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Catalogue entry

FWN 689
L'Amour en plâtre
1894–95
Alternate title: L'Amour en plâtre (version bistre)
Rewald (784): 1894–95; Venturi revised: c.1895; Venturi (1609): 1895–1900; Cooper: 1894–95
Oil on canvas
17 1/2 x 12 1/8 in. (44.5 x 30.8 cm)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4194, Étude d'après l'antique, 47 x 30 cm (25 frs)
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA (Gift of Frederick B. Deknatel) (1964.72)

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Galerie E. Bignou, Paris
Barnes Foundation, Merion (July 1, 1939)
Knoedler Galleries, New York (June 7, 1950)
Frederick B. Deknatel, Cambridge, MA (Dec. 1951);
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA (1964)
Exhibition History
1936g New York
Bignou Gallery, New York, Paul Cézanne, November–December 1936, no. 24, as L'Amour en plâtre (version bistre), the title erroneously refers to Venturi 1608.
1937 Detroit
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Cézanne, January 5, 1937.
1937a Montreal
W. Scott & Sons, Montreal, Paintings by French Masters, February 1937.
1937b New York
Bignou Gallery, New York, Cézanne and Renoir, February 1937.
1940e New York
Bignou Gallery, New York, Paintings and Watercolors by Cézanne, April 1–26, 1940, no. 2, as L'Amour en plâtre, possibly V1608 (the "version bistre").
1954 Providence
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, Cézanne, September 23–October 24, 1954, no. 19, lent by Deknatel.
1998–99 Sydney
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 64, ill., as L'Amour en plâtre, 1894-95, lent by Fogg Art Museum.
2017–18 Karlsruhe
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 73, ill.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1609, ill. vol. II, as L'Amour en plâtre.
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, listed p. 154.
Mortimer 1985
Mortimer, Kristin A. Harvard University Art Museums, A Guide to the Collections. New York: Abbeville Press, 1985, p. 196, no. 225, ill.
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. 784, ill. vol. 2, as L'Amour en plâtre.
Schmidt 2004a
Schmidt, Bertram. Cézannes Lehre. Kiel: Ludwig, 2004, fig. 57.
L'Amour en plâtre, 1894–95 (FWN 689). 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

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Record last updated February 22, 2025. 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 689)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=761 (accessed on May 1, 2025).