2005.143: Female Figure Ornamenting a Clock; verso: Fragmentary Figure Studies

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2005.143

People

Paul Cézanne, French (Aix-en-Provence 1839 - 1906 Aix-en-Provence)

Title

Female Figure Ornamenting a Clock; verso: Fragmentary Figure Studies

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1877-1880

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/19200

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper, laid down

Dimensions

15.55 x 11.8 cm (6 1/8 x 4 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso of mount, brown ink: Le Dessin ci contre est une / oeuvre originale de mon Grand-père / Paul Cézanne. Paris 19 Septembre 1955 / Jean Pierre Cézanne

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Ambroise Vollard, Paris]. [New Gallery, New York]. Richard B. Sisson, New York (by 1965); bequest to Harvard University Art Museums, 2005

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Richard B. Sisson and through the generosity of Anthony and Celeste Meier

Accession Year

2005

Object Number

2005.143

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Gertrude Berthold, Cézanne und die alten Meister: Die Bedeutung der Zeichnungen Cézannes nach Werken anderer Künstler, W. Kohlhammer (Stuttgart, 1958), no. 327, repr.
• Collecting Privately, exh. cat., Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Brunswick, Maine, 1965), cat. no. 14
• Adrien Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York Graphic Society Ltd. (Greenwich, CT, 1973), cat. no. 579, repr.

Exhibition History

• Collecting Privately, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, 07/02/1965 - 09/05/1965

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