Figure 10 Paul Cezanne Sketchbook Page with Two Studies of Paul Cezanne (Son), a Female Half-Figure Study, a Bather, and a Class (recto), c. 1878 Graphite, with ink blot, on paper, 24.8 x 30.8 cm 3 (9 /4 x 121/8 in.) Vienna, Albertina 24088 back are penciled in, followed on the next page by another view of the sleeping Paul, shown half lost to the blank of the page like a swimmer half submerged in water. The verso of that page, in turn, shows another view of the head and hand of Cezanne fils. This time the hand is to the left and the head to the right, the hand is shown from the side, palm side down but in a similar gesture as before, and the head, eye closed and mouth half open, is again shown half drowned in pillows as if they were ripples of water. Curiously, the hand, which is probably the hand of the sleeping son, is pre sented as if it might be a drawing (or writing) hand, with the index finger curled over a gently flexed thumb. (Something of the same gesture is found in the supine hand on the first of these four pages.) Thus the hand movements of drawing, the uncon- scious gestures of sleep, the intimate relations of the family, and the sequence of notebook pages are linked to one another in a somatic chain. 23 THE BIOGRAPHY OF OBJECTS