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 2181
L'Amour en plâtre
1900–04
Alternate titles: Gipsfigur; L'Amour de Duquesnoy; L'Amour de Puget; L'Amour en plâtre, d'après Duquesnoy; Plaster Cupid; Platre; Statue; The Plaster Cupid
Rewald (W558); Venturi revised: c.1895; Venturi (1082): 1895–1900
Graphite and watercolor on paper
18 15/16 x 8 15/16 in. (48.1 x 22.7 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Les aquarelles de Cézanne, June 17–29, 1907, no. 77 ?, as Platre, tentative identification; could also be FWN2182.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, X. Jahrgang, 1907/1908, I. Ausstellung, September 30–October 18, 1907, no. 68, as Statue, tentative identification; could also be FWN2182.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XI. Jahrgang, Winter 1908/1909, II. Ausstellung, October 15–November 8, 1908, no. 22, as Gipsfigur, tentative identification; could also be FWN2182 (Echte and Feilchenfeldt 2013c).
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cezanne Aquarelliste, October 13–November 8, 1956.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune-Dauberville, Paris, Cézanne – Aquarelliste et Peintre, May–July 1960, no. 16, as L'Amour en plâtre, 1895-1900.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cent ans d'aquarelle, 1860-1960, June–July 1966, no. 20, as L'Amour de Duquesnoy, dated 1895–1900.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Aquarelles de Cézanne: au profit de la fondation des journalistes, January 12–March 13, 1971, no. 14, as L'Amour en plâtre, 1895-1900.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 165, ill. in color, p. 395, as L'Amour en plâtre, 1900-1904, lent by The Morgan Library, New York, shown in Paris and London only. 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. 44, ill.
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolor, October 12, 2004–January 2, 2005, pl. 16, as Plaster Cupid, c. 1900-04.
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Inspiring Impressionism: The Impressionists and the Art of the Past, October 16, 2007–January 13, 2008, no. 18, ill. p. 65, as The Plaster Cupid, shown in Atlanta and Denver only. Traveled to: Art Museum, Denver, February 23–May 25, 2008; Art Museum, Seattle, June 15–September 21, 2008.
Morgan Library & Museum, New York, Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection, September 29, 2017–January 7, 2018, no. 47 of Catalogue Raisonné, ill., as The Plaster Cupid. Traveled to: Clark Art Institue, Williamstown, Massachusetts, February 3–April 29, 2018.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 239, Morgan Library and Museum.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1082, ill. vol. II, as L'Amour de Puget.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, listed p. 154.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 558, ill.
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 257, ill., as L'Amour en plâtre, 1900-1904.
Denison, Cara D. et al. The Thaw Collection: Master Drawings and New Acquisitions. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1994, no. 84, ill.
Kitschen, Friederike. Cézanne: Stilleben. Ostfildern-Ruit: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1995, fig. 51.
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, p. 157, fig. 44.
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 594, no. 1418, ill. in color, as L'Amour en plâtre, c. 1900-1904.
Tonkovich, Jennifer et Giada Damen. "Catalogue Raisonné." In Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection, Tonkovich, Jennifer, ed. New York: The Morgan Library & Museum, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, no. 47, ill., as The Plaster Cupid, c. 1902-04.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 303, ill., as L'Amour en plâtre, d'après Duquesnoy.
Record last updated June 11, 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 2181)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1540 (accessed on September 19, 2024).
