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FWN 2161

L'Amour en plâtre

1886–89

Alternate titles: After the Cupid attributed to Puget; Copie nach dem Amor des Puget; L'Amour de Puget; Putto

Chappuis (987); Venturi (1459): 1888–1895

Graphite on laid paper

Watermark: VIDALON

18 7/8 x 11 9/16 in. (48 x 29.4 cm) (sight)

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA (Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection) (2021.179)

Keywords

Studies
After sculpture:
- Puget »

Provenance

Walther Halvorsen, Oslo

Jens Thiis, Oslo (1919)

Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne (June 19, 1929)

Galerie Thannhauser, Paris and New York

Arthur K. Solomon, Cambridge, MA (1941);

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA (2021)

Exhibition History

1935 Basel

Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Meisterzeichnungen französischer Künstler von Ingres bis Cézanne, June 29–August 18, 1935, no. 189, as Putto, lent by Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne.

1936 Basel

Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 170, as Copie nach dem Amor des Puget, lent by Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne.

1939 Lyon

Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 72, as L'Amour de Puget, 1888-1895, lent by Thannhauser.

1952 Chicago and traveling

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 93, as L'Amour de Puget, 1885-95, lent by Dr. Arthur K. Solomon, Cambridge, Mass. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.

1964 Waltham

Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Massachusetts, Boston Collects Modern Art, May 24–June 14, 1964, no. 15.

Published References

Venturi 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1459, 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. 139, ill.

Longstreet 1964

Longstreet, Stephen. The Drawings of Cézanne. Los Angeles: Borden Publishing Company, ill.

Chappuis 1973

Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 987, ill., as After the Cupid attributed to Puget.

Venturi 1978

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 130, no. 12, ill. p. 137, as L'Amour de Puget, 1886-89.

Patin 1995

Patin, Sylvie. Cézanne. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 20.

L'Amour en plâtre, 1886–89 (FWN 2161). 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 August 24, 2022. 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, 1886–89 (FWN 2161)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2675 (accessed on May 16, 2024).