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 650
La Tentation de saint Antoine
c.1877
Alternate titles: Die Versuchung des hl. Antonius; Femme nues or La tentation de saint Antoine; La tentación de San Antonio; La Tentation de saint-Antoine; La Tentation de Sainte-Antoine; Phantasie; S. Antonii Frestelse; Temptation of St. Anthony; Tentation de saint Antoine; The Temptation of St Anthony; Versuchung des heiligen Antonius
Rewald (300): c.1877; Venturi revised: 1872–74; Cézanne fils: circa 1885; Venturi (241): 1873–77; Rivière: 1873
Oil on canvas
18 1/2 x 22 in. (47 x 56 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 199, Annotated by Cezanne's son: circa 1885
Provenance
Exhibition History
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Rétrospective d'oeuvres de Cézanne, October 1–22, 1907, no. 3, as La Tentation de Sainte-Antoine, lent by Pellerin.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 33, pl. XII, as La Tentation de Sainte-Antoine, lent by Pellerin.
Palais de Tokyo, musée d'Art et d'Essai, Paris, Nouvelles acquisitions du musée d'Orsay 1980-1983, November 28, 1983–September 1984, no. 24, ill., as La Tentation de saint Antoine, c. 1875, not shown between February 21 and May 22, 1984, see exhibition "1984 Madrid".
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 10, pl. 31.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 40, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark, Gloria Victis!: vainqueurs et vaincus dans l'art français: 1848-1910, May 29–October 15, 2000, no. 13, as The Temptation of St Anthony, c. 1875.
Mücsarnok-Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary, Ombres et lumières: quatre siècles de peinture française - Cienie i światła: cztery wieki malarstwa francuskiego, December 16, 2004–February 27, 2005, no. 85, ill., as La Tentation de saint-Antoine. Traveled to: Château Royal - Zamek Królewski, Warsaw, Poland, March 18–June 19, 2005; Musée des Beaux-Arts - Muzeul de Arte Frumoase, Bucharest, Romania, July 12–September 30, 2005.
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Eros in der Kunst der Moderne, October 8, 2006–February 18, 2007, listed p. 211, ill. p. 25, as La Tentation de saint Antoine, c. 1875-77. Traveled to: BA - CA Kunstforum, Vienna, March 1–July 22, 2007.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Paris et les Parisiens (1830-1930) dans les chefs d’œuvre des musées de France, April 25–July 6, 2008, no. 100, ill., as La Tentation de saint Antoine. Traveled to: Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan, July 12–September 7, 2008; Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, September 13–November 3, 2008.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Lágrimas de Eros, October 20, 2009–January 31, 2010, no. 29, as La tentación de San Antonio.
Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy, La rivoluzione dello sguardo: impressionismo e postimpressionismo dal Musée d'Orsay, March 19–July 24, 2011, no. 62, ill., as La Tentation de saint-Antoine.
Palazzo Reale, Milan, Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi, October 20, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 19, ill., as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
National Art Center, Tokyo, Cézanne: Paris-Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012, no. 48, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Sade: attaquer le soleil, September 14, 2014–January 25, 2015, no. 242, ill., listed p. 326, as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 10, ill.
Published References
Bernard, Émile. "Paul Cézanne." Les Hommes d'aujourd'hui 8, no. 387 (1891), (described).
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Paul Cézanne." In Impressionisten: Guys, Manet, van Gogh, Pissarro, Cézanne. Munich and Leipzig: R. Piper & Co., 1907, ill. p. 189, as Phantasie, c. 1880.
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1913, pl. 166, as Versuchung des heiligen Antonius.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. opposite p. 120.
Coquiot, Gustave. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Ollendorf, 1919, p. 214, ill. p. 160 (opposite), as La Tentation de Sainte-Antoine.
Deri, Max. Die Malerei im XIX. Jahrhundert: entwicklungsgeschichtliche Darstellung auf psychologischer Grundlage. Berlin: Paul Cassirer, 1919, pp. 205–06, pl. 48.
Fahraeus, Klas. "Paul Cézanne." Ord och Bild 4 (1919), p. 413, ill., as S. Antonii Frestelse.
Bernard, Émile. "La technique de Paul Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 1, no. 8 (December 1920), ill. p. 275, as Tentation de saint Antoine.
Fontainas, André and Louis Vauxcelles. "Paul Cézanne." Histoire générale de l'art français de la Révolution à nos jours: la peinture, la gravure, le dessin. Paris: Librairie de France, 1922, ill. p. 227, as Tentation de saint Antoine.
Glaser, Curt. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1922, pl. 7, as Versuchung des heiligen Antonius, c. 1880.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 135, as Versuchung des heiligen Antonius, c. 1880.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 200, listed.
Tabarant, Adolphe. "Le cinquantenaire de l'impressionnisme." La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe vol. 7, no. 5 (May 1924), ill. p. 244, as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
Fry, Roger. "Le développement de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 7, no. 12 (December 1926), ill. p. 418, as Tentation de saint Antoine.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 58, as Versuchung des heiligen Antonius.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, pp. 85-86, fig. 52, pl. XXXIX.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XXXII.
Burroughs, Alan. "David and Cézanne, Presenting the Case of Thought versus Feeling." The Arts 16, no. 1 (September 1929), p. 101, ill.
