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 692
Nature morte avec l'Amour en plâtre
c.1895 (possibly earlier)
Alternate titles: Amor i Gips; L'Amour en plâtre; Le plâtre; Nature morte; Nature morte à l'Amour de Puget; Nature morte à l’Amour en plâtre; Still Life with a Plaster Cast; Still Life with Figure of Cupid; Still Life with Plaster Cast; Still Life with Plaster Cupid; Stilleben mit Cupido; Stilleben mit Gipsfigur des Amor von Puget
Rewald (786): 1895 (possibly earlier); Venturi revised: c.1895; Venturi (706): c.1895; Cooper: c.1895; Gowing: c.1892, related to No. 743 (Edinburgh); Reff: 1892 (MoMA)
Oil on paper mounted on canvas
27 5/8 x 22 3/8 in. (70 x 57 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3686, huile; enfant en plâtre sans bras sur une table entre deux nature mortes; à gauche une draperie bleue; à droite en haut fragment de sculpture, 71 x 58 cm (175 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 82, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1883
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 6–17, 1914.
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark, Fransk Malerkunst fra det 19nde Aarhundrede [French Art of the Nineteenth Century], May 15–June 30, 1914, no. 20, as Amor i Gips, lent by Bernheim-Jeune.
Montross Gallery, New York, Cézanne, January 1–31, 1916, no. 2, as Still Life with Figure of Cupid, lent by Bernheim-Jeune.
Thomas Agnew & Sons, Manchester, United Kingdom, Masterpieces of 19th Century French Art, November (?) 1923, no. 8, as Le plâtre.
Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, Masterpieces of French Art, June 29 - end of July, no. 8, as Le plâtre.
Leicester Galleries, London, Paintings and Drawings by Paul Cézanne, June–July 1925, no. 10, as L'Amour en plâtre, lent by S. Courtauld.
Rosenberg & Helft, London, Exhibition Cézanne (1839-1906) to celebrate his centenary, April 19–May 20, 1939, no. 19, ill. lent by Courtauld.
National Gallery, London, Nineteenth Century French Painting, December 11, 1942–January 17, 1943, no. 39, as L'Amour en plâtre, c. 1895, lent by Courtauld.
Tate Gallery, London, Samuel Courtauld: Memorial Exhibition, May–June 1948, no. 15, as Still Life with a Plaster Cast, c. 1895.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 50, ill., frontispiece, as Nature morte à l’Amour en plâtre, c. 1892, lent by the Home House Trustees. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Impressionnistes de la Collection Courtauld de Londres, October 1955, no. 13, pl. 46.
Arts Council of Great Britain, London, Samuel Courtauld's Collection of French 19th Century Paintings and Drawings, July–August 1976, no. 12.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, France, Cézanne: The Late Work, October 7, 1977–January 3, 1978, no. 23, pl. 145. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 26–March 19, 1978; Grand Palais, Paris, Cezanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978 (see Paris 1978a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues).
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 17, ill.
Takashimaya, Tokyo, The Impressionists and the Post-Impressionists from the Courtauld Collection, January 12–February 28, 1984, no. 13. Traveled to: Takashimaya, Kyoto, Japan, March 8–April 3, 1984; Takashimaya, Osaka, Japan, April 12–May 8, 1984.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Impressionist & Post-Impressionist Masterpieces: The Courtauld Collection, January 14–March 8, 1987, no. 28, ill. Traveled to: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 4–June 21, 1987; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, July 11–September 27, 1987; Art Institute, Chicago, October 17, 1987–January 3, 1988; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, January 30–April 3, 1988.
Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, Impressionism for England: Samuel Courtauld as Patron and Collector, June 17–September 25, 1994, no. 12, ill.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 162, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Cézanne i blickpunkten, October 17, 1997–January 11, 1998, no. 27, ill., pp. 86–88 (dated c. 1895).
The Courtauld Gallery, London, Art Made Modern: Roger Fry's Vision of Art, October 15, 1999–January 23, 2000, no. 33, fig. 17 p. 42, as Still Life with Plaster Cupid, c. 1894.
The Courtauld Gallery, London, The Courtauld Cézannes, June 26–October 5, 2008, no. 8, ill., pp. 96–101 (dated c. 1894), as Nature morte avec l'Amour en plâtre.
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, La Collection Courtauld: le parti de l'impressionnsime, February 20–June 17, 2019. (Exhibition catalogue: Serres et al 2019), no. 40, ill., as Nature morte à l’Amour en plâtre, c. 1884.
