Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)

Adrien Chappuis (op. cit.) erroneously catalogued the recto and verso images of the present work as being on two separate sheets. The recto shows a woman holding a conductor's baton. Viewed lengthwise, several studies emerge, but only the head of a bearded man, perhaps a pastiche after Ingres's Jupiter et Thétis (see Chappuis, no. 50), is decipherable. The female figure on the verso is related to another standing figure (Chappuis, no. 216) and this side of the sheet contains a faint counterproof image of the latter drawing.