D'après l'antique: Vénus de Milo (recto); Paysage provençal (verso)

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Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
D'après l'antique: Vénus de Milo (recto); Paysage provençal (verso)
pencil on paper (recto and verso)
8½ x 4¾ in. (21.5 x 12.2 cm.)
Drawn circa 1872-1873 (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, 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 owner.

Literature

L. Venturi, Cézanne, son art-son oeuvre, vol. I, Paris, 1936, no. 1292, p. 308 (recto and verso) (recto illustrated vol. II pl. 351).
G. Berthold, Cézanne und die alten Meister, Stuttgart, 1958, no. 10 (recto illustrated pl. 85).
A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, London, 1973, no. 307, p. 114 (recto); no. 877, p. 213 (verso) (illustrated vol. II, nos 307 and 877).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The recto of this study shows the Vénus de Milo from its familiar frontal viewpoint. The verso depicts a view of the countryside surrounding Aix-en-Provence, similar to that seen in the watercolours (Rewald nos. 77 and 78), dated around the same year as this drawing.

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