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FWN 630
La Tentation de saint Antoine
c.1874
Alternate titles: La Tentation de Saint Antoine; La tentation de saint Antoine or Femmes nues; La Tentation de saint-Antoine
Rewald (240): c.1874; Venturi revised: 1872–74; Cézanne fils: 1875–80; Venturi (240): 1873–75; Rivière: 1870 (1933); Vollard: 1873; Cooper: 1874–75; Gowing: c.1873 (Burlington)
Oil on canvas
9 13/16 x 13 in. (25 x 33 cm)
Signed lower right: P. Cezanne
Vollard A stockbook: no. 4136, huile: Tentation de St Antoine. Le saint est assaillé par-dessus par un diable en vêtements rouges qui lui montre une femme dévêtue et des anges, 24 x 33 cm (800 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 155, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1875 ; in another hand: Hessel
Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama

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Provenance
Eugène Murer, Auvers-sur-Oise and Paris
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (January 20, 1900)
Jos. Hessel, Paris (January 25, 1900)
Auguste Pellerin, Paris;
M. et Mme René Lecomte, Paris;
Private collection, Neuilly;
Pellerin Collection, Christie's, London, Nov. 30,1992, no. 15, ill.
Acquavella Galleries, New York
Private collection
Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama
Exhibition History
1954 Paris
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 35, lent by private collection, Paris.
1997 Kasama
Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama, Ibaraki, Japan, Cézanne, October 4–November 30, 1997, no. 6, ill.
1999–2000 Yokohama and traveling
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 49, ill., as La Tentation de saint Antoine, lent by Kasam Nichido. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
2008–09 Yokohama and traveling
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Homage to Cézanne: His Influence on the Development of Twentieth Century Painting, November 15, 2008–January 25, 2009, no. 43, ill., as La Tentation de saint Antoine, lent by Kasama Nichido Museum of Art. Traveled to: Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan, February 7–April 12, 2009.
2012 Tokyo
National Art Center, Tokyo, Cézanne: Paris-Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012, no. 45, ill.
2017 Martigny
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 82, ill. lent by Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama.
Published References
Trublot 1887
Trublot, [P. Alexis]. "A Minuit: La Collection Murer." Le Cri du Peuple, October 21, 1887, no. 2.
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 13, as La Tentation de Saint Antoine.
Ruckstull 1925
Ruckstull, Fred Wellington. Great Works of Art and What Makes Them Great. New York: Garden City Publishing Co., 1925, p. 24, fig. 16 (caption calls picture "insane in thought" and "childish in artistry").
Rivière 1933
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 23, ill.
Raynal 1936
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. XIII p. 40.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 240, ill. vol. II, as La Tentation de saint-Antoine.
Rivière 1942
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 25, ill.
Seznec 1947
Seznec, Jean. "The Temptation of St. Anthony in Art." Magazine of Art 40 (March 1947).
Badt 1956
Badt, Kurt. Die Kunst Cézannes. Munich: Prestel, 1956, p. 84.
Gachet 1956
Gachet, Paul. Deux amis des impressionnistes: le Docteur Gachet et Murer. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1956, pp. 171 (reprint of article by P. Alexis), 174 (erroneous description refers to no. /entry:R300/).
Reff 1962b
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne, Flaubert, St. Anthony, and the Queen of Sheba." The Art Bulletin 44, no. 2 (June 1962), pp. 113–25, fig. 4.
Schapiro 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 45, ill.
Ballas 1974
Ballas, Guila. "Daumier, Corot, Papety, et Delacroix, inspirateurs de Cézanne." Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français (1974), pp. 197 and 199, ill. in b/w fig. 7 p. 196, as La Tentation de saint Antoine, 1873-1875.
Rewald 1996
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. 240, ill. vol. 2, La Tentation de Saint Antoine.
Platzman 2001
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 123, 200, fig. 30, as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 309, no. 256, ill., as La Tentation de saint Antoine, 1873-75.
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 73; vol. 2, p. 71, as La Tentation de Saint Antoine.
Coutagne 2011b
Coutagne, Denis. "Le Femme exposée." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 90, fig. 40, as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
Colrat 2013
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 226, pl. 106.
Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 250, ill., as La tentation de saint Antoine or Femmes nues.
Notes

Flaubert's Tentation de saint Antoine appeared in L'Artiste in excerpted form from 1857; a complete edition first appeared in 1874. Cézanne painted the same theme of the saint in an earlier work from 1870  (La Tentation de saint Antoine, c.1870 (611)) and circa 1877 (La Tentation de saint Antoine, c.1877 (650)).

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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Tentation de saint Antoine, c.1874 (FWN 630)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=243 (accessed on April 25, 2024).