Catalogue entry

FWN 2160

L'Amour en plâtre

c.1890

Alternate titles: After the Cupid attributed to Puget; Copie nach dem Amor des Puget; Copy after L'Amour en plâtre; L'Amour de Puget; L'Amour, d'après Puget; Skizze nach einem Armor von Puget; Studie nach Nicolas Coustou (?): Stehender Putto

Venturi (1461): 1888–95; Chappuis (986): 1886–89

Graphite on paper

19 x 12 3/16 in. (48.2 x 31 cm)

Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Keywords

Studies
After sculpture:
- Puget »

Provenance

Walther Halvorsen, Oslo, Norway

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (April 1, 1920)

Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam (1929)

Franz Koenigs, Haarlem;

Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Exhibition History

1924a Paris

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition Paul Cézanne (au profit de la caisse du monument Cézanne), March 3–24, 1924.

1933–34b Rotterdam

Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Teekeningen van Ingres tot Seurat, December 20, 1933–January 21, 1934, no. 3.

1934 Bern

Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland, Französische Meister des 19. Jahrhunderts und van Gogh, February 18–April 2, 1934, no. 10.

1936 Basel

Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 143, as Copie nach dem Amor des Puget, c. 1885, lent by F. Koenigs, Haarlem.

1952d Paris

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Musée Boymans de Rotterdam: dessins du XV^e au XIX^e siècle, February 20–April 20, 1952, no. 142, as L'Amour de Puget, 1888-95.

1955 Winterthur

Kunstmuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland, Europäische Meister, 1790–1910, June 12–July 24, 1955, no. 225, as L'Amour, d'après Puget, lent by Museum Boymans, Rotterdam.

1956 The Hague

Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 124, ill. 1888-95, lent by Museum Boymans, Rotterdam.

1956 Zurich

Kunsthaus, Zurich, Paul Cézanne, August 22–October 7, 1956, no. 186, ill., pl. 77.

1956 Munich

Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 141, ill. 1888/95, lent by Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam.

1963 Hamburg

Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany, Wegbereiter der modernen Malerei: Cézanne, Gauguin, van Gogh, Seurat, May 4–July 14, 1963, no. 32, pl. 81, as Skizze nach einem Armor von Puget, 1888-95, lent by Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam.

1973 Newcastle upon Tyne and traveling

Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September 19–November 4, 1973, no. 59, ill. in b/w, catalogue note: p. 163, as Copy after L'Amour en plâtre, lent by Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam; shown in London only. Traveled to: Hayward Gallery, London, November 13–December 30, 1973.

1978 Tübingen

Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 178, ill. p. 280, as Studie nach Nicolas Coustou (?): Stehender Putto, 1886-1889, lent by Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam.

2011–12 Paris

Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne et Paris, October 12, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 8, ill., p. 27, as L'Amour en plâtre, lent by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.

2021a New York

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 237, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.

Published References

Denis 1924

Denis, Maurice. "Le dessin de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 5, no. 2 (February 1924), ill. p. 37, as Dessin (Coll. Bernheim-Jeune).

Venturi 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1461, ill. vol. II, as L'Amour de Puget.

Berthold 1958

Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 21, cat. no. 131, ill.

Hoetink 1968

Hoetink, Bernard. Franse Tekeningen uit de 19e Eeuw. Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, 1968, no. 16, ill.

Siblík 1969

Siblík, Jiří. Paul Cézanne: Kresby [Drawings]. Prague: Odeon, 1969, fig. 17.

Chappuis 1973

Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 986, ill., as After the Cupid attributed to Puget.

Adriani 1978b

Adriani, Götz. "Paul Cézanne 1839-1906 - Das zeichnerische Werk." Die Kunst und das schöne Heim 12 (1978), p. 728, ill., as Studie nach Nicolas Coustou (?): Stehender Putto.

Düchting 1989

Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 197, ill.

Dauberville 2020

Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 433, ill.

L'Amour en plâtre, c.1890 (FWN 2160). Putto, copy after François Du Quesnoy (in Cézanne's time attributed to Pierre Puget), plaster cast, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. Identical to the one which Cezanne had in his Les Lauves studio.

Putto, copy after François Du Quesnoy (in Cézanne's time attributed to Pierre Puget), plaster cast, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. Identical to the one which Cezanne had in his Les Lauves studio.

Related work

Record last updated March 25, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Amour en plâtre, c.1890 (FWN 2160)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2674 (accessed on May 15, 2024).