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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)
Catalogue entry
FWN 2180
L'Amour en plâtre
1900–04
Alternate titles: Gips-Amor; Gips-Cupido; L'Amour de Puget; Putto aus Gips; Studie nach Nicolas Coustou (?): Stehender Putto (Etude d'après Nicolas Coustou (?): Amour debout)
Rewald (W556); Venturi revised: c.1895; Venturi (1083): 1895–1900
Graphite and watercolor on paper
18 7/8 x 12 3/8 in. (48 x 31.5 cm)
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Simon Meller, Budapest, Paris and Munich (1911)
Pál Majovszky, Budapest;
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest (Dec. 1934)
Exhibition History
1933 Budapest
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary, Francia rajzok, XV-XIX. század [Dessins français du XVe au XIXe siècle], 1933.1935 Budapest
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Majovszky Collection, 1935, no. 91.1967 Vienna
Albertina, Vienna, Meisterzeichnungen aus dem Museum der Schönen Künste in Budapest, May 22–July 9, 1967, no. 113, as Putto aus Gips.1970 Leningrad
?, Leningrad, Russian Federation, [Masterpieces of Drawing from the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest], 1970, no. 93.1982 Tübingen and traveling
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 107, ill., as Studie nach Nicolas Coustou (?): Stehender Putto (Etude d'après Nicolas Coustou (?): Amour debout), c. 1900, lent by Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest (Inv.-No. 1935-2676). Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.1988–89 Stuttgart
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany, Französische Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts aus dem Museum der Bildenden Künste Budapest, October 2, 1988–January 8, 1989, no. 45, ill., p. 103. Traveled to: Neue Pinakothek, Munich, January 20–March 5, 1989.1996 Bern and traveling
Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Zeichnen ist Sehen. Meisterwerke von Ingres bis Cézanne aus dem Museum der Bildenden Künste in Budapest und aus Schweizer Sammlungen, March 29–June 2, 1996, no. 94, ill., as Gips-Cupido, 1900-1904, lent by Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. Traveled to: Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, July 5–September 8, 1996.2000 Vienna and traveling
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 42, ill., as L'Amour en plâtre, 1900-04, lent by Szépmüvészeti Museum, Budapest. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).2012–13 Budapest
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 93, ill.2017–18 Karlsruhe
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 74, ill.2021a New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 240, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.2021–22 Budapest
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary, Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction, October 28, 2021–February 13, 2022, no. 75, ill.Published References
Meller 1919
Meller, Simon. "Handzeichnungen des XIX. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung Paul von Majovszky." Die Graphischen Künste 42 (1919), p. 15, ill.Marées-Gesellschaft 1921
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. XXI.Rózsaffy 1933
Rózsaffy, Didier. "Une exposition de dessins français du XVe au XXe siècle
au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Budapest." Le Bulletin de l'art ancien et moderne: supplément hebdomadaire de la Revue de l'art ancien et moderne (Paris) (June 1933), p. 383.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1083, ill. vol. II, as L'Amour de Puget.Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, listed p. 154.Pataky 1958
Pataky, Dénes. Von Delacroix bis Picasso: Zeichnungen aus der Sammlung des Museums der Bildenden Künste in Budapest. Budapest: Corvina Verlag, 1958, no. 71, pl. 71, as Gips-Amor.Genthon 1964
Genthon, István. Du romantisme au post-impressionnisme: Tableaux français en Hongrie: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Budapest. Budapest: Editions Corvina, 1964, p. 19, ill.Siblík 1969
Siblík, Jiří. Paul Cézanne: Kresby [Drawings]. Prague: Odeon, 1969, fig. 44.Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 556, ill.Kendall 1988
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 196, ill.Terrasse 1995
Terrasse, Antoine. Les aquarelles de Cézanne. Paris: Flammarion, 1995, p. 102-03, ill.Simms 2017b
Simms, Matthew. "Cézanne, Drawing, and the Past." In Cézanne and the past : tradition and creativity [international symposium, Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, 28 January 2013]. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2017, fig. 5.
Putto, copy after François Du Quesnoy (in Cézanne's time attributed to Pierre Puget), plaster cast, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. Identical to the one which Cezanne had in his Les Lauves studio.
Photo: Erik Cornelius; © Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
Front and back views of the plaster cast which belonged to Cezanne and which is conserved in his Lauves studio. Image from Chappuis, 1973, p. 228.
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Record last updated September 20, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Amour en plâtre, 1900–04 (FWN 2180)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1538 (accessed on April 26, 2024).
