The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
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FWN 3011-12a
D'après Pigalle: L'amour embrassant l'amitié
1879–82
Alternate titles: After Pigalle: Love and Friendship; Dessin d'après: L'Amour et l'Amitié; L'Amour et l'Amitié, par Pigalle
Chappuis (501); Venturi (1334)
Graphite on wove paper, p. 12 from the BS I sketchbook
5 3/16 x 8 1/4 in. (13.1 x 20.9 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: The Basel Sketchbooks, March 10–June 5, 1988, listed p. 147, ill. p. 74.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 104, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1334, ill. vol. II, as L'Amour et l'Amitié, par Pigalle, as "Page XI".
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 47, cat. no. 159, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 501, ill., as After Pigalle: Love and Friendship.
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 225, ill., as Dessin d'après: L'Amour et l'Amitié, 1879-1882.
Koepplin, Dieter. Paul Cézanne: Die Basler Zeichnungen. Basel: Kunstmuseum, 1988, no. 38, ill.
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, L'Amour embrassant l'Amitié, marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Photo: P. Philibert; © Musée du Louvre
Related work
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Basel I, 1879–1900 (3011)
Sketchbook Basel I, 1879–1900 (3011)
The sheets in this sketchbook have been detached from the binding. Many have been trimmed so that there are slight variations in size. The "a" side is marked with Arabic numerals at the lower right.
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Record last updated August 11, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après Pigalle: L'amour embrassant l'amitié, 1879–82 (FWN 3011-12a), p. 12 from the BS I sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2167&sketchbook=3011 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
