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 660
Léda au cygne
c.1880 (possibly later)
Alternate titles: Le Cygne et Leda; Leda; Leda and the Swan; Leda et le cygne; Leda mit dem Schwan
Rewald (447): 1880 (possibly later); Venturi revised: 1888–90; Venturi (550): 1886–90; Rivière: 1868 and c.1877; Vollard: 1868
Oil on canvas
23 1/2 x 29 1/2 in. (59.7 x 74.9 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3552, huile; Leda et son cygne. femme nue couchée dont la main est mordillée par un cygne, 60 x 75 cm (150 frs)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895.
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Exposition Cézanne, May 9–June 10, 1898, no. 58, as Le Cygne et Leda.
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Rétrospective d'oeuvres de Cézanne, October 1–22, 1907, no. 11, as Leda, lent by Pellerin.
Paul Rosenberg, Paris, L'art français au XIXe siècle, 1919.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation, May 2–August 15, 1993, no number, pp. 106–09, ill pp. 107, 109 (detail). Traveled to: Musèe d'Orsay, Paris, November 6, 1993–January 2, 1994; National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, January 21–April 3, 1994; Kimbell Art Museum, Forth Worth, Texas, April 24–August 16, 1994; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, September 17–December 31, 1994; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, January 29–April 1995; Haus der Kunst, Munich, June 23–October 22, 1995.
Published References
Borgmeyer, Charles Louis. The Master Impressionists. Chicago: The Fine Arts Press, 1913, p. 275, ill., as Leda, Collection Pellerin.
Stuart, Evelyn Marie. "Cézanne and His Place in Impressionism." Fine Arts Journal 35, no. 5 (May 1917), p. 325, ill., as Leda.
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Munich: Kurt Wolfe Verlag, 1921, ill. opp. p. 34, as Leda mit dem Schwan, dated 1868.
Gasquet, Joachim. "Cézanne à l'atelier." L'Amour de l'art 2, 10 (October 1921), ill. p. 334, as Léda.
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 Léda.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, pp. 197, 206, listed, ill. opp. p. 26, as Léda au cygne, Pellerin.
Zervos, Christian. "Les Problèmes de la jeune peinture: Le retour au sujet est-il probable?" Cahiers d'Art, nos. 3 and 4 (1931), p. 193, ill.
Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1936, fig. 47.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 550, ill. vol. II, as Léda au cygne.
Vollard, Ambroise. En écoutant Cézanne, Degas, Renoir. Paris: B. Grasset, 1938, p. 23, as Léda au cygne.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 68, p. 185, ill.
Schapiro, Meyer. "The Apples of Cézanne: An Essay on the Meaning of Still-Life." Art News Annual 34 (1968), pp. 39–40, pl. 15.
Church, Barton. "A Sonata – A Painting: A Comparison." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 3, no. 1 (Spring 1972), pp. 63–71, pl. 21.
De Mazia, Violette. "Three Aspects of Art." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 6, no. 2 (Autumn1975), pp. 38, 55–56, pl. 40 and 56 (detail).
De Mazia, Violette. "Naïvété." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 7, no. 2 (Autumn 1976), p. 72, pl. 15.
De Mazia, Violette. "E Pluribus Unum – Cont'd: Part III." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 8, no. 1 (Spring 1977), p. 6, pl. 110.
De Mazia, Violette. "E Pluribus Unum, Cont'd: Part IV." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 8, no. 2 (Autumn 1977), pp. 9, 32, pl. 88.
De Mazia, Violette. "Transferred Values: Part I – Introduction." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 9, no. 2 (Autumn 1978), p. 5, pl. 86.
De Mazia, Violette. "Transferred Values: Part II." Vistas 1, no. 1 (Spring–Summer 1979), pp. 14–15, pl. 13.
Rochberg, Gene. "Reflections on Metaphor and Transferred Values in Poetry and Painting." Vistas 1, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 1979), pp. 76–77, pl. 13.
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. 187, with painting by Greuze.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. "Catalogue des oeuvres de Cézanne conservées au musée Granet d'Aix-en-Provence." In Cézanne au Musée d'Aix. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1984, ill. p. 215.
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Du plongeon aux baigneuses." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 52, 1880-82.
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. 447, ill. vol. 2, as Léda au cygne.
Harvey, Benjamin. "Cézanne and Zola: A Reassessment of 'L'Eternel féminin.'" Burlington, vol. 140, no. 1142 (May 1998), p. 317, fig. 26.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Bathers." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 246, fig. 3, as Léda au cygne.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 59, fig. 2.6, as Léda au cygne.
Breidbach, Angela. Anschauungsraum bei Cézanne. Cézanne und Helmholtz. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2003, p. 93, ill.
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. "Une source oubliée de Cézanne." Les Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne, no. 86 (Winter 2003–04), p. 83, ill. fig. 1 p. 82, as Leda et le cygne.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 22, fig. 9.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézanne: Vollendet, Unvollendet." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel,
Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 276, ill.
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. Études cézanniennes. Paris: Flammarion, 2006, p. 46, fig. 13, ill. on cover, as Léda au cygne, dated 1880.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 146; vol. 2, p. 110, as Léda au cygne.
Coutagne, Denis. "Quand Cézanne lit 'Nana' de Zola." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 102, fig. 45, as Léda au cygne.
Dolkart, Judith, Martha Lucy. The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2012, p. 79, ill. p. 76, comments by Martha Lucy.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 410, pl. 179.
Coutagne, Denis. "Ce que Cézanne a dit et vu Courbet." In Courbet/Cézanne, La vérité en peinture. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 63, fig. 1.
Nagaï, Takanori. "Cézanne and Jas de Bouffan." In Le "basho" dans l'art moderne français. Tokyo: Sangensha, 2016, p. 110, ill.
Eiling, Alexander, Anett Göthe, Astrid Reuter, Bettina Kaufmann, Eva-Maria Höllerer, Juliane Betz and Julia Lachenmann. "Catalog." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 240 fig. 2.
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. 2.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 274, ill., as Léda.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, no. 16, pp. 116–19, as Leda and the Swan (catalogue notes by N. Locke).
Shutova, Anya, and Barbara Buckley. "Materials and Techniques: A Study of Cézanne's Paintings in the Barnes Foundation." In Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, fig. 4a (fig. 4b an X-radiograph of the painting, and fig. 24, detail of repetitive constructive brushstroke).
Nagaï, Takanori. Truth in Panting: The Meaning of Cezanne's Practices for Modernizing Society. Tokyo: Sangesha Publishers Inc., 2022, pl. 37.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Léda au cygne, c.1880 (possibly later) (FWN 660)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=438 (accessed on March 15, 2025).
