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Catalogue entry

FWN 1861
L'Eternel féminin
c.1877
Alternate titles: Das Ewigweibliche (L'Eternel féminin); Eternal Feminine; La Belle Impéria
Rewald (W57); Venturi revised: c.1877; Venturi (895): 1875–77; Rivière: c.1879
Graphite, watercolor, and gouache on laid paper
6 7/8 x 9 in. (17.4 x 22.8 cm)
Jasper Johns

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Nicolas-Auguste Hazard, Orrouy (Feb. 1896);
Hazard Collection, Galerie G. Petit, Paris, Dec. 1–3, 1919, no. 259, ill.
Jos. Hessel, Paris
Auguste Pellerin, Paris
Jean-Victor Pellerin, Sweden
Wildenstein Galleries, New York
Private collection, Zurich
Arnold Gumowitz, New York
Sotheby's, New York, Nov. 6, 1991, no. 18, ill.; bought in
Jasper Johns
Exhibition History
1895 Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895.
1936c Paris
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 117, as L'Eternel féminin, c. 1877, lent by M et Mme Renée Pellerin, Paris.
1974 Tokyo and traveling
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 65, ill., as L'Eternel féminin, c. 1877, lent by Private collection, Zürcih. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
1979a London
Wildenstein Galleries, London, French Drawings XVIth to XIXth Century, 1979.
1982 Tübingen and traveling
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 8, ill., as Das Ewigweibliche (L'Eternel féminin), 1872-75, lent by Private collection. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.
1989 Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 77, pl. 52, lent by Arnold and Anne Gumowitz, New York.
2021a New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 39, Collection Jasper Johns.
2022–23 Chicago and traveling
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 12, ill. Jasper Johns Collection. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 207, listed, as La Belle Impéria.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 895, ill. vol. II, as L'Eternel féminin.
Novotny 1937
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 93.
Nicodemi 1944
Nicodemi, Giogio. Cézanne: 76 Disegni. Milan: Görlich, 1944, no. 16, ill.
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 35.
Lindsay 1969b
Lindsay, Jack. Cézanne: His Life and Work. London: Evelyn, Adams & Mackay, 1969, fig. 82.
Dellis 1972
Dellis, Max. "'L'Eternel Féminin' de Cézanne." Arts et Livres de Provence (Marseille) 81 (1972), pp. 7-10 (inspired by Balzac's La Belle Impéria.
Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 57, ill. and color pl. 3.
Elderfield 1985
Elderfield, John. "Cézanne: The Lesson of the Master." Review of Paul Cézanne; The Watercolors, by John Rewald. Art in America 73, no. 6 (June 1985), p. 86, ill.
Bernard, B. 1986
Bernard, Bruce. The Impressionist Revolution. London: Orbis, 1986, p. 116, ill.
Rewald 1986b
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 114, ill.
Adriani 1988
Adriani, Götz. "La Lutte d'amour: Notes on Cézanne's Early Figure Scenes." In Cézanne: The Early Years 1859-1872. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1988. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 34, as L'Eternel féminin.
Teboul 1988
Teboul, Jacques. Les Victoires de Cézanne. Paris: Adam Biro, 1988, no. 5, ill.
Cachin and Rishel 1995
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 161, fig. 1, as L'Eternel féminin, c. 1877.
Kostenevich 1995
Kostenevich, Albert. Hidden Treasures Revealed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 195, fig. 1.
Krumrine 1995
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Du plongeon aux baigneuses." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 55.
Schmitt 1995
Schmitt, Evmarie. Cézanne in der Provence. München and New York: Prestel, 1995, p. 37.
Harvey 1998
Harvey, Benjamin. "Cézanne and Zola: A Reassessment of 'L'Eternel féminin.'" Burlington, vol. 140, no. 1142 (May 1998), p. 315, fig. 22.
Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 310, no. 263, ill.
Andersen 2004
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 3, fig. 2.
Armstrong 2004
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2004. Exhibition catalogue, p. 88, fig. 34, as Eternal Feminine.
Prat 2011
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 603, no. 1441, ill. in color, as L'Eternel féminin, 1875-1877.
Colrat 2013
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 186, fig. 79.
Lloyd 2015
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 91, fig. 50.
Eiling et al. 2017
Eiling, Alexander, Anett Göthe, Astrid Reuter, Bettina Kaufmann, Eva-Maria Höllerer, Juliane Betz and Julia Lachenmann. "Catalog." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 164 fig. 1.
Notes

This work and the painting of the same subject (FWN 649) has been linked to Eugène Delacroix's Death of Sardanapalus (Musée du Louvre, Paris).

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Record last updated June 22, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Eternel féminin, c.1877 (FWN 1861)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1034 (accessed on May 4, 2024).