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L'amour en platre (study)

Paul Cézanne, 1839–1906

This is one of eleven drawings by Paul Cézanne of a plaster cast of Cupid he owned. The original marble, now lost, was attributed to French sculptor Pierre Puget (1620-94) but is of uncertain authorship. The motif was incorporated into two of Cézanne's still life paintings attesting to the revolutionary's master's reverence for tradition. The drawing was acquired for the British Museum a year after the death of Roger Fry a co-founder of the Art Fund and the greatest champion of Cézanne in the early twentieth century.

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Title of artwork, date

L'amour en platre (study), 1839–1906

Date supported

1935

Medium and material

Pencil

Dimensions

46 x 30 cm

Grant

120

Total cost

120

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