Paul Cézanne fils, Paris (the artist's son)
Paul Guillaume, Paris (acquired from the above)
Adrien Chappuis, Tresserve (acquired from the estate of the above by in 1934)
Chappuis-Barut Collection (by descent from the above; sale: Christie's, London, 26th June 2003, lot 316)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, Cézanne, 1936, no. 146
Lyons, Musée de Lyon, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, 1939, no. 60
London, Wildenstein Galleries, Homage to Paul Cézanne, 1939, no. 80
Aix-en-Provence, Pavillon de Vendôme, Cézanne, tableaux, aquarelles, dessins, 1961, no. 54

Lionello Venturi, Cézanne, son art - son œuvre, San Francisco, 1989, vol. I, no. 1271, catalogued p. 305; verso illustrated vol. II, pl. 348 (Vénus et amours listed as verso)
Adrien Chappuis, Dessins de Paul Cézanne, Paris, 1938, no. 6, recto illustrated n.p.
Gertrude Berthold, Cézanne und die alten Meister, Stuttgart, 1958, no. 27, verso illustrated pl. 110
John Rewald, 'Cézanne au Louvre', in L'Amour de l'Art, October 1935, p. 288
Theodore Reff, 'Cézanne, Flaubert, St. Anthony, and the Queen of Sheba', in The Art Bulletin, June 1962, recto illustrated p. 113
Adrien Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1973, vol. I, no. 967, recto illustrated p. 225; no. 604, verso illustrated p. 171; vol. II, nos. 967 & 604, illustrated
John Rewald, Cézanne. A Biography, New York, 1986, verso illustrated p. 229

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, attached to the overmount on both sides along all four edges. Apart from some tiny specs of foxing, mainly to the recto, this work is in very good condition.
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Fig. 1, Image of the verso

The present work is page XV fr🌊om the artist's sketchbook CP I.