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 652
Vénus et l'Amour
c.1878
Alternate titles: La Flèche d'Amour; Venus und Amor
Rewald (374): c.1878; Venturi revised: 1872–74; Venturi (124): 1870–73; Rivière: c.1868; Cooper: probably c.1874; Gowing: c 1873 (Edinburgh)
Oil on canvas
8 5/16 x 8 5/16 in. (21 x 21 cm)
Private collection, Japan
Provenance
Private collection, Japan
Private collection, Japan
Exhibition History
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 29, as La Flèche d'Amour, lent by P.M. Turner.
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1939.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 13, as Vénus et l'Amour, c. 1873, lent by the Trustees of the late P.M. Turner. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 20. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, October 1, 1997–February 11, 1998, no. 108, not in the show.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Homage to Cézanne: His Influence on the Development of Twentieth Century Painting, November 15, 2008–January 25, 2009, no. 37, ill., as Vénus et l'Amour, lent by Aoyama Unimat Museum. Traveled to: Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan, February 7–April 12, 2009.
Published References
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 86.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 94, as Venus und Amor, c. 1867.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 198, listed.
G. "Sammler und Markt: Zoubaloff, Sevadjian u.a." Der Cicerone 19, no. 10 (1927), ill. p. 366, as Venus und Amor.
Guiffrey, Jean. "La vente Zoubaloff." La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe (Paris), vol. 10, no. 5 (May 1927), ill. p. 232, as Vénus et l'Amour.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 124, ill. vol. II, as Vénus et l'Amour.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 53, p. 184, ill. (analysis pp. 316–17).
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 62, ill.
Ballas, Guila. "Daumier, Corot, Papety, et Delacroix, inspirateurs de Cézanne." Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français (1974), pp. 193-194, 199, ill. in b/w fig. 1 p. 195, as Vénus et l'Amour.
Geelhaar, Christian. "The Painters Who Had the Right Eyes: On the reception of Cézanne's Bathers." In Paul Cézanne: The Bathers. Basel: Kunstmuseum Basel, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, p. 284, fig. 213, as Vénus et l'Amour.
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. 374, ill. vol. 2, as Vénus et l'Amour.
Ives, Colta, Susan Stein, Julie Steiner with Ann Dumas, Rebecca Rabinow and Gary Tinterow. The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, A Summary Catalogue. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997. Exhibition catalogue, p. 16, no. 108, ill.
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. "Une source oubliée de Cézanne." Les Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne, no. 86 (Winter 2003–04), pp. 89-90, ill. fig. 12 p. 91, as Vénus et l'Amour.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 221, fig. 106.
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. "Cézanne copiste et le Nu aux poires." 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. 4.
Salmon, Dimitri. Le "Saint Joseph charpentier" de Georges de La Tour: un don au Louvre de Percy Moore Turner. Gand: Snoeck, 2018, p. 416.
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. "Cezanne and the Russian Avant-Garde (as Seen from Paris)." In Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 3.
Record last updated August 10, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Vénus et l'Amour, c.1878 (FWN 652)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=370 (accessed on May 2, 2025).
