D'après Caravage: Mise au tombeau

Details

Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
D'après Caravage: Mise au tombeau
pencil on tracing paper
6 1/8 x 5 3/8in. (15.5 x 13.6cm.)
Drawn circa 1877-1880

Provenance

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

Literature

G. Berthold, Cézanne und die alten Meister, Stuttgart, 1958, no. 270 (illustrated pl. 95).
A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1973, vol. I, no. 468, p. 143 (illustrated vol. II, no. 468).
J. Rewald, Paul Cézanne. The Watercolours, London, 1983, p. 207 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

This drawing was traced by Cézanne from an engraving by Paquet. Paquet had based his engraving on a drawing by Bourdon reproducing Caravaggio's Deposizione (1602-1604), in the Pinacoteca Vaticana.

There is a watercolour of the same subject (RWC 492) executed circa 1900. 'As Neumeyer stated: "Nobody but Cézanne amongst his contemporaries would have shown an interest in this Baroque master"... "When", as Roberto Longhi observed, "Cézanne makes a copy for his own edification, he illuminates, after three hundred years, with incredible intelligence the quintessential, abstract, metaphysical appearance of the Caravaggesque model"' (quoted by J. Rewald, op. cit).

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