The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
(Formerly directed by Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash)
FWN 2162
L'Amour en plâtre
c.1890
Alternate titles: After the Cupid attributed to Puget; Copy after L'Amour en plâtre; L'Amour de plâtre; L'amour de Puget; Plaster Cupid; Studie nach Nicolas Coustou (?): Stehender Putto (Gipsabguß)
Chappuis (988); Venturi (1462): 1888–95
Graphite on laid paper
19 9/16 x 12 9/16 in. (49.7 x 31.9 cm)
Exhibition History
Arts Council of Great Britain, St. James's Square Gallery, London, Sixty Years of Patronage, September–October 1965.
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September 19–November 4, 1973, no. 75, ill. in b/w, catalogue note: p. 165, as Copy after L'Amour en plâtre, lent by the Trustees of the British Museum. Traveled to: Hayward Gallery, London, November 13–December 30, 1973.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 179, ill. p. 281, as Studie nach Nicolas Coustou (?): Stehender Putto (Gipsabguß), c. 1890, lent by The British Museum, London.
Sotheby's London, London, Monet to Freud: A Loan Exhibition of Works of Art from 1870 to the Present Day, December 31, 1988–January 25, 1989, no. 56.
Bristol Art Gallery, Bristol, Primacy of Drawings, September–November 1991, no. 18. Traveled to: Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent, November–December 1991; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, January–February 1992.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 163, ill. in color, p. 394, as L'Amour en plâtre, c. 1890, lent by the Trustees of the British Museum, London. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Cézanne i blickpunkten, October 17, 1997–January 11, 1998, no. 28, ill., pp. 88–89 (dated c. 1890).
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 62, ill., as L'Amour en plâtre, c. 1890, lent by The British Museum, London.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, French Drawings from the British Museum: Clouet to Seurat, November 8, 2005–January 29, 2006, no. 89. Traveled to: British Museum, London, 2006.
Poole Museum, Lines of thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to now, September 3–November 6, 2016, no. 31.
The Brynmor Jones Library Art Gallery, University of Hull, Hull, Lines of thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to now, January 1–February 25, 2017, no. 31. Traveled to: Ulster Museum, Belfast, March 12–May 5, 2017; New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, May 27–September 17, 2017; RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, October 6, 2017–January 7, 2018.
Published References
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, p. 117, pl. p. 116, as L'Amour de plâtre.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, pl. p. 192, as L'Amour de plâtre.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1462, ill. vol. II, as L'amour de Puget.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 21, cat. no. 134, fig. 11.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 988, ill., as After the Cupid attributed to Puget.
Wadley, Nicholas. "Cézanne Water-colours and Drawings at the Hayward Gallery." The Burlington Magazine 115, no. 849 (December 1973), p. 832, fig. 107.
Rewald, John. "Cézanne's Last Motifs at Aix." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 103, ill. (with photograph of plaster cast).
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 257, ill., as L'Amour en plâtre, c. 1890.
Kitschen, Friederike. Cézanne: Stilleben. Ostfildern-Ruit: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1995, fig. 50.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2004. Exhibition catalogue, p. 86, fig. 33, as Plaster Cupid.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Die Zeichnungen Cézannes: Kleine Formate: Skizzen. Grosse Formate: Aquarelle ohne Farbe." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 225, ill.
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 594, no. 1417, ill. in color, as L'Amour en plâtre, c. 1890.
Simms, Matthew. "Cézanne, Drawing, and the Past." In Cézanne and the past : tradition and creativity [international symposium, Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, 28 January 2013]. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2017, fig. 6.
Ruppen, Fabienne. "Tackling Cezanne's Paper: On the Reconstruction of Loose Sheets." In Reconstructing Cezanne. London: Ridinghouse and Luxembourg & Dayan, 2019. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 7.
Record last updated October 4, 2019. 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 2162)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2676 (accessed on May 3, 2025).
