Catalogue entry

FWN 2179

L'Amour en plâtre

c.1900

Alternate titles: L'Amour de Puget; Studie nach Puget's Cupido

Rewald (W557); Venturi revised: c.1895; Venturi (1084): 1885–1900

Graphite and watercolor on paper

24 13/16 x 19 5/16 in. (63 x 49 cm)

Vollard archives: photo no. 154

Private collection, Gstaad

Keywords

Studies
After sculpture:
- Puget »

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris

Sam Salz, New York

Private collection, Lausanne;

Private collection, Gstaad

Exhibition History

1963f New York

Knoedler Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, April 2–20, 1963, no. 36, pl. XXXVII, as L'Amour en plâtre, c. 1895, lent by Private collection, New York.

2017 Martigny

Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 13, ill. (with erroneous dimensions), lent by Private collection.

2021a New York

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 238, Private collection.

Published References

Vollard 1914

Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, p. 165, ill.

Venturi 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1084, ill. vol. II, as L'Amour de Puget.

Hofmann 1953

Hofmann, Werner. Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). Munich, Vienna, Basel: Kurt Desch, 1953, pl. 34, as Studie nach Puget's Cupido, 1895-1900, Collection Sam Salz, New York.

Rousseau 1953

Rousseau, Théodore, Jr. Paul Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1953, pl. 34.

Berthold 1958

Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, listed p. 154.

Rubin, W. 1977a

Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 176.

Rewald 1983a

Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 557, ill. and color pl. 38.

L'Amour en plâtre, c.1900 (FWN 2179). 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.

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.

Related work

Record last updated December 17, 2020. 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, c.1900 (FWN 2179)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1539 (accessed on May 2, 2025).