Object Information
Paul Cézanne
French, 1839-1906
Mercury (after Pigalle), 1885/1895
Graphite on ivory wove paper (recto); graphite with touches of watercolor on ivory wove paper (verso)
485 x 314 mm (max.)
Margaret Day Blake Collection, 1965.14
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake," April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 35 (ill.).
Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, "Cezanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Phillips Collection," February 27-March 28, 1971, cat. 79; also traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, April 17-May 16, 1971; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1-July 3, 1971.
Urbana-Champaign, Ill., Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, "Drawings from the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23–May 14, 1972.
Palm Beach, Fla., Society of Four Arts, "Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," January 5–27, 1974, cat. 3.
Tübingen, Germany, Kunsthalle, "Paul Cézanne," October 14-December 31, 1978.
Dusseldorf, Germany, the Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, "Fifty Years Ago: Europe on the Eve of the Second World War," September 13-October 25, 1987.
Sydney, Australia, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, "The Classic Cézanne," November 21, 1998-February 14, 1999.
Publication History
Calendar of The Art Institute of Chicago (September 1965), (ill.).
Adrien Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: a catalogue raisonné (Greenwich, Conn., 1973), no. 972 bis (ill.).
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, 2 (Chicago, 1979), nos. 1C4 and 1C5.
Ownership History
Alfred Flechtheim (1877-1937), Berlin and Düsseldorf [Washington D.C. 1971]. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris [Washington D.C. 1971]. Sold by Dr. Otto Wertheimer, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1965.