The Eternal Feminine (Cézanne)

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The Eternal Feminine
Paul Cézanne - The Eternal Feminine (L'Éternel Féminin) - 87.PA.79 - J. Paul Getty Museum.jpg
ArtistPaul Cézanne
Year1864
MediumOil on canvas
LocationJ. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

The Eternal Feminine is an 1877 oil on canvas painting by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne.[1]

This is a rather ambiguous work where men of many professions and an artist (reportedly a depiction of Eugène Delacroix) who is painting this very picture are gathered around a single female figure.

Here a whole range of professions, occupations and arts are represented: writers, lawyers, and a painter is painting the scene we are ourselves seeing which most say is meant to be Delacroix but others Cézanne himself characteristically of the painter's representation of himself lacking a mouth. The manifestation of the feminine is reclined upon a canopied bed outdoors.

It has also been suggested by the curator of the 2016 National Gallery exhibition "Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art", Christopher Riopelle that the work takes on the geometric configuration of The Death of Sardanapalus (1827) by Eugène Delacroix in reverse and it is as if it was created in response to the earlier work. The French art historian and curator Françoise Cachin proposed that the origin of this work lays in the earlier Delacroix.[2][3]

Later an art dealer altered the painting to render it more saleable.[4][5][6][7]

The painting is in the permanent collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ "The Eternal Feminine — Google Arts & Culture". Retrieved 2021-06-22.
  2. ^ McEwan, Olivia (2016-05-04). "A Show About Delacroix's Influence Is Sorely Missing His Work". Hyperallergic.com. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
  3. ^ Andersen, Wayne (1996). "Cézanne's the eternal feminine as the whore of Babylon". The European Legacy. 1 (6): 1949–1960. doi:10.1080/10848779608579648.
  4. ^ "Cezanne, l'année terrible and the Eternal Feminin". Société Cezanne. December 17, 2013.
  5. ^ "Paul Cézanne | The Eternal Feminine (About 1877)". Artsy. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
  6. ^ Harrison, Charles (2006-01-09). "Project MUSE - Cezanne and the Eternal Feminine (review)". Muse.jhu.edu. doi:10.1353/mod.2006.0011. S2CID 144968544. Retrieved 2021-06-22. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. ^ Andersen, Wayne V. (2004). Cezanne and the eternal feminine (PDF). Paul Cézanne. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-83726-X. OCLC 54446511.
  8. ^ "The Eternal Feminine (L'Éternel Féminin) (Getty Museum)". Getty.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
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