D'après Guillaume Coustou: Nicolas Coustou

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Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
D'après Guillaume Coustou: Nicolas Coustou
pencil on paper
8½ x 4¾ in. (21.5 x 12.2 cm.)
Drawn circa 1895-1898

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, and thence by descent to the Barut family, Chembéry; sale, Christie's London, 26 June 2003, lot 330.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owners.

Literature

J. Rewald, 'Cézanne au Louvre', in L'Amour de l'Art, October 1935, p. 286 (illustrated).
L. Venturi, Cézanne, son art-son oeuvre, vol. I, Paris, 1936, no. 1289, p. 307 (illustrated vol. II pl. 351).
G. Berthold, Cézanne und die alten Meister, Stuttgart, 1958, no. 196 (illustrated).
A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, London, 1973, no. 1120, p. 256 (illustrated vol. II no. 1120).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This carefully modelled study was drawn after a terracotta bust by Guillaume Coustou le père (1677-1746) of his brother Nicolas, in the Louvre.

(fig. 1) Guillaume Coustou, Nicolas Coustou, Musée du Louvre, Paris
© Photo RMN - Hervé Lewandowski

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