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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
Musée d'Orsay, Paris (accepted by the French government in lieu of Inheritance Tax, 1982) (RF 1982 46)

Keywords

Provenance
Arsène Alexandre, Paris;
Alexandre Collection, Galerie G. Petit, Paris, May 16–19, 1903, no. 8, ill.
Eugène Blot, Paris
Auguste Pellerin, Paris;
Jean-Victor Pellerin, Paris;
Musée d'Orsay, Paris (1982);
Musée du Louvre, galerie du Jeu de Paume, Paris (1982-1984);
Musée d'Orsay, Paris (1986)
Exhibition History
1907a Paris
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.
1936c Paris
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 33, pl. XII, as La Tentation de Sainte-Antoine, lent by Pellerin.
1983–84 Paris
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".
1984 Madrid
Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Paul Cézanne, March 9–April 1984, no. 13.
1989 Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 10, pl. 31.
1995–96 Paris and traveling
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.
2000 Copenhagen
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.
2004–05 Budapest and traveling
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.
2006–07 Riehen/Basel and traveling
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.
2008 Tokyo and traveling
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.
2009–10 Madrid
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Lágrimas de Eros, October 20, 2009–January 31, 2010, no. 29, as La tentación de San Antonio.
2011 Rovereto
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.
2011–12 Milan
Palazzo Reale, Milan, Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi, October 20, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 19, ill., as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
2012 Tokyo
National Art Center, Tokyo, Cézanne: Paris-Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012, no. 48, ill.
2014–15a Paris
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.
2017–18 Karlsruhe
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 10, ill.
Published References
Bernard 1891
Bernard, Émile. "Paul Cézanne." Les Hommes d'aujourd'hui 8, no. 387 (1891), (described).
Meier-Graefe 1907
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.
Meier-Graefe 1910
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1910, ill. p. 21.
Burger 1913
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1913, pl. 166, as Versuchung des heiligen Antonius.
Meier-Graefe 1913
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1913, ill. p. 21.
Meier-Graefe 1918a
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.
Burger 1919
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1919, p. 185.
Coquiot 1919
Coquiot, Gustave. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Ollendorf, 1919, p. 214, ill. p. 160 (opposite), as La Tentation de Sainte-Antoine.
Deri 1919
Deri, Max. Die Malerei im XIX. Jahrhundert: entwicklungsgeschichtliche Darstellung auf psychologischer Grundlage. Berlin: Paul Cassirer, 1919, pp. 205–06, pl. 48.
Fahraeus 1919
Fahraeus, Klas. "Paul Cézanne." Ord och Bild 4 (1919), p. 413, ill., as S. Antonii Frestelse.
Bernard 1920b
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.
Zeisho 1921
Zeisho, Atzouji. Paul Cézanne. Tokyo: Rakuyodo, Taisho, 1921, fig. 12.
Fontainas and Vauxcelles 1922
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 1922
Glaser, Curt. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1922, pl. 7, as Versuchung des heiligen Antonius, c. 1880.
Meier-Graefe 1922
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.
Wedderkop 1922b
Wedderkop, Harro von. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1922, ill.
Burger 1923
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1923, pl. 183.
Meier-Graefe 1923
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper, 1923, ill. p. 23.
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 200, listed.
Salmon 1923
Salmon, André. Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Stock, 1923, pl. 7.
Tabarant 1924c
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 1926
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 1927
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 58, as Versuchung des heiligen Antonius.
Fry 1927a
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, pp. 85-86, fig. 52, pl. XXXIX.
Meier-Graefe 1927a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XXXII.
Burroughs 1929
Burroughs, Alan. "David and Cézanne, Presenting the Case of Thought versus Feeling." The Arts 16, no. 1 (September 1929), p. 101, ill.
Fry 1929
Fry, Roger. "Cézannes Udvikling." Samleren 6 (July, August, September 1929), p. 132, ill.
D'Ors 1930
Ors, Eugenio d.' Paul Cézanne. Paris: Editions des Chroniques du Jour, 1930, pl. 35.
L'Art sacré 1936
L'Art sacré: revue mensuelle. Special number, Cézanne. Paris, May 1936, fig. 5 p. 12, as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
Raynal 1936
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. XIV p. 41.
Roger-Marx 1936
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 241, ill. vol. II, as La Tentation de saint-Antoine.
Huyghe 1936d
Huyghe, René. Cézanne. Paris: Plon, Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1936, pl. 26.
Barnes and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 60, p. 181, ill.
Seznec 1947
Seznec, Jean. "The Temptation of St. Anthony in Art." Magazine of Art 40 (March 1947), p. 92, ill.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. VI, listed pp. 176-177.
Jedlicka 1948
Jedlicka, Gotthard. Cézanne. Berne: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1948, fig. 15, as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
Guerry 1950
Guerry, Liliane. Cézanne et l'expression de l'espace. Paris: Flammarion, 1950, pl. 4.
Fry 1952
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 85, pl. XXXIX fig. 52, as Temptation of St. Anthony.
Badt 1956
Badt, Kurt. Die Kunst Cézannes. Munich: Prestel, 1956, pp. 84, 240, pl. 21.
Rostrup 1957
Rostrup, Haavard. "Den brændende tornebusk." Meddelelser fra Ny Carlesberg Glyptotek 14 (1957), p. 19, ill.
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 25.
Reff 1962b
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne, Flaubert, St. Anthony, and the Queen of Sheba." The Art Bulletin 44, no. 2 (June 1962), pp. 113–25, fig. 3.
Gombrich 1963
Gombrich, Ernst H. Meditations on a Hobby Horse. London: Phaidon, 1963, fig. 22.
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Schapiro 1973
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Ballas 1974
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 1981
Ponente, Nello, ed. Cézanne e le avanguardie. Rome: Officina Edizioni, 1981, Messing: pl. 8.
Musée d'Orsay 1983
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 1983a
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 21.
Ely 1984
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.
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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.
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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.
Rewald 1986b
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Lewis 1988
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Düchting 1989
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Paas 1990
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 1995
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.
Cahn 1995b
Cahn, Isabelle. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 1995, p. 57, ill.
Navarro 1996
"Paul Cézanne: el ermitaño tentado." Lettra inernacional (Madrid) 43 (March-April 1196), ill. p. 63, as La tentación de San Antonio, 1873-1877.
Rewald 1996
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 1996
Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 15, fig. 7, as The Temptation of St Anthony.
Harvey 1998
Harvey, Benjamin. "Cézanne and Zola: A Reassessment of 'L'Eternel féminin.'" Burlington, vol. 140, no. 1142 (May 1998), p. 312, fig. 17.
Coutagne 2000
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.
Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 136, fig. 83.
Platzman 2001
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, pp. 122–23, 200, fig. 31, as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
Ballas 2002
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 2002
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 2003
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 2004
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 27, fig. 12.
Feilchenfeldt 2005c
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 2008
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 2009
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 2011b
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 2011d
Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne abstraction faite. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2011, p. 182, fig. 124.
Colrat 2013
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 227, pl. 107.
Gottlieb 2013
Gottlieb, Lennart. Modernism: Reinventing Painting, 1908–41. Aarhus: ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 182, fig. 125.
Leeman 2013
Leeman, Fred. Emile Bernard (1868–1941). Paris: Wildenstein Institute and Citadelles & Mazenod, 2013, p. 353, fig. 83.
Marchesseau 2017
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 272, ill.
Dauberville 2020
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 April 18, 2024).