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 1870
La Lutte d'amour
1875–76
Alternate titles: Der Liebeskampf; Der Liebeskampf (La lutte d'amour); Jeux d'amour; La lotta d'amore; La Lutte; Landscape and Bacchanales
Rewald (W60); Venturi revised: 1880–81; Venturi (897): 1875–76; Rivière: 1883; also 1894
Graphite, watercolor, and gouache on laid paper
7 1/2 x 9 5/8 in. (19 x 24.5 cm)
Private collection
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Flechtheim, Berlin, Cézanne, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen; Bronzen von Edgar Degas, May 19–June 16, 1927, no. 1, ill., as Der Liebeskampf, lent by Dr. Reber, Lugano.
Galerie Flechtheim, Berlin, Seit Cézanne in Paris, November 23–December 24, 1929, no. 23. Traveled to: Galerie Flechtheim, Düsseldorf, Germany, January 12 – end February 1930.
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 41, as La Lutte d'amour, 1875-1876, lent by Dr. Reber, Paris.
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 46, pl. 30, 1875-1876.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition Cézanne: Tableaux, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 1–August 15, 1961, no. 20, ill. in b/w, pl. 15, as La Lutte d'amour, 1875-76, lent by Private collection, Switzerland.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, April 2–20, 1963, no. 2, pl. III, as La Lutte d'amour, lent by Mrs. Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zürich.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Aquarelles de Cézanne: au profit de la fondation des journalistes, January 12–March 13, 1971, no. 2, as La Lutte d'amour, 1875-76, coll. Marianne Feilchenfeldt, Zurich.
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September 19–November 4, 1973, no. 26, ill. in b/w, and ill. in color on cover, catalogue note: p. 155, as La Lutte d'amour, lent by W. Feilchenfeldt, Zurich. Traveled to: Hayward Gallery, London, November 13–December 30, 1973.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 10, ill., as Der Liebeskampf (La lutte d'amour), 1875-76, lent by Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zürich. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.
Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, September 18–October 7, 1986, no. 42, ill. lent by Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zürich. Traveled to: Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan, October 10–November 9, 1986; Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, November 15–December 4, 1986.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 79, pl. 34.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 65, ill. in color, p. 207, as La Lutte d'amour, 1875-1876, lent by Private collection. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Acquavella Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, October 18–November 24, 1999, no. 35, ill.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Au fil de l'eau: Cézanne, June 17–September 15, 2000, no. 19, ill. p. 25, as La Lutte d'amour, 1875-76, lent by Private collection, Zurich.
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni, March 7–July 7, 2002, listed p. 120, ill., as La lotta d'amore, lent by Private collection.
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Hommage à Cézanne, November 30, 2006–February 11, 2007, no no., as La Lutte d'amour, C. 1875/76, lent by Walter and Maria Feilchenfeldt.
Albertina, Vienna, Impressionismus: Pastelle, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, October 14, 2011–January 8, 2012, no. 14, ill., as Der Liebeskampf, c. 1880, lent by Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich.
Published References
Weisbach, Werner. Impressionismus: Ein Problem der Malerei in der Antike und Neuzeit ,vol. II. Berlin: G. Grote'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1911, ill. p. 159.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 160.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und seine Ahnen: Faksimiles nach Aquarellen, Feder- und anderen Zeichnungen von Tintoretto, Greco, Poussin, Corot, Delacroix, Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1921, pl. XX.
The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 39, no. 225 (December 1921), ill. p. [252], as Landscape and Bacchanales.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 192.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 211, listed, as La Lutte.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 897, ill. vol. II, as La Lutte d'amour.
Schmidt, Georg. Aquarelle von Paul Cézanne. Mit zweiundreissig vielfarbigen Tafeln. Basel: Holbein-Verlag, 1952, fig. 4.
Faunce, Sarah C. "Cézanne Watercolor Exhibition." Art Quarterly 24, no. 1 (Spring 1963), p. 119, ill.
Grünigen, Berchtold von. Vom Impressionismus zum Tachismus. Basel: Birkhäuser, 1964, p. 27, fig. 39.
Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne and Delacroix." The Art Bulletin 46, no. 1 (March 1964), p. 58, note 14.
Rawson, Philipp. "Intimate Scaffolding'/Cézanne's Drawings and Watercolors." International Studio (January 1974), p. 25, ill.
Monnier, G. "The Late Watercolors." In Cézanne: The Late Work, Rubin, William, ed. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 115-116, ill.
"Paul Cézanne - Aquarelle." Kunsthaus Zürich - Mitteilungsblatt der Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft (Zurich) 2.82 (1982), ill. p. 7.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 60, ill.
Mráz, Bohumír. Aquarelles et dessins impressinnistes. [Gennevilliers]: Ars Mundi, 1987, pl. 81, listed p. 203, as Jeux d'amour.
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. 28, as La Lutte d'amour.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 140, ill.
Coutagne, Denis. "Cézanne au fil de l'eau." In Au fil de l'eau. Aix-en-Provence: Ville d'Aix-en-Provence, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 25, as La Lutte d'amour.
Kropmanns, Peter, and Uwe Fleckner. "Von kontinentaler Bedeutung: Gottlieb Friedrich Reber und seine Sammlungen." In Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: französische Kunst in deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, edited by Andrea Pophanken and Felix Billeter. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001, listed p. 388.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 311, no. 273, ill.
Mori, Gioia. "'La letteratura si esprime con astrazioni mentre il pittore concretizza.' Gli scrittori di Cézanne: Zola, Balzac e Flaubert." In Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni. Milan: Mazzotta, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 82.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, pp. 194–95, fig. 133.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 431, ill. Collection Marianne Feilchenfeldt.
Notes
The inspiration for this scene has been attributed to Eugène Delacroix's Spartan Girls Wrestling (R. Ratcliffe) and to his Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, a mural in the Church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris (S. Lichtenstein).
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Lutte d'amour, 1875–76 (FWN 1870)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1037 (accessed on May 24, 2025).
