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 688
L'Amour en plâtre
1894–95
Alternate title: Amor
Rewald (783): 1894–95; Venturi revised: c.1895; Venturi (711): c.1895; Cooper: 1894–95
Oil on canvas
22 3/8 x 9 13/16 in. (57 x 25 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 115, Annotated by Cezanne's son: circa 1890
Private collection
Provenance
Private collection, Netherlands
Private collection
Exhibition History
Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Schilderijen van Delacroix tot Cézanne en Vincent van Gogh, December 20, 1933–January 21, 1934, no. 6, as Amor.
Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland, Französische Meister des 19. Jahrhunderts und van Gogh, February 18–April 2, 1934, no. 9, as Amor.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 242 (reconstructed image with FWN 683 [pl. 241], p. 199), Private collection.
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. 170.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 206.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 711, ill. vol. II, as L'Amour en plâtre.
Reff, Theodore. "Book Reviews: Cézanne und die alten Meister by Gertrude Berthold." The Art Bulletin, vol. 42, no. 2 (June 1960), p. 149, Appendix, V. 711.
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. 783, ill. vol. 2, as L'Amour en plâtre.
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 128, ill.
Putto, copy after François Du Quesnoy (in Cézanne's time attributed to Pierre Puget), plaster cast, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. Identical to the one which Cezanne had in his Les Lauves studio.
Photo: Erik Cornelius; © Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
Proposed reconstruction with FWN 688 - see MoMA 2021, p. 199
Related work
Record last updated June 6, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Amour en plâtre, 1894–95 (FWN 688)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=760 (accessed on December 13, 2024).
