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Catalogue entry

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
D'après Rubens: Bellone, 1879–82 (FWN 2137). Verso
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Provenance
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
Robert von Hirsch, Frankfurt and Basel;
Von Hirsch Collection, Sotheby's, London, June 27, 1978, no. 834
Marianne Feilchenfeldt, Zurich
Private collection
Exhibition History
1936 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 171, as Allegorische Figur, c. 1895, lent by Robert von Hirsch, Basel.
1956 Zurich
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Paul Cézanne, August 22–October 7, 1956, no. 106.
1978 Tübingen
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.
1986 Tokyo and traveling
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.
1993b Paris
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.
1995–96 Paris and traveling
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.
1998–99 Sydney
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.
2000 Vienna and traveling
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).
2006–07 Zurich
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Hommage à Cézanne, November 30, 2006–February 11, 2007, no no., as Bellona, lent by Private collection.
2012–13 Budapest
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.
2017–18 Karlsruhe
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 37, ill.
Published References
Gasquet 1921b
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, pl. p. 110, as La Guerre.
Meier-Graefe 1922
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 1926
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, pl. p. 184, as La Guerre.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1455, il. vol. II, as Nu allégorique.
Reff 1956
Reff, Theodore. "Studies in Cézanne's Drawings." Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1956, p. 129.
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, pp. 14, 18, 50, 51, cat. no. 204, figs. 4, 104.
Chappuis 1973
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 1978
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 130, no. 03, ill. p. 131, as Etude d'après la Bellone de Rubens, 1879-82.
Aix-en-Provence 1982
"Introduction." In Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence; Liège: [s.n.], 1982. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 47, as Etude d'après la Bellone de Rubens.
Lewis 1989
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, p. 231, fig. 137.
Verdi 1992
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 163,fig. 139.
Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 231, fig. 137.
Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, ill. p. 208, p. 306, no. 226, ill.
Schmidt 2004a
Schmidt, Bertram. Cézannes Lehre. Kiel: Ludwig, 2004, fig. 3.
Schmidt 2004b
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 2005h
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 2013
Stonard, John-Paul. "Cézanne and the past." The Burlington Magazine 155, no. 1320 (March 2013), fig. 29 p. 175.
Lloyd 2015
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 45, fig. 16.
Eiling 2017
Eiling, Alexander. "Cézanne's Metamorphoses." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 4 (in reverse).
D'après Rubens: Bellone, 1879–82 (FWN 2137). Peter Paul Rubens, L'apothéose de Henri IV et la proclamation de la régence de Marie de Médicis, le 14 mai 1610 (The Death of Henry IV and the Proclamation of the Regency) from the Medici cycle, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Peter Paul Rubens, L'apothéose de Henri IV et la proclamation de la régence de Marie de Médicis, le 14 mai 1610 (The Death of Henry IV and the Proclamation of the Regency) from the Medici cycle, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Photo: Erich Lessing; © Musée du Louvre

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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 April 26, 2024).