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 1849
La Rencontre d'Enée et de Didon à Carthage
c.1875
Alternate title: Aeneas meeting Dido at Carthage
Chappuis (324): 1873–76
Graphite on laid paper
9 x 12 in. (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
Verso bears inscriptions "Affectueux souvenir de Paul Cézanne 1915" and "Don de Mr Bret 1922"
Provenance
Exhibition History
The Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, Anonymous Collection [Pearlman Collection], July–September 1958, no. 26.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Drawings, Watercolors and Oils by Paul Cézanne, Lent by an Anonymous Collector, July 1–September 1, 1959, no. 8.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, A loan exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors and Sculpture from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman for the benefit of Greenwich House, January 27–February 21, 1959, no. 23, ill. in b/w, as Aeneas meeting Dido at Carthage, 1872-77.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, The Pearlman Collection, May 22–October 15, 1964.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Cézanne and His Contemporaries: The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman Collection, June 14–October 1, 1967, no. 9.
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Expressionism: The Mr. & Mrs. Henry Pearlman Collection of Works, June 10–October 4, 1970.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Summer Loan 1971: Paintings from New York Collections: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman and the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, July 13–September 7, 1971, no. 23.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, Paintings, Watercolors, Sculptures and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, May 22–September 29, 1974. Traveled to: Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, December 8, 1974–March 14, 1975; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, April 13–August 31, 1975; Francine and Sterling Clark Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, September 26, 1975–February 22, 1976; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, April 6–May 30, 1976.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, Cézanne Watercolors and Drawings in the Pearlman Collection, February 5–April 17, 1980.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, Cézanne Watercolors from the Pearlman Collection, April 21–June 24, 1981.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, and Prints from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation and the Collection of Mrs. Rose Pearlman, September 22–November 4, 1984.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, Art of Cézanne from the Henry & Rose Pearlman Foundation, May 2–July 14, 1986.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, European Drawings from Neo-Classicism to Impressionism, December 4, 1990–January 6, 1991.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, Cézanne in the Collection of the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation and the Collection of Mrs. Rose Pearlman, February 1–April 5, 1992.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Cézanne in focus : watercolors from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection, October 19, 2002–January 12, 2003, pp. 34-35, ill.
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection, March 13–June 22, 2014, no. 1, ill. 1873-76. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, July 11–October 5, 2014; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, October 25, 2014–January 11, 2015; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, February 7–May 18, 2015; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, September 12, 2015–January 3, 2016.
Published References
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 324, ill., as Aeneas meeting Dido at Carthage.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 20, ill., as La Rencontre d'Enée et de Didon à Carthage, 1873-76.
Giles, Laura, and Carol Armstrong, eds. Cézanne in Focus, Watercolors from The Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Art Museum, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, p. 35, fig. 1.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 151, pl. 50.
Simms, Matthew. "Painting on Drawing and Cézanne's Watercolors." In Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 162, fig. 105 (cat. 1).
Record last updated May 17, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Rencontre d'Enée et de Didon à Carthage, c.1875 (FWN 1849)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1982 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
