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

The Eternal Feminine
Artist	Paul Cézanne
Year	1864
Medium	Oil on canvas
Location	J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

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, possibly Delacroix, while others believe is Cézanne himself. The painter's representation of himself is 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]

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- [en] The Eternal Feminine (Cézanne)

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[fr] L'Éternel féminin (Cézanne)

L'Éternel féminin (ou Le Veau d'or[1]) est une peinture à l'huile sur toile réalisée en 1877 par l'artiste post-impressionniste français Paul Cézanne[2].

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