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Provenance

(Ambroise Vollard [1867-1939], Paris), by 1895; acquired by Pierre-Auguste Renoir [1841-1919], Cagnes; re-purchased by (Ambroise Vollard, Paris), by 1912;[1] sold to Dr. Gottlieb Friedrich Reber [1880-1959], Barmen, Germany, and Lausanne, by 1913;[2] sold May 1931 to Marie N. Harriman [1903-1970] and W. Averell Harriman [1891-1986], New York [Marie Harriman Gallery];[3] W. Averell Harriman Foundation, New York; gift 1972 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1913
Sonderausstellungen deutscher Privatsammlungen. II: Gemaelde-Sammlung G.F. Reber, Barmen, Städtischen Austellungsgebäude, Mathildenhöhhe, Darmstadt, 1913, no. 14, as Lutteurs amoureaux.
1933
French Paintings, Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, 1933, no. 8
1936
Cezanne - Gauguin, The Toledo Museum of Art, 1936, no. 18, repro.
1936
Paul Cezanne, André Derain, Walt Kuhn, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Renoir, Vincent van Gogh, Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, 1936, no. 2
1937
Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1937, no. 6, repro., as Figure Composition (La Lutte d'Amour)
1939
Cezanne Centennial Exhibition, Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, 1939, no. 3
1947
Loan Exhibition of Cezanne for the Benefit of the New York Infirmary, Wildenstein, New York, 1947, no. 12, repro.
1952
Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1952, no. 19, repro.
1953
Monticelli et le Baroque Provençal, Musée de L'Orangerie, Paris, 1953, no. 18
1955
Albany Institute of History and Art, 1955, no cat.
1956
Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, 1956, no. 22
1958
Summer loan exhibition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, July-August 1958, no cat.
1959
Cezanne Exhibition, Wildenstein, New York, 1959, no. 12, repro.
1961
Exhibition of the Marie and Averell Harriman Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1961, unnumbered catalogue, repro. 12
1974
Exposition Cézanne, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo; Municipal Museum, Kyoto; Cultural Center, Fukouka, 1974, no. 21
1974
Loan for display with permanent collection, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 1974
1980
Fifty Years of French Painting: The Emergence of Modern Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, 1980, no. 15, repro.
1981
Small Paintings from Famous Collections, The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, 1981, repro.
1984
Paul Cézanne, Museo Español de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, 1984, no. 26, repro.
1988
The Pastoral Landscape: The Modern Vision, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., 1988-1989, no. 116, fig. 213.
1989
Paul Cezanne: Die Badenden, Kunstmuseum, Basel, 1989, no. 41, repro.
1992
From El Greco to Cézanne: Masterpieces of European Painting from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and The Metroplitan Museum of Art, New York, National Gallery of Greece, Athens, 1992-1993, no. 62, repro.
1996
Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art de Washington, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 1996-1997, unnumbered catalogue, 150-151, color repro.
1999
Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1999, no cat.
1999
Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 1999, no. 51, repro.
2006
Cezanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant Garde, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2006-2007, no. 34, repro.
2008
Cézanne & Giacometti: Paths of Doubt, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, 2008, no. 15, repro.
2011
Cézanne et Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2011-2012, no. 52, repro.
2013
Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art, Museo dell'Ara Pacis Augustae, Rome (exhibition title in this venue: Impressionist Gems); California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo, Seattle Art Museum, 2013-2016.
2015
Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art; National Gallery, London, 2015-2016, no. 20, repro. (shown only in London).
2019
Renoir: The Body, The Senses, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 2019-2020, no. 43, repro.

Bibliography

1936
Venturi, Lionello. Cezanne, son art, son oeuvre. 2 vols. Paris, 1936.
1970
Orienti 1970, no.271.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 62, repro.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 499, no. 741, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 83, repro.
1993
Adams, Laurie Schneider. Art and Psychoanalysis. New York, 1993: 244-245, fig. 92.
1996
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: a catalogue raisonné. 2 vols. New York, 1996:no. 456, repro.
1997
Impressionist and Modern Art, Part I, Sotheby's, New York, 1997, p. 40, repro.
1997
Kelder, Diane. The Great Book of French Impressionism, 1997, no. 382, repro.
2001
Kropmanns, Peter, and Uwe Fleckner. "Von Kontinentaler Bedeutung: Gottlieb Freidrich Reber und seine Sammlungen." In Die Moderne und ihre Sammler. Andrea Pophanken and Felix Billeter, eds. Berlin, 2001: 387.
2009
Picasso Cézanne. Exh. cat. Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, 2009: 134 fig. 1, 137.
2013
Dombrowski, André. Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life. Berkeley, 2013: 239-240, color plate 16.

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