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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2003.40.5
People
Paul Cézanne, French (Aix-en-Provence 1839 - 1906 Aix-en-Provence)
Title
Portrait of a Man (Emile Zola?); verso: Study of an Armchair and Sketch of the Head of Louis-Auguste Cézanne
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1882-1883
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/98996

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions
21.8 x 12.4 cm (8 9/16 x 4 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, upper right, graphite: XI (written vertically)
  • inscription: lower right, graphite: 3
  • label: formerly back of frame, black ink: PORTRAIT of EMILE ZOLA reproduced in Cézanne's Portrait Drawings / by Wayne Andersen / on page 215 / with wrong description / CORRECT DESCRIPTION / on Page 216
  • label: formerly back of frame, black ink: TÊTE DE PAYSAN reproduced in Dessins de Paul Cézanne / by Adrien Chappuis Plate #40 / VERSO: three studies: one in upper left hand corner / a study of an armchair in the center and / a study of a cap on the head of a man / (probably the father of Cézanne--Louis-August Cézanne)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris.
Paul Guillaume, Paris.
Adrien Chappuis, Tresserve (Savoie).
O. Wertheimer, Paris.
Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York.
Harold and Mary Gershinowitz, New York, Gift to HUAM, 2002.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Mary Gershinowitz
Accession Year
2003
Object Number
2003.40.5
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Sketchbook page
Commentary
From the same sketchbook (Chappuis II) as Fogg drawing 1962.24.

Publication History

  • Lionello Venturi, Cézanne, son art, son oeuvre, P. Rosenberg (Paris, 1936), cat. no. 1284, Deuxième carnet p. XI (verso) and XIv (recto)
  • Adrien Chappuis, Dessins de Paul Cézanne, Editions des Chroniques du Jour (Paris, France, 1938), no. 40, recto repr.
  • Theodore Reff, "Studies in Cézanne's Drawings" (Harvard University, 1956), Unpublished, p. 84
  • Wayne V. Anderson, Cézanne's Portrait Drawings, MIT Press (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 1970), pp. 26, 28; cat. no. 239, repr. p. 215 (caption switched with no. 238)
  • Adrien Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York Graphic Society Ltd. (Greenwich, CT, 1973), cat. nos. 621 (recto), 622 (verso), recto repr.

Exhibition History

  • Under Cover: Artists' Sketchbooks, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2006 - 10/22/2006

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