Provenance

Paul Cézanne fils (1872-1947), Paris, by whom sold to

Paul Guillaume (1891-1934), Paris, by whom sold in 1933 to

Adrien Chappuis, Tresserve (Savoie), thence by descent to the

Chappuis-Barut Collection, Tresserve (sale: London, Christie’s, 26 June 2003, lot 327, illustrated [bt. Jan Krugier])

Jan Krugier (1928-2008) and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, Geneva

W. M. Brady & Co., New York, 2015

Private collection, New York

Exhibitions

Vienna, Albertina, Goya bis Picasso: Meisterwerke de Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2005, cat. no. 99, illustrated

Munich, Kunsthalle de Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Das Ewige Auge – Von Rembrandt bis Picasso: Meisterwerke der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2007, cat. no. 121, illustrated

New York, W. M. Brady & Co., Old Master and 19th-century Drawings, 1540-1890, January 27 to February 13, 2015, cat. no. 31, illustrated

Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Cézanne: Metamorphoses, October 2017 – February 2018, pp. 272, 274, cat. no. 77, illustrated

Literature

L. Venturi, Cézanne: son art et son oeuvre, Paris, 1936, cat. no. 1316, listed p. 312 (recto and verso)

A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1973, vol. I, cat. no. 1164; vol. II, cat. no. 1164, verso illustrated

J. Rewald, Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors: A Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1983, p. 130, cat. no. 189, pl. 189, recto illustrated

The recto executed circa 1885-90; the verso executed circa 1892-95. The recto of this sheet was page LII from the sketchbook CP IV; the verso, page LI.

PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK