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Catalogue entry

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

Keywords

  • Studies
    After sculpture:
Provenance
Maurice Gangnat, Paris
Paul Cassirer, Berlin (Mar. 13, 1928)
Private collection, Netherlands
Mr. and Mrs. Ernst Eichenwald, Berlin and New York (c. 1935);
Dr. Heinz Eichenwald, Dallas;
Christie's, New York, May 1, 2012, no. 6, ill.
Private collection
Exhibition History
1933–34a Rotterdam
Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Schilderijen van Delacroix tot Cézanne en Vincent van Gogh, December 20, 1933–January 21, 1934, no. 6, as Amor.
1934 Bern
Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland, Französische Meister des 19. Jahrhunderts und van Gogh, February 18–April 2, 1934, no. 9, as Amor.
2021a New York
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 1913
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1913, ill. p. 22.
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. 170.
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. 206.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 711, ill. vol. II, as L'Amour en plâtre.
Reff 1960c
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 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. 783, ill. vol. 2, as L'Amour en plâtre.
Marchesseau 2017
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 128, ill.
L'Amour en plâtre, 1894–95 (FWN 688). 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.
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
L'Amour en plâtre, 1894–95 (FWN 688). Proposed reconstruction with FWN 688 - see MoMA 2021, p. 199
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 April 18, 2024).