Vénus et Amours (recto); D'après l'antique: Diane Chasseresse (verso)

Details

Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
Vénus et Amours (recto); D'après l'antique: Diane Chasseresse (verso)
pencil on paper (recto and verso)
4¾ x 7¾in. (12 x 19.5cm.)
Drawn circa 1887-1890 (recto); drawn circa 1882-1885 (verso)

Provenance

Paul Cézanne fils, Paris.
Acquired from the above by Paul Guillaume, Paris.
Acquired from the estate of the above by Adrien Chappuis, Tresserve, in 1934.
By descent from the above to the present owner.

Literature

L. Venturi, Cézanne, son art-son oeuvre, Paris, 1936, no. 1271, p. 305 (recto and verso) (verso illustrated vol. II, p. 305, pl. 348).
A. Chappuis, Dessins de Paul Cézanne, Paris, 1938, no. 6 (recto illustrated).
G. Berthold, Cézanne und die alten Meister, Stuttgart, 1958, no. 27 (verso illustrated pl. 110).
J. Rewald, 'Cézanne au Louvre', in L'Amour de l'Art, October 1935, p. 288.
T. Reff, 'Cézanne, Flaubert, St. Anthony, and the Queen of Sheba', in The Art Bulletin, June 1962, p. 113 (recto).
A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1973, vol. I, no. 967, p. 225 (recto); no. 604, p. 171 (verso) (illustrated vol. II, nos. 967 and 604).
J. Rewald, Cézanne. A Biography, New York, 1986 (verso illustrated p. 229).

Exhibited

Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, Cézanne, May-Oct. 1936, no. 146.
Lyons, Musée de Lyon, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, 1939, no. 60.
London, Wildenstein Galleries, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 80.
Aix-en-Provence, Pavillon de Vendôme, Cézanne, tableaux, aquarelles, dessins, July-August 1961, no. 54.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The verso of this sheet was page XV from the sketchbook CP I.

The verso is after a replica of the IV Century B.C. marble in the Louvre Diane de Versailles, also known as Diane chasseresse. From the trees and branches surrounding Diane in this drawing, Chappuis deduced that it was probably done from the replica in the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris (op. cit., 1973).

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