KODE Art Museums, Bergen, Norway, Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Courtauld at KODE Art Museums, July 16–October 10, 2021, no. 6, ill. c. 1894.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 61, ill. c. 1894, London only? Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Dreyfus, Albert. "Paul Cézanne." Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst 24, no. 9 (June 1913), p. 206, ill.
"A Representative Group of Cézannes Here." New York Times Magazine, January 2, 1916, p. 21.
[McBride, Henry]. "What's Happening in the World of Art." The Sun (New York), January 2, 1916, p. 48, ill.
Wright, Willard Huntington. "Paul Cézanne." International Studio 57, no. 228 (February 1916), p. cxxxix, ill. (pp. cxxx–cxxxi, discussed).
Denis, Maurice. "L'influence de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 1, no. 8 (December 1920), ill. p. 279, as Nature morte à l'Amour de Puget.
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. 232, as Nature morte à l'Amour de Puget.
Phillips, Sir Claude. "Agnew's Galleries: Masterpieces of French Art." The Daily Telegraph (London) (July 3, 1923), p. 12, as Le plâtre.
Dormoy, Marie. "La Collection Courtauld." L'Amour de l'art 10, nos. 1 et 2 (January et February 1929), ill. p. 52, as L'Amour en plâtre.
Jamot, Paul, and Percy Moore Turner. Collection de tableaux français, faite à Londres, 20 Portman Square, par Samuel et Elizabeth Courtauld. London: [privately published], 1934, no. 24.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 706, ill. vol. II, as Nature morte avec l'Amour en plâtre.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 56, as L'Amour en plâtre.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, fig. 44.
Vollard, Ambroise. En écoutant Cézanne, Degas, Renoir. Paris: B. Grasset, 1938, ill. opposite p. 80, as Nature morte.
Jedlicka, Gotthard. Cézanne. Berne: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1948, fig. 48, as Nature morte avec l'Amour en plâtre.
Novotny, Fritz. Die großen französischen Impressionisten: ihre Vorläufer und ihre Nachfolge. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1952, p. 64, ill. in b/w p. 9, as Stilleben mit Gipsfigur des Amor von Puget, c. 1895.
Hofmann, Werner. Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). Munich, Vienna, Basel: Kurt Desch, 1953, pl. 27, as Stilleben mit Cupido, 1895.
Rousseau, Théodore, Jr. Paul Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1953, pl. 27.
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. 706.
Dittmann, Lorenz. "Zur Kunst Cézannes." In Festschrift Kurt Badt. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1961, fig. 3.
Haftmann, Werner. Malerei im 20. Jahrhundert: eine Bild-Enzyklopädie. Munich: Prestel, 1965, listed p. 405, fig. 2 p. 20, as Stilleben mit Cupido, c. 1895.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 133.
Novotny, Fritz. Über das "Elementare" in der Kunstgeschichte und andere Aufsätze. Vienna: Verlag Brüder Rosenbaum, 1968, p. 31, fig. 8 p. 148.
Schapiro, Meyer. "The Apples of Cézanne: An Essay on the Meaning of Still-Life." Art News Annual 34 (1968), pp. 37, 39, 47, pl. 3.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 38, with comments.
Reff, Theodore. "Painting and Theory in the Final Decade." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 31, ill.
Embiricos, Georges A. "Cézanne et la répétition." Connaissance des Arts, no. 315 (May 1978), p. 72, ill. p. 74.
Stokes, Adrian. "Cézanne." In The Critical Writings of Adrian Stokes, vol. 2, 1937–58. London: Thames & Hudson, 1978, fig. 99, commentary p. 269.
Reff, Theodore. "The Pictures within Cézanne's Pictures." Arts Magazine 53, no. 10 (June 1979), fig. 31.
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Cézanne's Bathers: Form and Content." Arts Magazine 54, no. 9 (May 1980), p. 118, fig. 14.
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 40.
Thomas, Denis. The Age of the Impressionists. Middlesex, U.K.: Holiday House, 1987, p. 161, ill.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 193, ill. in color.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 196, ill.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 290–91, fig. 142.
Shiff, Richard. "Cézanne's Physicality: The Politics of Touch." In The Language of Art History, edited by Salim Kemal and Ivan Gaskell. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1991, p. 156, fig. 8.5
Brion-Guerry, Liliane. "La difficile recherche d'un nouvel espace." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. pp. 66 and 67.
Kitschen, Friederike. Cézanne: Stilleben. Ostfildern-Ruit: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1995, fig. 46.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 187.
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. 786, ill. vol. 2, as Nature morte avec l'Amour en plâtre.
