Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)
Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)

Femme debout (recto); La Musicienne (verso)

Details
Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)
Femme debout (recto); La Musicienne (verso)
black chalk and pencil on paper
9 1/8 x 5 7/8 in. (23.1 x 15 cm.)
Drawn in 1866-1869
Provenance
Huguette Berès, Paris.
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 11 May 1995, lot 204.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owners.
Literature
A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1973, vol. I, pp. 97-98, nos. 215 (verso) and 218 (recto) (illustrated, vol. II, pls. 215 and 218).

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Lot Essay

Adrien Chappuis (op. cit.) erroneously catalogued the recto and verso images of the present work as being on two separate sheets. The recto shows a woman holding a conductor's baton. Viewed lengthwise, several studies emerge, but only the head of a bearded man, perhaps a pastiche after Ingres's Jupiter et Thétis (see Chappuis, no. 50), is decipherable. The female figure on the verso is related to another standing figure (Chappuis, no. 216) and this side of the sheet contains a faint counterproof image of the latter drawing.

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