The Eternal Feminine (Cézanne)
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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 Eugene 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 by Delacroix in reverse and it is as if it was created in response to the earlier work.[2]
Later an art dealer altered the painting to render it more saleble.[3][4][5][6]
The painting is in the permanent collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.[7]
References
- ^ "The Eternal Feminine — Google Arts & Culture". Artsandculture.google.com. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
- ^ McEwan, Olivia (2016-05-04). "A Show About Delacroix's Influence Is Sorely Missing His Work". Hyperallergic.com. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
- ^ https://www.societe-cezanne.fr/2013/12/17/cezanne-lannee-terrible-and-the-eternal-feminin/
- ^ "Paul Cézanne | The Eternal Feminine (About 1877)". Artsy. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
- ^ Harrison, Charles (2006-01-09). "Project MUSE - Cezanne and the Eternal Feminine (review)". Muse.jhu.edu. doi:10.1353/mod.2006.0011. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
- ^ https://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/37262/excerpt/9780521837262_excerpt.pdf
- ^ "The Eternal Feminine (L'Éternel Féminin) (Getty Museum)". Getty.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
