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This tan-colored, fabric-covered sketchbook cover is marked with a few smudges of dark gray and white paint. The binding is to the left in this photograph. The cover is wide and has a cream-colored rope wrapped around the narrower end to our right. The weave of the fabric is visible. A few swipes of gray paint are spaced along the binding, to our left, and there are tiny touches of white, lavender purple, and brick red marking the cover.

Paul Cézanne

Cézanne Sketchbook, c. 1877/1900

Not on View

Medium

sketchbook with 71 drawings in graphite, pen and brown ink, and watercolor; the sketchbook contains 46 sheets, several which are blank; the end papers, the recto of the first page, and half the verso of the final page were used for notes, lists, and arithmetical figuring; a draft of a letter to the critic Octave Mirbeau is on page II (recto)

Dimensions

page size: 15.2 x 23.7 cm (6 x 9 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Catalogue Raisonné

Chappuis 1973, no. 1149, State and others

Accession Number

1992.51.9.a-zz

Artists / Makers

Paul Cézanne (artist) French, 1839 - 1906

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Inscription

various notations overall

Provenance

Paul Cézanne (the artist's son), Paris; Paul Guillaume, Paris; Adrien Chappuis, Tresserve, Switzerland, 1933; Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA, 1967; gift to NGA, 1991

Associated Names

Chappuis, Adrien
Cézanne, Paul
Guillaume, Paul
Mellon, Paul

Exhibition History

1991: NGA Anniversary 1991, 176.

1999: An Enduring Legacy: Masterpieces from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999-2000.

2012: Cézanne and the Past. Tradition and Creativity, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 2012-2013, no. 27, repro.

2015: Victor Chocquet: Freund und Sammler der Impressionisten Renoir, Cézanne, Monet, Manet, Sammlung Oskar Reinhart "Am Römerholz", Winterthur, 2015, no. 32.