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 611
La Tentation de saint Antoine
c.1870
Alternate titles: Akte; Die Versuchung des heiligen Antonius; Die Versuchung des hl. Antonius; La tentación de San Antonio; Mythologische Szene; Tentation de saint Antoine; The Temptation of St. Anthony; Versuchung des heiligen Antonius
Rewald (167): c.1870; Venturi revised: c.1870; Venturi (103): 1867–69; Rivière: 1870; Gowing: c.1869 and 1870 (Burlington)
Oil on canvas
22 3/8 x 29 7/8 in. (57 x 76 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3351, peinture à l'huile; Tentation de St. Antoine. Le saint est assaillé par une femme nue; à côté 3 autres femmes nues (manière noire), 57 x 76 cm (200 frs)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 3782, Tentation de St. Antoine, 57 x 76 cm (200 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 294, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1873
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 15–December 1899, no. 31, as La Tentation de saint Antoine, described in Guyon-Verax review.
Galerie Miethke, Dorotheergasse 11, Vienna, Französische Meister, January 19–February 1912, no. 22, as Versuchung des heiligen Antonius, lent by Vollard.
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany, Die klassische Malerei Frankreichs im 19. Jahrhundert: ein Überblick über die Entwicklung der modernen französischen Malerei in ausgewählten Werken der führenden Meister, July 18–September 30, 1912, no. 6, as Mythologische Szene, lent by Vollard, for sale.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Französische Kunst des XIX. und XX. Jahrhunderts, October 5–November 14, 1917, no. 18, as La Tentation de saint Antoine, lent by A.K[ann].
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 5, as Die Versuchung des hl. Antonius, 1867, lent by Alphonse Kann, St. Germain-en-Laye.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Honderd jaar Fransche kunst, July 2–September 25, 1938, no. 2, ill., as La Tentation de saint Antoine, lent by A. Kann.
Orangerie, Paris, Monticelli et le baroque provençal, June 19–September 15, 1953, no. 8, pl. XXVII, as Tentation de saint Antoine, c. 1867-1869, lent by Private collection, England.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 5, as La Tentation de saint Antoine, c. 1869, lent by anonymous. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Hauptwerke der Sammlung E.G. Bührle, December 1958–February 1959, no. 12.
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Masterpieces of French Painting from the Bührle Collection, August 19–September 17, 1961, no. 30. Traveled to: National Gallery, London, 1961.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 50, ill. Traveled to: Musée d'Orsay, Cézanne: les années de jeunesse 1859-1872, Paris, September 19, 1988–January 1, 1989; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., January 29–April 30, 1989.
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne und die Moderne, October 10, 1999–January 9, 2000, no. 4, ill., p. 31, as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Bordell und Boudoir. Schauplätze der Moderne: Cézanne, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, January 22–May 22, 2005, no. 15, ill., ill. pp. 76-77, as Die Versuchung des hl. Antonius, c. 1870.
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne et Paris, October 12, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 43, ill., p. 89, as La Tentation de saint Antoine, 1870, lent by Bührle Foundation.
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 81, ill. lent by Fondation Collection E.G. Bührle, Zurich.
Musée Maillol, Paris, La collection Emil Bührle, March 20–July 21, 2019, no. 14, ill., as La Tentation de saint Antoine, 1868.
Published References
Gebhardt, Karl. "Die Ausstellung klassischer französischer Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts im Frankfurter Kunstverein." Die Kunst für Alle 28, no. 3 (November 1, 1912), p. 70, as Akte.
Stern, Friederich. "Feuilleton: Kunstdämmerung." Neues Wiener Tagblatt (Tages-Ausgabe) (January 26, 1912), p. 3, as Versuchung des heiligen Antonius.
Hausenstein, Wilhelm. Die bildende Kunst der Gegenwart. Berlin: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1914, ill. opp. 97.
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pls. 6 and 47, as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 97.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 111, as Die Versuchung des hl. Antonius, dated 1870.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 199, listed.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Cézanne." In Entwicklungsgeschichte der modernen Kunst vol. 3. Munich: R. Piper & Co., [1924] (copyright 1915), pl. 487, as Die Versuchung des hl. Antonius, 1870.
Rintelen, Friedrich. "Paul Cézanne's geschichtliche Stellung." In Reden und Aufsätze. Basel: Schwabe, 1927, p. 155, mentioned.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XIII.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne: 24 phototypies. Paris: Librairie de France, [1928], [pl. 4], as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1936, fig. 49.
Sterling, Charles. "Cézanne et les maîtres d'autrefois." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 19, nos. 5-6 (May–June 1936), p. 8, as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
Huyghe, René. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 44 p. 168, as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 103, ill. vol. II, as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
Schenck, Edgar. "Girl with Her Doll." Bulletin of the Honolulu Academy of Arts 5, no. 1 (March 1937), fig. 1.
