Paul Cézanne and François Puget
Sketch after Puget’s “Milo of Croton”
1884-1894
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Graphite, Sheet: 478 x 314 mm. (18 13/16 x 12 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, Bequest of Frederic W. Cone
Object Number
1950.12.657
Nude male with lion biting his buttocks.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore, by bequest, 1944; Frederic Cone; Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne; Galerie Thannhauser, Lucerne, before 1936 [per Venturi]; Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
Lorenz Eitner, University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 'The Nineteenth Century: 125 Master Drawings', Mar. 26-Apr. 23, 1962, no. 13, not illustrated; circulated to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, May 10-June 30, 1962.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., 'Cézanne', Feb. 27-Mar. 28, 1971, p. 109, no. 82; circulated to Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 17-May 16; and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1-July 3, 1971.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Prints and Drawings from The Baltimore Museum of Art', loan exhibition circulated to Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, Nov. 2-Dec. 2, 1973; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Jan. 17-Feb. 17, 1974; and Ackland Art Center, Chapel Hill, NC, April 2-21, 1974.
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.
BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Master Drawings by French Artists in the Museum's Collection', May 14-July 23, 1989.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from The Cone Collection," 7 June - 27 August, 1995.
Jay Fisher, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, 17 November, 1996 - 19 January, 1997; Seattle Art Museum 20 February - 20 April, 1997; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 18 May - 13 July, 1997.
Jay Fisher, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, 17 November, 1996 - 19 January, 1997; Seattle Art Museum 20 February - 20 April, 1997; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 18 May - 13 July, 1997.
Jay Fisher, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, 17 November, 1996 - 19 January, 1997; Seattle Art Museum 20 February - 20 April, 1997; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 18 May - 13 July, 1997.
Terence Maloon, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 'The Classic Cézanne', Nov. 28, 1998-Feb. 28, 1999, p. 183, no. 57, ill.
Jay McKean Fisher, William R. Johnston and Cheryl K. Snay, 'The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas,' organized by The Walters Art Museum and The Baltimore Museum of Art, circulated to The Walters Art Museum June 19, 2005 - September 11, 2005, The Birmingham Museum of Art February 9, 2006 - May 4, 2006, Tacoma Art Museum June 9, 2006 - September 7, 2006.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Cezanne: The Drawings" June 6, 2021 - September 26, 2021.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., 'Cézanne', Feb. 27-Mar. 28, 1971, p. 109, no. 82; circulated to Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 17-May 16; and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1-July 3, 1971.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Prints and Drawings from The Baltimore Museum of Art', loan exhibition circulated to Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, Nov. 2-Dec. 2, 1973; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Jan. 17-Feb. 17, 1974; and Ackland Art Center, Chapel Hill, NC, April 2-21, 1974.
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.
BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Master Drawings by French Artists in the Museum's Collection', May 14-July 23, 1989.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from The Cone Collection," 7 June - 27 August, 1995.
Jay Fisher, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, 17 November, 1996 - 19 January, 1997; Seattle Art Museum 20 February - 20 April, 1997; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 18 May - 13 July, 1997.
Jay Fisher, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, 17 November, 1996 - 19 January, 1997; Seattle Art Museum 20 February - 20 April, 1997; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 18 May - 13 July, 1997.
Jay Fisher, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, 17 November, 1996 - 19 January, 1997; Seattle Art Museum 20 February - 20 April, 1997; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 18 May - 13 July, 1997.
Terence Maloon, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 'The Classic Cézanne', Nov. 28, 1998-Feb. 28, 1999, p. 183, no. 57, ill.
Jay McKean Fisher, William R. Johnston and Cheryl K. Snay, 'The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas,' organized by The Walters Art Museum and The Baltimore Museum of Art, circulated to The Walters Art Museum June 19, 2005 - September 11, 2005, The Birmingham Museum of Art February 9, 2006 - May 4, 2006, Tacoma Art Museum June 9, 2006 - September 7, 2006.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Cezanne: The Drawings" June 6, 2021 - September 26, 2021.
Hauptman, Jodi and Samantha Friedman (eds). Cézanne Drawing. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2021 (second printing), p. 101, ill.
Stavitsky, Gail, and Katherine Rothkopf, eds. Cézanne and American Modernism. Montclair, NJ: Montclair Art Museum; Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art; New Haven, [CT]: in association with Yale University Press, 2009, fig. 6, page 97.
Kosinski, Dorothy, Jay McKean Fisher, and Steven Nash. Matisse: Painter as Sculptor. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art; Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Art: Nasher Sculpture Center; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, page 32, fig. 31
Fisher, Jay McKean, et al. The Essence of Line: French drawings from Ingres to Degas. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005, p.152-53, ill.
The International Review published by The Drawing Society, Vol. XVII, No.1, May - June 1995, p.4, ill.
Adrien Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne, Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1975, no. 976.
Clisby, Roger D. 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings from the Baltimore Museum of Art: Catalogue [of an exhibition held at the E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, November 3 - December 2, 1973, Honolulu Academy of Arts, January 18 - February 17, 1974, and William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, April 2 - April 21, 1974]. [Sacramento, CA]: E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, 1973, cat. no. 7, unpaged.
Gertrude Berthold, Cézanne und die alten meister, Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 90, no. 98.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings in the Cone Collection, 1955, p. 19 (revised edition 1967, p. 72, no. 175, ill. p. 60).
Paul Sachs, Modern Prints and Drawings, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954, Plate 30, p. 40.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'From Ingres to Gauguin', Nov.-Dec. 1951, p. 41, no. 148, ill. p. 41.
G. G. Görlich, Cézanne: 76 Disegni, Milan: Görlich, 1944, no. 23. Robert Rey, La Renaissance du sentiment classique, Paris: Les Beaux-Arts, n.d. [c. 1931], plate 1, p. 84.
J. Meier-Graefe, Cézanne und sein Kreis, Munich: Piper Verlag, 1922, p. 142. Joachim Gasquet, Cézanne, Paris: Bernheim Jeune, 1921, p. 114 (revised 1926, p. 190).
Inscribed: None.
Markings: (Pale blue ink stamp, 'CONE', lost in aqueous conservation treatment, 1979. [see notes])
