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Catalogue entry

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

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Edgar Degas, Paris (June 25, 1897);
Degas Collection, Galerie G. Petit, Paris, Mar. 26–27, 1918, no. 9, ill.
Paul Rosenberg, Paris.
Jacques Zoubaloff, Paris;
Zoubaloff Collection, Galerie G. Petit, Paris, June 16–17, 1927, no. 112, ill.
Hugo Perls, Berlin.
Percy Moore Turner, London.
Laing Gallery, Toronto
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Sair, Winnepeg;
Parke-Bernet, New York, Dec. 9, 1960, no. 60, ill.
Mrs. Robert Livingston, New York.
Richard L. Feigen, New York.
Galerie Nichido, Tokyo
Private collection, Japan
Aoyama Unimat Museum, Tokyo
P. & C. Colnaghi, London
Private collection, Japan
Exhibition History
1932 London
Royal Academy of Arts, London, French Art, January 4–March 12, 1932, no number.
1936c Paris
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 29, as La Flèche d'Amour, lent by P.M. Turner.
1939 Cambridge, U.K.
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1939.
1954 Edinburgh and traveling
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.
1974 Tokyo and traveling
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.
1997–98 New York
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.
2008–09 Yokohama and traveling
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 1918a
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 1922
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 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 198, listed.
G 1927
G. "Sammler und Markt: Zoubaloff, Sevadjian u.a." Der Cicerone 19, no. 10 (1927), ill. p. 366, as Venus und Amor.
Guiffrey 1927
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 124, ill. vol. II, as Vénus et l'Amour.
Barnes and de Mazia 1939
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).
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. VI, listed p. 177.
Beucken 1955
Beucken, Jean de. Un portrait de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, [1955], pp. 107, 276.
Schapiro 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 62, ill.
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. 193-194, 199, ill. in b/w fig. 1 p. 195, as Vénus et l'Amour.
Kendall 1988
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 110, ill.
Geelhaar 1989
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 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. 374, ill. vol. 2, as Vénus et l'Amour.
Ives et al 1997
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 2003–04
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 2004
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 221, fig. 106.
Lebensztejn 2017
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 2018
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 2021
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.
Notes

See Daumier's wood engraving published in Le Monde illustré, 10.05.1862, titled "Une salle de l'hôtel Drouot, un jour d'exposition" (incorrectly identified in Rewald).

Vénus et l'Amour, c.1878 (FWN 652). Honoré Daumier,
Honoré Daumier, "Une salle de l'hôtel Drouot, un jour d'exposition," Le Monde illustré, May 10, 1862, wood engraving

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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 April 25, 2024).