Seznec, Jean. "The Temptation of St. Anthony in Art." Magazine of Art 40 (March 1947), p. 91, ill.
Jedlicka, Gotthard. Cézanne. Berne: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1948, fig. 6, as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, pp. 35, 36.
Lapp, John C. "Zola et 'La Tentation de Saint Antoine.'" Revue des Sciences Humaines 92 (October–December 1958), pp. 513–18.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne: The Enigma of the Nude." Art News 58, no. 8 (November 1959), p. 29, ill., fig. 10.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne, Flaubert, St. Anthony, and the Queen of Sheba." The Art Bulletin 44, no. 2 (June 1962), fig. 1.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne and Hercules." The Art Bulletin, vol. 48, no. 1 (March 1966), p. 40, fig. 9.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 25.
Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich. Essays on Art, 1915–33. New York: G. Wittenborn, 1971, pp. 19–30, 116, fig. 3.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 44, ill.
Perucchi-Petri, Ursula. "War Cézanne Impressionist? Die Begegnung zwischen Cézanne und Pissarro." Du 35, no. 9 (September 1975), p. 51, ill.
Reff, Theodore. "Painting and Theory in the Final Decade." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 18, ill.
Embiricos, Georges A. "Cézanne et la répétition." Connaissance des Arts, no. 315 (May 1978), p. 72, ill.
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Cézanne's Bathers: Form and Content." Arts Magazine 54, no. 9 (May 1980), p. 118, fig. 10.
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 23, ill. in color.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 57, ill. in color.
"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), p. 29, ill.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 33, ill.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, pp. 183–92, 200, pl. XII.
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Paul Cézanne: The Bathers." In Paul Cézanne: The Bathers. Basel: Museum of Fine Arts, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, ill. 26 p. 51.
Paas Sigrun. "Betrachtungen zu Blau in der Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts." In Blau: Farbe der Ferne, Hans Gercke (editor). Heidelberg: Das Wunderhorn, 1990. Exhibition catalogue, p. 161-163, as Die Versuchung des hl. Antonius.
Bozal, Valeriano. "Paul Cézanne: la mirada es le leguaje." La Balsa de la Medusa (Madrid) 36 (1995), p. 90, ill. p. 89, as La tentación de San Antonio.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 156, fig. 1.
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 167, ill. vol. 2, as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 116, 118-19, 200, fig. 29, as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, fig. 4a p. 16, p. 309, no. 254, ill., as La Tentation de saint Antoine, c. 1869.
Mori, Gioia. "'La letteratura si esprime con astrazioni mentre il pittore concretizza.' Gli scrittori di Cézanne: Zola, Balzac e Flaubert." In Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni. Milan: Mazzotta, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 86.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 66, fig. 2.12, as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
Gloor, Lukas and Marco Goldin, eds. Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bühle Zürich, Katalog III. Conegliano and Zurich: Linea d'ombra Libri and Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, 2004, pl. 110.
Tosini, Aurora Scotti. "Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)." In Cézanne, Renoir. Milan: Skira, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 48, ill.
Baumann, Felix A. "One of the Greatest of All Time!" In Cézanne & Giacometti: Paths of Doubt. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2008. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 85–86, fig. 6, as The Temptation of St. Anthony.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 29; vol. 2, p. 43, as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
Kienle, Anabelle. "Cézanne and Beckmann: 'A Powerful New Pictorial Architecture.'" In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009, p. 312, fig. 11.5, as The Temptation of St. Anthony, dated 1867-70.
Chiappini, Rudy. "Quel silenzio, in attesa del tempo della rivelazione." In Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi. Milan: Skira, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 24, fig. 6.
Coutagne, Denis. "Le Femme exposée." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 89, ill., as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne abstraction faite. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2011, p. 180, fig. 122.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 224, pl. 105.
Etgar, Yuval. "Die Werke Paul Cézannes: eingenommen von Blickbezügen." In Die Sammlung Emil Bührle: Geschichte, Gesamtkatalog und 70 Meisterwerke. München: Hirmer, 2021, pp. 398-399, ill. p. 403, as Die Versuchung des heiligen Antonius.
Gloor, Lukas. "Der Bestand der Sammlung Emil Bührle: Illustrierte Liste aller 633 Käufe." In Die Sammlung Emil Bührle: Geschichte, Gesamtkatalog und 70 Meisterwerke. München: Hirmer, 2021, p. 282, no. 506, fig. 506 p. 283, as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Tentation de saint Antoine, c.1870 (FWN 611)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=175 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
