About This Artwork

Paul Cézanne
French, 1839-1906

Study for L'Autopsie, 1867/1869

Charcoal with stumping on tan laid paper
320 x 487 mm
Gift of Tiffany & Margaret Blake, 1947.36

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Cezanne, Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings," 1952, p. 18, cat. 8 (ill.); traveled to New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, cat. 107.

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. 33 (ill.).

Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, "Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection," February 27-March 28, 1971, p. 96, cat. 65 (ill.); traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, April 17-May 16, 1971; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1-July 3, 1971.

Kunsthalle Tübingen, "Paul Cézanne," October 14-December 31, 1978.

London, Royal Academy of Arts, "Cezanne: The Early Yeas, 1859-1872," April 22-August 21, 1988, p. 209, cat. 75 (ill.); traveled to the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, September 15-December 31, 1988, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., January 29-April 30, 1989.

Publication History

John Rewald, Paul Cézanne: A Biography (New York, 1948), pl. 13.

John Rewald, The Ordeal of Paul Cézanne (London, 1950), fig. 3.

Adrien Chappuis, Dessins de Paul Cézanne (Lausanne, 1957), p. 76-77, no. 3 (ill).

Alfred Neumeyer, Cézanne Drawings (New York, 1958), p. 36, no. 4 (ill.).

John Rewald, The History of Impressionism (New York, 1961), p. 63 (ill.).

Yvon Taillandier, P. Cézanne (New York, 1977), p. 14 (ill.).

Stephen Longstreet, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne (New York, 1964), p. 24 (ill.)

Richard W. Murphy, The World of Cézanne (New York, 1968), p. 24 (ill.).

Chiuji Ikegami, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne (Tokyo, 1970 ), p.132, no. 76 (ill.).

Adrien Chappuis, The Drawings Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné (New York, 1973), no. 110.

Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, 2 (Chicago, 1979), no. 1B11.

Galeries Nationales de Grand Palais, Cézanne (Paris, 1995), p. 281, fig. 2.

Ownership History

Possibly Auguste Pellerin (died 1929), Paris [Maynard Walker]. Mrs. Benny Goodman (née Alice Duckworth; died 1979) [Chappuis 1973]. Sold by the Maynard Walker Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1947.