The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
(Formerly directed by Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash)
FWN 691
L'Amour en plâtre
1894–95
Alternate titles: Fruits et statuette; L'Amour aux fruits; Still Life with Cupid; Still Life with Plaster Cupid; Still Life with Statuette; Stilleben; Stilleben mit Amorette
Rewald (782): 1894–95; Venturi revised: c.1895; Venturi (707): c.1895; Cooper: 1894–95
Oil on canvas
24 13/16 x 31 7/8 in. (63 x 81 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3678, huile. enfant de plâtre sans bras sur une table au milieu de deux nature mortes de pommes sur un tapis bleu, 65 x 80 cm (100 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 532, Annotated: circa 1895
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Miethke, Dorotheergasse 11, Vienna, Kollektiv-Ausstellung Max Kurzweil und Carl Moll, March 4–30, 1911, as Nature morte (Sculpture en plâtre et pêches), tentative identification, 30,000 Fr net.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, French Art, Spring 1917, no. 5, as L'Amour en plâtre, lent by Klas Fåhræus, Stockholm.
Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet:25 år: Jubileumsutställning, November 1943, no. 2, ill., as L'Amour en plâtre, c. 1895, lent by Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Cézanne till Picasso, fransk konst i svensk ägo, September 1954, no. 70, ill. p. 21, as L'Amour en plâtre, 1895, lent by Nationalmuseum.
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 41, ill. lent by Stockholm.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 161, ill. shown in Paris and London only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Cézanne i blickpunkten, October 17, 1997–January 11, 1998, no. 25, ill., pp. 82–83 (dated 1894–95).
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 44, ill., as L'Amour en plâtre. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Impressionist Still Life, September 22, 2001–January 13, 2002, pp. 186, 187, pl. 87, as Still Life with Cupid, lent by Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February 17–June 9, 2002.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Impressionism and the North: Late 19th Century French Avant-Garde Art and the Art in the Nordic Countries 1870–1920, September 25, 2002–January 19, 2003, no. 32, ill., p. 126, as Still Life with Statuette. Traveled to: Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark, February 21–May 25, 2003.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 36, ill. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Inspiring Impressionism: The Impressionists and the Art of the Past, October 16, 2007–January 13, 2008, no. 16, ill. p. 63, as Still Life with Statuette. Traveled to: Art Museum, Denver, February 23–May 25, 2008; Art Museum, Seattle, June 15–September 21, 2008.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 62, ill. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Roosval, Johnny. "Om Herr Klas Fåhraeus' Konstsamling." Konst och Konstnärer (1913), p. 105, ill. (also right portion seen hanging in gallery, p. 101).
Forthuny, Pascal. "… et ailleurs: au musée de Stockholm." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 1, no. 23 (November 1, 1920), p. 653 (with erroneous illustration (FWN 692)).
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, p. 121, pl. p. 122, as L'Amour aux fruits.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 232.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, p. 200, pl. [38] hors texte, as L'Amour aux fruits.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 707, ill. vol. II, as L'Amour en plâtre.
Raynal, Maurice, Jean Leymarie, and Herbert Read. Histoire de la peinture moderne [1]: de Baudelaire à Bonnard, naissance d'une vision nouvelle. Geneva: Skira, 1949, ill. p. 49, as L'Amour en plâtre, c. 1895.
Hartlaub, G.F. Die Impressionisten in Frankreich. Wiesbaden: Emil Vollmer Verlag, [c. 1953], ill. p. 43, as Stilleben mit Amorette.
Reff, Theodore. "Book Reviews: Cézanne und die alten Meister by Gertrude Berthold." The Art Bulletin, vol. 42, no. 2 (June 1960), p. 149, Appendix, V. 707.
Feist, Peter Heinz. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1963, pp. 33ff, 34, 35, 48, 50, pl. 54.
Martini, Alberto, and Renata Negri. Cézanne e il post-impressionismo. Milan: Fabbri, 1967, pl. XIII.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 195, ill.
Baron, Jean-Marie and Pascal Bonafoux. Cézanne: Les Natures Mortes. Paris: Editions Herscher, 1993, p. 45, ill.
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 782, ill. vol. 2, as L'Amour en plâtre.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 382; vol. 2, p. 242, as L'Amour en plâtre.
Kostenevich, Albert. "Liubov Popova: From Cézanne to Utopia." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 346, pl. 120, as Still Life with Plaster Cupid.
Fraisset, Michel. "La vite silenziose di Cézanne." In Cézanne: les ateliers du midi. Milan: Skira, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 65, fig. 39.
Shiff, Richard. "Sensation, Cézanne." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 47, fig. 18, as Still Life with Plaster Cupid.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 8, pl. 1.
Cezanne, Jas de Bouffan: art et histoire. Under the scientific direction of Denis Coutagne and François Chédeville. Lyon; Aix-en-Provence: Fage édition; Société Paul Cezanne, 2019, fig. 186 p. 192.
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 32.
Record last updated January 16, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Amour en plâtre, 1894–95 (FWN 691)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=759 (accessed on April 27, 2024).
