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)
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Elmer de Haas
FWN 2137
D'après Rubens: Bellone
1879–82
Alternate titles: "Bellona" - d'après Rubens; After Rubens: Bellona; Allegorische Figur; Bellona; Bellona, d'après Rubens; Bellone d'après L'Apothéose de Henri IV de Rubens; Etude d'après la Bellone de Rubens; La Guerre; Nu allégorique; Studie nach Rubes: Bellona
Chappuis (489); Venturi (1455): 1888–95
Graphite on paper
19 3/16 x 11 15/16 in. (48.7 x 30.3 cm)
Private collection
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 171, as Allegorische Figur, c. 1895, lent by Robert von Hirsch, Basel.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 163, ill. p. 263, as Studie nach Rubes: Bellona, 1880-1882, lent by Private collection.
Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, September 18–October 7, 1986, no. 67, ill. lent by Priavte collection, Switzerland. Traveled to: Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan, October 10–November 9, 1986; Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, November 15–December 4, 1986.
Musée du Louvre, Paris, Copier Créer: de Turner à Picasso: 300 œuvres inspirées par les maîtres du Louvre, April 26–July 26, 1993, no. 55, ill., as Bellone d'après L'Apothéose de Henri IV de Rubens, lent by Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 110, ill. in color, p. 291, as Bellona, d'après Rubens, 1879-1882, 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.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 60, ill., as D'après Rubens: Bellone, 1879-82, lent by Private collection.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 60, ill., as "Bellona" - d'après Rubens, 1879-82, lent by Private collection. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Hommage à Cézanne, November 30, 2006–February 11, 2007, no no., as Bellona, lent by Private collection.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 71, ill. lent by Private collection.
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 37, ill.
Published References
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, pl. p. 110, as La Guerre.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 141.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, pl. p. 184, as La Guerre.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1455, il. vol. II, as Nu allégorique.
Reff, Theodore. "Studies in Cézanne's Drawings." Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1956, p. 129.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, pp. 14, 18, 50, 51, cat. no. 204, figs. 4, 104.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 489, ill., as After Rubens: Bellona.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 130, no. 03, ill. p. 131, as Etude d'après la Bellone de Rubens, 1879-82.
"Introduction." In Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence; Liège: [s.n.], 1982. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 47, as Etude d'après la Bellone de Rubens.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, p. 231, fig. 137.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, ill. p. 208, p. 306, no. 226, ill.
Schmidt, Bertram. "Guila Ballas: Cézanne. Baigneuses et Baigneurs." Review of Cézanne, Baigneuses et Baigneurs. Thème et composition, by Guila Ballas. Journal für Kunstgeschichte. Die internationale Rezensionszeitschrift 4 (2004).
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézanne: Vollendet, Unvollendet." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel,
Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 279, ill.
Stonard, John-Paul. "Cézanne and the past." The Burlington Magazine 155, no. 1320 (March 2013), fig. 29 p. 175.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 45, fig. 16.
Eiling, Alexander. "Cézanne's Metamorphoses." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 4 (in reverse).
Record last updated January 29, 2025. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après Rubens: Bellone, 1879–82 (FWN 2137)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2154 (accessed on May 2, 2025).
