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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
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York (Gift of Donald Oresman)

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Provenance
Eugène Murer, Auvers-sur-Oise and Paris
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Galerie E. Bignou, Paris
Jean-Pierre Durand-Matthiesen, Geneva
Knoedler Galleries, New York
Ray Stark, Hollywood
Robert Lehman, New York
Donald Oresman, New York;
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York (1989)
Exhibition History
1946c London and traveling
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.
2000 Aix-en-Provence
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.
2012–13 Budapest
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 26, ill.
2021a New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 28, Morgan Library and Museum.
Published References
Trublot 1887
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).
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, p. 101, ill.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 821, ill. vol. II, as L'Enlèvement.
Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 30, ill.
Lewis 1989
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, p. 160, fig. 89.
Cachin and Rishel 1995
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 100, fig. 2.
Freudenberg 2001
Freudenberg, Inken. Der Zweifler Cézanne. Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg, 2001, pl. 24.
Simms 2008
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 36, fig. 26.
Lloyd 2015
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 August 20, 2023. 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 2, 2024).