Estate of the artist
Paul Guillaume, Paris
Adrien Chappuis, Tresserve
Sale: Maurice Rheims, Palais Galliera, Paris, 23rd March 1965, lot 14
Private Collection, New York (acquired in 1965)
Acquired from the above by the pre𒈔s﷽ent owner in 2007

Lionello Venturi, Cézanne, son art - son œuvre, Paris, 1936, vol. I, no. 1316, catalogued p. 312; vol. II, no. 1316, illustrated pl. 355
Gertrude Berthold, Cézanne und die alten Meister, Stuttgart, 1958, no. 161, illustrated p. 104

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, attached to the overmount on both sides, along all four edges. Apart from some very light scattered spots of foxing, mainly visible on the verso, this work is in very good condition.
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FIG. 1 Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, L'Amour et l'amitié, 1754, marble, Louvre, Paris