Catalogue entry

FWN 3018-27b

L'Eternel féminin

1890–95 (possibly earlier)

Alternate titles: Das Ewigweibliche (L'Eternel féminin); En triomphe; La Belle Impéria; Le triomphe; Le triomphe de la femme; The Eternal Feminine; V triumfu

Rewald (W385); Venturi revised: c.1870; Venturi (904): 1878–82

Graphite and watercolor on wove paper, possibly p. LIV from the CP IV sketchbook

8 1/4 x 10 5/8 in. (21 x 27 cm)

National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (Matsukata Collection)

Provenance

Georges Bernheim, Paris

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (October 6, 1919)

Baron Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe and Paris (July 7, 1921);

sequestered by the French Government (1944); returned to the Japanese Government (1959)

Exhibition History

1923a Prague

S.V.U. Mánes, Municipal House, Prague, Francouzské umění XIX. a XX. století [French Art of the 19th–20th Centuries], May 26–June 1923, no. 152, as V triumfu, lent by Kojiro Matsukata.

1947 Strasbourg and traveling

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg, France, Les origines de l'art contemporain: la peinture française de Manet à Bonnard, November 1947–March 1948, no. 53, as Le triomphe, Collection M.[atsukata]. Traveled to: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, November 1947–March 1948; Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie, Besançon, November 1947–March 1948.

1953 Aix-en-Provence and traveling

Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 4–August 4, 1953, no. 32, as L'Eternel féminin, 1878-82, lent by Private collection, Paris. Traveled to: Musée Masséna, Nice, France, August 8–September 12, 1953; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble, France, September 15–October 18, 1953.

1958 Paris

Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, De l'Impressionnisme à nos jours, opening June 27, 1958, no. 26, ill., pl. 4, as Le triomphe, lent by the French State.

1962–79 Kobe and traveling

The Hakutsuru Museum, Kobe, Japan, The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, October 20–November 5, 1962. Traveled to: The Art Gallery of Aichi Prefecture, Nagoya, November 17–December 9, 1962; The Shimane Prefectural Museum, Matsue, October 5–20, 1963; The Ishibashi Museum, Kurume, October 26–November 10, 1963; The Nakajima Sports Center of Hokkaido, Hokkaida, Japan, August 22–September 13, 1964; The Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Kanazawa, September 22–October 10, 1965; The Cultural Center of Okayama Prefecture, Okayama, October 20–November 7, 1965; The Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Wakayama, October 15–November 4, 1966; The Cultural Center of Oita Prefecture, Oita, November 12–27, 1966; Nagasaki Prefectural Museum, Nagasaki, October 18–November 15, 1970; The Toyama Prefectural Center Museum of Art, Toyama, Japan, October 2–24, 1971; The Yamagata Museum, Yamagata, November 1–30, 1975; The Tottori Prefectural Museum, Tottori, Japan, October 9–November 7, 1976; The Nara Prefectural Museum, Nara, Japan, October 15–November 13, 1977; The Art Center of Oita Prefecture, Oita, Japan, December 20, 1978–January 31, 1979.

1974 Tokyo and traveling

National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 67, ill., as Le triomphe de la femme, 1880-85, lent by Musée National d'Art Occidental, Tokyo. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.

1982 Tübingen and traveling

Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 9, ill., as Das Ewigweibliche (L'Eternel féminin), 1888-90, lent by The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (Inv.-No. D. 1959-7). Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.

1986 Tokyo and traveling

Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, September 18–October 7, 1986, no. 53, ill. lent by National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. 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.

1997 Osaka

The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, Expressiveness of Materials, April 19–June 22, 1997, no. 24.

1999–2000 Yokohama and traveling

Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 68, ill., as L'Eternel féminin, lent by The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.

2001 Tokyo

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, French Masterpiece Drawings from The National Museum of Western Art, March 27–June 24, 2001.

2010a Tokyo

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Modern Drawings from The National Museum of Western Art: Selections from the Matsukata Collection and Post-1959 Acquisitions, February 23–May 30, 2010, no. 12.

2012 Tokyo

National Art Center, Tokyo, Cézanne: Paris-Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012, no. 49, ill.

2021a New York

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 40, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo.

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. 904, ill. vol. II, as L'Eternel féminin.

Anonymous 1940a

Anonymous. P. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tahamizawa-Mokuhansha, 1940, no. 374.

Dorival 1948

Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. XVII, listed p. 180.

La Collection Matsukata 1955

Tokyo, 1955, pl. 22.

Badt 1956

Badt, Kurt. Die Kunst Cézannes. Munich: Prestel, 1956, p. 77.

Musée National d'Art Moderne 1958

De l'Impressionnisme a nos jours. Paris, 1958. Exhibition catalogue, no. 26, pl. 4.

Mizue 1959

Mizue, no. 651 (July 1959), ill.

Musée National d'Art Occidental/Kokuritsu Seiyō Bijutsukan 1961

Musée National d'Art Occidental. Kokuritsu Seiyō Bijutsukan sōmokuroku (Catalogue du Musée National d'Art Occidental). Tokyo: Kokuritsu Seiyō Bijutsukan, 1961, p. 47, ill.

Chappuis 1962

Chappuis, Adrien. Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle. Olten and Lausanne: Urs Graf, 1962, vol. 1, p. 67, fig. 29.

Yoshikawa 1962

Yoshikawa, ItsujiI. Cézanne. Tokyo, 1962, pl. 30.

Badt 1965

Badt, Kurt. The Art of Cézanne. Translated by Sheila Ann Ogilvie. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1965, p. 103.

Dellis 1972

Dellis, Max. "'L'Eternel Féminin' de Cézanne." Arts et Livres de Provence (Marseille) 81 (1972), pp. 7-10.

Schapiro 1973

Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pp. 36-37, ill.

Rewald 1983a

Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 385, ill.

Akihiko and Masaharu 1990

Akihiko, Inoue, and Ono Masaharu. Cézanne Aquarelle (in Japanese). Kyoto: Korinsha, 1990, no. 11.

Kobe City Museum 1990

Kobe City Museum. The Old Matsukata Collection, Matsukata Korekushon Ten. Kobe: Jikkoiinkai, 1990, no. 379.

Andersen 2004

Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 65, fig. 46.

Colrat 2013

Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 183, fig. 76.

National Museum of Western Art 2018b

The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. 2, Sculpture, Drawings, Prints and Decorative Arts and Other Works. Tokyo: National Museum of Western Art, 2018, p. 120, no. 1489r, ill., as The Eternal Feminine, 1890-95.

Dauberville 2020

Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 425, ill. (verso not mentioned), as En triomphe.

Related work

Record last updated March 24, 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, 1890–95 (possibly earlier) (FWN 3018-27b), possibly p. LIV from the CP IV sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1366 (accessed on May 1, 2024).