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 630
La Tentation de saint Antoine
c.1874
Alternate titles: La Tentation de Saint Antoine; La tentation de saint Antoine or Femmes nues; La Tentation de saint-Antoine
Rewald (240): c.1874; Venturi revised: 1872–74; Cézanne fils: 1875–80; Venturi (240): 1873–75; Rivière: 1870 (1933); Vollard: 1873; Cooper: 1874–75; Gowing: c.1873 (Burlington)
Oil on canvas
9 13/16 x 13 in. (25 x 33 cm)
Signed lower right: P. Cezanne
Vollard A stockbook: no. 4136, huile: Tentation de St Antoine. Le saint est assaillé par-dessus par un diable en vêtements rouges qui lui montre une femme dévêtue et des anges, 24 x 33 cm (800 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 155, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1875 ; in another hand: Hessel
Provenance
Private collection, Neuilly;
Private collection
Exhibition History
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 35, lent by private collection, Paris.
Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama, Ibaraki, Japan, Cézanne, October 4–November 30, 1997, no. 6, ill.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 49, ill., as La Tentation de saint Antoine, lent by Kasam Nichido. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Homage to Cézanne: His Influence on the Development of Twentieth Century Painting, November 15, 2008–January 25, 2009, no. 43, ill., as La Tentation de saint Antoine, lent by Kasama Nichido Museum of Art. Traveled to: Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan, February 7–April 12, 2009.
National Art Center, Tokyo, Cézanne: Paris-Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012, no. 45, ill.
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 82, ill. lent by Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama.
Published References
Trublot, [P. Alexis]. "A Minuit: La Collection Murer." Le Cri du Peuple, October 21, 1887, no. 2.
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 13, as La Tentation de Saint Antoine.
Ruckstull, Fred Wellington. Great Works of Art and What Makes Them Great. New York: Garden City Publishing Co., 1925, p. 24, fig. 16 (caption calls picture "insane in thought" and "childish in artistry").
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 23, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 240, ill. vol. II, as La Tentation de saint-Antoine.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 25, ill.
Gachet, Paul. Deux amis des impressionnistes: le Docteur Gachet et Murer. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1956, pp. 171 (reprint of article by P. Alexis), 174 (erroneous description refers to no. /entry:R300/).
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne, Flaubert, St. Anthony, and the Queen of Sheba." The Art Bulletin 44, no. 2 (June 1962), pp. 113–25, fig. 4.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 45, ill.
Ballas, Guila. "Daumier, Corot, Papety, et Delacroix, inspirateurs de Cézanne." Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français (1974), pp. 197 and 199, ill. in b/w fig. 7 p. 196, as La Tentation de saint Antoine, 1873-1875.
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. 240, ill. vol. 2, La Tentation de Saint Antoine.
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 123, 200, fig. 30, as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 309, no. 256, ill., as La Tentation de saint Antoine, 1873-75.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 73; vol. 2, p. 71, as La Tentation de Saint Antoine.
Coutagne, Denis. "Le Femme exposée." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 90, fig. 40, as La Tentation de saint Antoine.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 226, pl. 106.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 250, ill., as La tentation de saint Antoine or Femmes nues.
Notes
Flaubert's Tentation de saint Antoine appeared in L'Artiste in excerpted form from 1857; a complete edition first appeared in 1874. Cézanne painted the same theme of the saint in an earlier work from 1870 (La Tentation de saint Antoine, c.1870 (611)) and circa 1877 (La Tentation de saint Antoine, c.1877 (650)).
Related
Related work
Record last updated October 27, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Tentation de saint Antoine, c.1874 (FWN 630)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=243 (accessed on November 27, 2024).