L'Art sacré: revue mensuelle. Special number, Cézanne. Paris, May 1936, fig. 5 p. 12, as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
Roger-Marx, Claude. "Les Tentations de Saint-Antoine." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 19, nos. 1-2 (January–February 1936), p. 44, ill. p. 48, as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 241, ill. vol. II, as La Tentation de saint-Antoine.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 60, p. 181, ill.
Seznec, Jean. "The Temptation of St. Anthony in Art." Magazine of Art 40 (March 1947), p. 92, ill.
Jedlicka, Gotthard. Cézanne. Berne: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1948, fig. 15, as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 85, pl. XXXIX fig. 52, as Temptation of St. Anthony.
Rostrup, Haavard. "Den brændende tornebusk." Meddelelser fra Ny Carlesberg Glyptotek 14 (1957), p. 19, ill.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 25.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne, Flaubert, St. Anthony, and the Queen of Sheba." The Art Bulletin 44, no. 2 (June 1962), pp. 113–25, fig. 3.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 44, ill.
Ballas, Guila. "Daumier, Corot, Papety, et Delacroix, inspirateurs de Cézanne." Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français (1974), pp. 197 and 199, ill. in b/w fig. 8 p. 196, as La Tentation de saint Antoine, 1873-1877.
Ponente, Nello, ed. Cézanne e le avanguardie. Rome: Officina Edizioni, 1981, Messing: pl. 8.
Catalogue sommaire illustré des nouvelles acquisitions du Musée d’Orsay: 1980-1983. Lacambre, Geneviève et Thiébaut Philippe, publication directors, coordination. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1983, p. 16, no. 24, ill., as La Tentation de saint Antoine, c. 1875.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 21.
Ely, Bruno. "Cézanne, L'Ecole de dessin et le Musée d'Aix." In Cézanne au Musée d'Aix. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1984. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 189.
Gache-Patin, Sylvie. "Musée d'Orsay, Galerie du Jeu de Paume: douze œuvres de Cézanne de l'ancienne collection Pellerin." La Revue du Louvre et des musées de France 34, no. 2 (1984), pp. 133-136, fig. 6.
Anciens et Nouveaux: Choix d'oeuvres acquises par l'état ou avec sa participation de 1981 à 1985. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1985. Exhibition catalogue, p. 324, ill.
Compin, Isabelle et Anne Roquebert. Catalogue sommaire illustré des peintures du musée du Louvre et du musée d'Orsay. 3, École Française, A-K. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1986, p. 116, ill., as La Tentation de saint Antoine, c. 1875.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "Literature, Music and Cézanne's Early Subjects." In Cézanne: The Early Years 1859-1872. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1988. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 26.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 78, ill.
Paas Sigrun. "Betrachtungen zu Blau in der Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts." In Blau: Farbe der Ferne, Hans Gercke (editor). Heidelberg: Das Wunderhorn, 1990. Exhibition catalogue, p. 161-163, as Die Versuchung des hl. Antonius.
Bozal, Valeriano. "Paul Cézanne: la mirada es le leguaje." La Balsa de la Medusa (Madrid) 36 (1995), p. 90, ill. p. 91, as La tentación de San Antonio, 1873-75.
"Paul Cézanne: el ermitaño tentado." Lettra inernacional (Madrid) 43 (March-April 1196), ill. p. 63, as La tentación de San Antonio, 1873-1877.
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 300, ill. vol. 2, as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 15, fig. 7, as The Temptation of St Anthony.
Harvey, Benjamin. "Cézanne and Zola: A Reassessment of 'L'Eternel féminin.'" Burlington, vol. 140, no. 1142 (May 1998), p. 312, fig. 17.
Coutagne, Denis. "Cézanne au fil de l'eau." In Au fil de l'eau. Aix-en-Provence: Ville d'Aix-en-Provence, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 17, as La Tentation de saint Antoine, with erroneous Rewald no. 240.
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, pp. 122–23, 200, fig. 31, as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 309, no. 257, ill., as La Tentation de saint Antoine, 1873-75.
Mori, Gioia. "'La letteratura si esprime con astrazioni mentre il pittore concretizza.' Gli scrittori di Cézanne: Zola, Balzac e Flaubert." In Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni. Milan: Mazzotta, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 87.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 66, fig. 2.13, as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 27, fig. 12.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Motive: Versuch einer neuen Ordnung." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 206, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 88; vol. 2, p. 78, as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
Puelles Romero, Luis. "Ilusiones de eros. Tensiones del cuerpo y las imágenes." Arte y Parte: revista de arte (Mardrid), no. 84 (December 2009-January 2010), p. 28, fig. 13 p. 29, as La tentación de San Antonio.
Coutagne, Denis. "Le Femme exposée." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 90, fig. 41, as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne abstraction faite. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2011, p. 182, fig. 124.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 227, pl. 107.
Gottlieb, Lennart. Modernism: Reinventing Painting, 1908–41. Aarhus: ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 182, fig. 125.
Leeman, Fred. Emile Bernard (1868–1941). Paris: Wildenstein Institute and Citadelles & Mazenod, 2013, p. 353, fig. 83.
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 272, ill.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 245, ill., as Femme nues or La tentation de saint Antoine.
Notes
Gustave Flaubert's Tentation de saint Antoine was published in 1874 and probably inspired this work. On this subject, see Reff (1962).
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Tentation de saint Antoine, c.1877 (FWN 650)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=298 (accessed on December 9, 2024).
