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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 2182
L'Amour en plâtre
1900–04
Alternate titles: Gipsfigur; L'Amour de Duquesnoy; L'Amour de Puget; L'Amour en plâtre, d'après Duquesnoy; Plâtre; Statue
Rewald (W560); Venturi revised: c.1895; Venturi (1081): 1895–1900
Graphite and watercolor on paper
17 11/16 x 8 11/16 in. (45 x 22 cm)
Private collection
Provenance
Estate of Paul Cezanne
Josse Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (1907);
Private collection, Paris
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich (2000)
Private collection (2000)
Exhibition History
1907d Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Les aquarelles de Cézanne, June 17–29, 1907, no. 77 ?, as Plâtre, tentative identification; could also be FWN2181.1907 Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, X. Jahrgang, 1907/1908, I. Ausstellung, September 30–October 18, 1907, no. 68, as Statue, tentative identification; could also be FWN2181.1908b Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XI. Jahrgang, Winter 1908/1909, II. Ausstellung, October 15–November 8, 1908, no. 22, as Gipsfigur, tentative identification; could also be FWN2181 (Echte and Feilchenfeldt 2013c).1935b Paris
Galerie Renou et Colle, Paris, Aquarelles et baignades de Cézanne, June 3–17, 1935.1936c Paris
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 129, as L'Amour en plâtre, c.1895–1900, lent by Mme Josse Bernheim-Jeune, Paris.1956 Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cezanne Aquarelliste, October 13–November 8, 1956.1960 Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune-Dauberville, Paris, Cézanne – Aquarelliste et Peintre, May–July 1960, no. 15, as L'Amour en plâtre, 1895-1900.1966e Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cent ans d'aquarelle, 1860-1960, June–July 1966, no. 19, as L'Amour de Duquesnoy, dated 1895–1900.1971 Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Aquarelles de Cézanne: au profit de la fondation des journalistes, January 12–March 13, 1971, no. 13, as L'Amour en plâtre, 1895-1900.1988 Basel
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Aquarelle, Gouachen, Zeichnungen, October 15–December 31, 1988, no. 16, ill.1995–96 Paris and traveling
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 164, ill. in color, p. 395, as L'Amour en plâtre, 1900-1904, lent by Private collection, shown in London and Philadelphia only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.1998–99 Sydney
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 63, ill., as L'Amour en plâtre, 1900-04, lent by Private collection.1999–2000 Riehen/Basel
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne und die Moderne, October 10, 1999–January 9, 2000, no. 37, ill. in color, p. 34, as L'Amour en plâtre, 1900-04, lent by Private collection.2017–18 Karlsruhe
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 75, ill.Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1081, ill. vol. II, as L'Amour de Puget.Huyghe 1936d
Huyghe, René. Cézanne. Paris: Plon, Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1936, p. 62, ill.Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, listed p. 154.Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 560, ill.Wadley 1991
Wadley, Nicholas. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing. New York: Penguin Books, 1991, p. 213, ill.Feilchenfeldt 2005d
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Die Zeichnungen Cézannes: Kleine Formate: Skizzen. Grosse Formate: Aquarelle ohne Farbe." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 225, ill.Sidlauskas 2009
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, p. 157, fig. 43.Echte and Feilchenfeldt 2013b
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Kollektionen Paul Cézanne, Curt Herrmann, Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch: 30. September bis 18. Oktober 1907." Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1905-1908. vol. 3, "Den Sinnen ein magischer Rausch". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2013, p. 492, ill.Lloyd 2015
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 46, fig. 17.Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 303bis, ill., as L'Amour en plâtre, d'après Duquesnoy.
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 March 17, 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 2182)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1542 (accessed on April 18, 2024).
