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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
Erik Cornelius; © Nationalmuseum
FWN 2163
L'Amour en plâtre
c.1890
Alternate titles: After the Cupid attributed to Puget; L'Amour de Puget; L'enfant marchant; Plaster Cast of a Putto; Putto I
Chappuis (989); Venturi (1460): 1888–95
Graphite on laid paper
19 3/16 x 12 3/4 in. (48.7 x 32.4 cm)
Provenance
Estate of Paul Cezanne
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (1907)
Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Lugano (April 5, 1913)
Theodor Stoperan, Berlin;
Stoperan Collection, Auktion Graupe, Berlin, Nov. 2–3, 1928, no. 79, ill.
Max Silberberg, Breslau
S[imon] & S[ilberberg] Collection, Galerie G. Petit, June 9, 1932, no. 2 verso
Private collection, Paris
Sam Salz, New York
Parke-Bernet, New York, Mar. 16, 1944, no. 28
Parke-Bernet, New York, Mar. 30–31, 1949, no. 27
Harry N. Abrams Family Collection, New York
Angela Rosengart, Lucerne
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (1992)
Exhibition History
1927e Berlin
Galerie Flechtheim, Berlin, Cézanne, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen; Bronzen von Edgar Degas, May 19–June 16, 1927, no. 41, or possibly no. 42, as Putto I, for sale.1997–98 Stockholm
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Cézanne i blickpunkten, October 17, 1997–January 11, 1998, no. 30, ill., pp. 92–93 (dated c. 1890).2007–08 Atlanta and traveling
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Inspiring Impressionism: The Impressionists and the Art of the Past, October 16, 2007–January 13, 2008, no. 14, ill. p. 64, as Plaster Cast of a Putto. Traveled to: Art Museum, Denver, February 23–May 25, 2008; Art Museum, Seattle, June 15–September 21, 2008.Published References
Vauxcelles 1926
Vauxcelles, Louis. "A propos de Cézanne [Hommage à Paul Cézanne]." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 37 (July 1, 1926), p. 486, ill., as L'Amour en plâtre.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1460, 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. 140, ill.Chappuis 1973
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 989, ill., as After the Cupid attributed to Puget.Granath 1992
Granath, Olle. "Paul Cézanne. En stig till minnet: inköp med medel ur Kersti Richthoffs fond." Nationalmuseum Bulletin 16, no. 2 (1992).Kitschen 1995
Kitschen, Friederike. Cézanne: Stilleben. Ostfildern-Ruit: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1995, fig. 48, pp. 137, 142.Kropmanns and Fleckner 2001
Kropmanns, Peter, and Uwe Fleckner. "Von kontinentaler Bedeutung: Gottlieb Friedrich Reber und seine Sammlungen." In Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: französische Kunst in deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, edited by Andrea Pophanken and Felix Billeter. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001, listed p. 388.Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 432, ill., as L'enfant marchant.
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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Additional material / links
- collection.nationalmuseum.se (http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=35627&viewType=detailView)
Record last updated February 22, 2025. 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 2163)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2677 (accessed on May 3, 2025).
