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Catalogue entry

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)
Vollard archives: photo no. 392, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1868
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (BF36)

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Auguste Pellerin, Paris (March 16, 1900);
Jean-Victor Pellerin, Paris
Paul Rosenberg, Paris and New York
[Galerie E. Bignou, Paris]
Barnes Foundation, Merion and Philadelphia (January 8, 1937)
Exhibition History
1895 Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895.
1898 Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Exposition Cézanne, May 9–June 10, 1898, no. 58, as Le Cygne et Leda.
1907a Paris
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Rétrospective d'oeuvres de Cézanne, October 1–22, 1907, no. 11, as Leda, lent by Pellerin.
1919 Paris
Paul Rosenberg, Paris, L'art français au XIXe siècle, 1919.
1993–95 Washington, D.C. and traveling
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 1913
Borgmeyer, Charles Louis. The Master Impressionists. Chicago: The Fine Arts Press, 1913, p. 275, ill., as Leda, Collection Pellerin.
Stuart 1917
Stuart, Evelyn Marie. "Cézanne and His Place in Impressionism." Fine Arts Journal 35, no. 5 (May 1917), p. 325, ill., as Leda.
Vollard 1921
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Munich: Kurt Wolfe Verlag, 1921, ill. opp. p. 34, as Leda mit dem Schwan, dated 1868.
Gasquet 1921a
Gasquet, Joachim. "Cézanne à l'atelier." L'Amour de l'art 2, 10 (October 1921), ill. p. 334, as Léda.
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 Léda.
Klingsor 1923
Klingsor, Tristan L. Cézanne. Paris: Rieder, 1923, p. 14.
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, pp. 197, 206, listed, ill. opp. p. 26, as Léda au cygne, Pellerin.
Fry 1929
Fry, Roger. "Cézannes Udvikling." Samleren 6 (July, August, September 1929), p. 99, ill.
D'Ors 1930
Ors, Eugenio d.' Paul Cézanne. Paris: Editions des Chroniques du Jour, 1930, pl. 34.
Zervos 1931
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 1936
Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1936, fig. 47.
Raynal 1936
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. VI p. 33.
D'Ors 1936a
Ors, Eugenio d.' Paul Cézanne. New York: E. Weyhe, 1936, pl. 47.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 550, ill. vol. II, as Léda au cygne.
Vollard 1938
Vollard, Ambroise. En écoutant Cézanne, Degas, Renoir. Paris: B. Grasset, 1938, p. 23, as Léda au cygne.
Barnes and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 68, p. 185, ill.
Schapiro 1968
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 1972
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.
Elgar 1975
Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 95.
De Mazia 1975b
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 1976c
De Mazia, Violette. "Naïvété." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 7, no. 2 (Autumn 1976), p. 72, pl. 15.
De Mazia 1977a
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 1977b
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 1978
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 1979
De Mazia, Violette. "Transferred Values: Part II." Vistas 1, no. 1 (Spring–Summer 1979), pp. 14–15, pl. 13.
Rochberg 1979
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 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. 187, with painting by Greuze.
Coutagne et al. 1984a
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 1995
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Du plongeon aux baigneuses." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 52, 1880-82.
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. 447, ill. vol. 2, as Léda au cygne.
Harvey 1998
Harvey, Benjamin. "Cézanne and Zola: A Reassessment of 'L'Eternel féminin.'" Burlington, vol. 140, no. 1142 (May 1998), p. 317, fig. 26.
Feilchenfeldt 2000b
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Bathers." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 246, fig. 3, as Léda au cygne.
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. 59, fig. 2.6, as Léda au cygne.
Breidbach 2003
Breidbach, Angela. Anschauungsraum bei Cézanne. Cézanne und Helmholtz. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2003, p. 93, 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), p. 83, ill. fig. 1 p. 82, as Leda et le cygne.
Andersen 2004
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 22, fig. 9.
Feilchenfeldt 2005h
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 2006
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. Études cézanniennes. Paris: Flammarion, 2006, p. 46, fig. 13, ill. on cover, as Léda au cygne, dated 1880.
Machotka 2008
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 2011c
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 and Lucy 2012
Dolkart, Judith, Martha Lucy. The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2012, p. 79, ill. p. 76, comments by Martha Lucy.
Colrat 2013
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 410, pl. 179.
Coutagne 2013c
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 2016
Nagaï, Takanori. "Cézanne and Jas de Bouffan." In Le "basho" dans l'art moderne français. Tokyo: Sangensha, 2016, p. 110, ill.
Eiling et al. 2017
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 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. 2.
Dauberville 2020
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, Ireson and Patry 2021
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 and Buckley 2021
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 2022a
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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Record last updated October 12, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
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 April 20, 2024).