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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)
Catalogue entry
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)
Provenance
Walther Halvorsen, Oslo
Reid & Lefèvre, London (1935)
The British Museum, London (1935)
Exhibition History
1965c London
Arts Council of Great Britain, St. James's Square Gallery, London, Sixty Years of Patronage, September–October 1965.1973 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. 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, 1973.1978 Tübingen
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.1984b London
British Museum, London, Master Drawings & Watercolours, 1984, no. 147.1988–89a 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. 56.1991 Bristol
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 1992.1995–96 Paris and traveling
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, 1996.1997–98 Stockholm
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Cézanne i blickpunkten, October 17, 1997–January 11, 1998, no. 28, ill., pp. 88–89 (dated c. 1890).1998–99 Sydney
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.2003–04 London
Hayward, London, Saved!100 Years of the NACF, October 2003–January 2004, no. 48.2005–06 New York
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, 2006.2016 Poole
Poole Museum, Lines of thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to now, September 3–November 6, 2016, no. 31.2017 Hull
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 1921b
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, p. 117, pl. p. 116, as L'Amour de plâtre.Gasquet 1926
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, pl. p. 192, as L'Amour de plâtre.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1462, 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. 134, fig. 11.Chappuis 1973
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 1973
Wadley, Nicholas. "Cézanne Water-colours and Drawings at the Hayward Gallery." The Burlington Magazine 115, no. 849 (December 1973), p. 832, fig. 107.Rewald 1977b
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 1986b
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 257, ill., as L'Amour en plâtre, c. 1890.Verdi 1992
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 146, fig. 126.Kitschen 1995
Kitschen, Friederike. Cézanne: Stilleben. Ostfildern-Ruit: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1995, fig. 50.Armstrong 2004
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 2005d
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 2011
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 2017b
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 2019
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.
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.
Photo: Erik Cornelius; © Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
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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 15, 2024).
