUL CEZANNE (1839-1906)

Details
PAUL CEZANNE (1839-1906)

Femme debout (La musicienne; recto and verso)

black chalk and pencil on paper
9 1/8 x 5 7/8in. (23.1 x 15cm.)
Drawn 1866-1869
Provenance
Huguette Berès, Paris
Literature
A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne, London, 1917, vol. I, pp. 97-98, nos. 215 [verso] and 218 [recto] (illustrated, vol. II, nos. 215 and 218)

Lot Essay

Chappuis (op. cit.) erroneously catalogued the recto and verso images of the present work as being on two separate sheets. The recto shows a woman holding a conductor's baton. Viewed lengthwise, several studies emerge, but only the head of a bearded man, perhaps a pastiche after Ingres's Jupiter and Thetis (see Chappuis, no. 50), is decipherable. The female figure on the verso is related to Woman, Standing (Chappuis, no. 216) and this side of the sheet actually contains a faint counterproof image of the latter drawing.