D'après Bartolomé Estéban Murillo: Niño espulgàndose

Details

Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
D'après Bartolomé Estéban Murillo: Niño espulgàndose
pencil on paper
7¾ x 4¾in. (19.5 x 12cm.)
Drawn circa 1882-1885

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

J. Rewald, 'Cézanne au Louvre', L'Amour de l'Art, 1935, p. 288, note 4.
L. Venturi, Cézanne, son art-son oeuvre, Paris, 1936, no. 1269, p. 304 (illustrated vol. II, pl. 348).
G. Berthold, Cézanne und die alten Meister, Stuttgart, 1958, no. 274 (illustrated pl. 113).
A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1973, vol. I, no. 606, p. 171 (illustrated vol. II, no. 606).
J. Rewald, Paul Cézanne. The Watercolours, London, 1983, p. 101 (illustrated).

Exhibited

Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, Cézanne, May-Oct. 1936, no. 159.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This sheet was page V from the sketchbook CP I.

Murillo's Niño espulgàndose (circa 1650), was one of the most celebrated paintings of the Louvre in the late 19th Century. This is Cézanne's only known pencil study after it.

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