Inv. n°: MMoCA98MA

D'après l'Antique: Vénus de Milo (recto); On the verso: Étude de nuages

h. 21.5 x w. 12.2 cm

c. 1872-1873

Pencil on paper

Provenance

  • Paul Cézanne's son, 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, Chambery
  • Christie’s London, Property from the Chappuis-Barut Collection, London, 26th June 2003, lot 330 (part)
  • Anonymous sale, Christie’s, London, 9th February 2006, lot 550
  • Acquired at Christie’s London, Impressionist and Modern, London, 10th February 2011, lot 262

Publications

  • K. Pfister, Cézanne, Potsdam, 1927, p. 31 (recto illustrated)
  • L. Venturi, Cézanne, son art, son oeuvre, Paris, 1936, no. 1296, p. 308 (recto illustrated vol. II, pl. 352)
  • G. Berthold, Cézanne und die alten Meister, Stuttgart, 1958, vol. I, no. 12 (recto illustrated)
  • A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne. A Catalogue raisonné., London, 1973, vol. I, no. 308, p. 114 (recto); no. 888, p. 215 (verso) (both illustrated vol. II)
  • D. Marchesseau, Paul Cézanne, le chant de la terre, Fondation Pierre-Gianadda, 1986, p. 123
  • Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper: Properties from the Chappuis-Barut Collection, Christie’s London, 26th June 2003, lot 330 (part)
  • Christie’s London, Christie’s London, 9th February 2006, lot 550
  • Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper, Christie’s London, 10th February 2011, lot 262
  • "Christian Levett 'Mougins a une histoire artistique'", Nice Matin, 30th April 2013, p. 11
  • Franck Leclerc, "Mougins rend hommage à Sacha Sosno", Nice Matin, 7th May 2014, p. 39
  • M. Simms, "Cézanne, Drawing, and the Past", Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, Museum of Fine Arts, 2017, fig. 2
  • W. Feilchenfeldt, W. Jayne and D. Nash, "D'après l'antique: Vénus de Milo, c.1872–73 (FWN 3008-47a).", The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné, 2019, [on-line] available at: https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1964
  • D. Gouaty, "A Mougins, le musée d'art classique fête ses 10 ans", Nice Matin, France, 14th August 2021, p. 14
  • R. Leung, "From 4th-Century Greek Vases to Female Abstract Expressionism", Larry's List, 2022, [On-line]. Available at: https://www.larryslist.com/artmarket/the-talks/from-4th-century-greek-vases-to-female-abstract-expressionism/

Exhibitions

  • Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from 2011
  • Cézanne. Le chant de la Terre, Fondation Pierre-Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, 16th June 2017 — 19th November 2017

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