Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)

The present work depicts a bathing soldier, likely after Michelangelo’s Battle of Cascina; a portrait of the artist’s son; and a watercolor study for his contemporaneous painting, La Partie de Campagne. As recorded in Vollard’s archives, this last scene was originally extended, and likely separated by 1973, as noted in Chappuis under numbers 356 and 357. A more fully developed watercolor of the same subject, also titled La Partie de Campagne is developed in resplendent colors on the verso of the present lot, complete with a singer and string-player.