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)
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© The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
FWN 1815
L'Enlèvement
c.1867
Alternate titles: L'Enlèvement de femmes, sous-bois fantastique, aquarelle; The Abduction
Rewald (W30); Venturi revised: c.1867; Venturi (821): c.1867
Ink, gouache, and watercolor on paper (fragment)
2 3/4 x 5 in. (7 x 12.7 cm)
Signed lower right: P. Cezanne
Provenance
Exhibition History
Tate Gallery, London, Paul Cézanne: an Exhibition of Watercolours, opening on April 10, 1946, no. 46, as The Abduction, c. 1867, lent by Mrs. S. Kaye (catalogue says lent by M. Etienne Bignou). Traveled to: Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, United Kingdom, May–June 1946; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom, July 1946.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Au fil de l'eau: Cézanne, June 17–September 15, 2000, no. 17, ill. p. 45, as L'Enlèvement, c. 1866, lent by The Morgan Library & Museum, New York.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 26, ill.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 28, Morgan Library and Museum.
Published References
Trublot, [P. Alexis]. "A Minuit: La Collection Murer." Le Cri du Peuple, October 21, 1887, no. 5, as L'Enlèvement de femmes, sous-bois fantastique, aquarelle (brought to our attention by Paul Smith).
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 821, ill. vol. II, as L'Enlèvement.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 30, ill.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, p. 160, fig. 89.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 100, fig. 2.
Freudenberg, Inken. Der Zweifler Cézanne. Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg, 2001, pl. 24.
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 36, fig. 26.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 86, fig. 45.
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Record last updated July 12, 2024. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Enlèvement, c.1867 (FWN 1815), (fragment)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1007 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