Shiff, Richard. "Dense Cézanne." Apollo (London) 143, no. 412 (June 1996), fig. 3, as Still Life with Plaster Cupid.
Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 7, fig. 1, as Still Life with Plaster Cupid.
Gervais, David. "A Picture by Cézanne: 'Le Grand Baigneur.'" The Cambridge Quarterly 26, no. 2 (1997), fig. 7.
Ely, Bruno. "The Studio in the Days of Marcel Provence." In Atelier Cézanne, 1902–2002: Le centenaire. Aix-en-Provence: Société Paul Cézanne, 2002, fig. 24, ill. in color.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2004. Exhibition catalogue, p. 86, fig. 32, as Still Life with Plaster Cast, c. 1894.
Baumann, Felix A., ed. Cézanne—Aufbruch in die Moderne. Essen: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2004. Exhibition catalogue, p. 199, ill., as Nature morte avec l'Amour en plâtre.
Kropmanns, Peter. "Matisse, die Fauves und Cézanne." In Cézanne: Aufbruch in die Moderne. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2004. Exhibition catalogue, p. 199.
Brettell, Richard, and Stephen Eisenmann. Nineteenth-Century Art in the Norton Simon Museum. New Haven: Norton Simon Foundation with Yale University Press, 2006, p. 311, fig. 82c, as Still Life with Plaster Cast.
Conisbee, Philip. "Cézanne's Provence." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 19, fig. 18, as Nature morte avec l'Amour en plâtre.
Robbins, Anne. "Less a Luxury Than a Necessity: Collecting Cézanne in Britain." In Cézanne in Britain. London: Kate Bell, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 20, fig. 7.
Shiff, Richard. "Risible Cézanne." In The Repeating Image: Multiples in French Painting from David to Matisse. Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, p. 154, fig. 21, as Still Life with Plaster Cupid, dated c. 1894.
Verdi, Richard. "Cézanne in Britain, London." The Burlington Magazine 149, no. 1246 (January 2007), p. 53 mentioned, as Still Life with a Plaster Cast.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 381; vol. 2, p. 242, as Nature morte avec l'Amour en plâtre.
Cowling, Elizabeth. "'Le drame de l'homme.' Le Cézannisme de Picasso en 1906–08." In Picasso, Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 51, fig. 10, as Nature morte avec l'Amour en plâtre.
Elderfield, John. "Picasso's Extreme Cézanne." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 212, fig. 8.6, as Still Life with Plaster Cupid, dated c.1894.
Rishel, Joseph J., and Katherine Sachs. "The Making of an Exhibition." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 16, fig. 1.31, as Le plâtre, dated circa 1894.
Kitschen, Friederike. "Melancholie und 'décoration.' Zur Stimmung im Werk Paul Cézannes." In Stimmung. Ästhetische Kategorie und künstlerische Praxis, edited by Kerstin Thomas. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2010, p. 88, ill.
Novotny, Fritz. Paul Cézanne: Gesammelte Schriften zu seinem Werk und Materialien aus dem Nachlaß. Introduction by Gabriel Ramin Schor (editor), Agnes Blaha (assistance). Vienna: Klever, 2011, fig. 44.
Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne abstraction faite. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2011, p. 269, fig. 196.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 9, pl. 2.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "Courbet, Cézanne et l'Écorché." In Courbet/Cézanne: La vérité en peinture. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 106, fig. 5.
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. 271 fig. 2.
Freudenberg, Inken. "The Chimerical Pursuit of Art, Paul Cézanne and Gustave Flaubert: An Affinity Explored." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 1.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "Flayed Figures and Plaster Casts: Cézanne's Ecorchés, their Origins and Progeny." 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. 6.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 42, c. 1895.
Cezanne, Jas de Bouffan: art et histoire. Under the scientific direction of Denis Coutagne and François Chédeville. Lyon; Aix-en-Provence: Fage édition; Société Paul Cezanne, 2019, fig. 187 p. 193.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 53, ill., as L'Amour en plâtre, installation photograph from 1914 exhibition, p. 100.
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 41.
Nagaï, Takanori. Truth in Panting: The Meaning of Cezanne's Practices for Modernizing Society. Tokyo: Sangesha Publishers Inc., 2022, pl. 40.
Smith, Paul. "Looking slowly with Cezanne." The Burlington Magazine 165 (April 2023), fig. 16, with photos of the Cupid by the author, figs. 17 and 18.
Record last updated August 18, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Nature morte avec l'Amour en plâtre, c.1895 (possibly earlier) (FWN 692)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=763 (accessed on April 18, 2024).
