The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
(Formerly directed by Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash)
FWN 472
La Femme à l'ermine, d'après Coello
1885–86
Alternate titles: Dame mit Boa; Femme à la mantille; Femme au boa, copie d'après le Greco; Frau mit Boa; Frau mit der Mantille; Frau mit Kopftuch und Boa; Jeune femme à la fourrure; La Femme à l'hermine, d'après le Greco; La Femme à l'hermine, after El Greco; La Femme à la fourrure; La femme à la pelisse; La Femme au boa; Lady in a Fur Wrap; Lady in a Fur Wrap, after El Greco; Portrait; Portrait de Mile Marie Cézanne; Tête de femme or Femme à la fourrure; Woman with a Boa; Woman with a Fur Piece
Rewald (568): 1885–86; Venturi revised: 1880–81; Venturi (376): 1879–82; Rivière: 1879 (1923) and 1878 (1933)
Oil on canvas
20 7/8 x 19 5/16 in. (53 x 49 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3496, huile; une tête de femme avec un capuchon blanc, sur un fond bleu, 54 x 49 cm (150 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 148, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Portrait de Mlle C., 1875; in another hand: 1878
Private collection
Provenance
George Embiricos, Lausanne;
Private collection
Exhibition History
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Rétrospective d'oeuvres de Cézanne, October 1–22, 1907, no. 4, as La Femme au boa, lent by Pellerin.
Munich, Frühjahr-Ausstellung der Münchener Sezession, Spring 1909, no. 25, as Frau mit der Mantille, lent by Pellerin.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, D'après les maîtres, April 18–30, 1910, no. 42, as Femme à la mantille, lent by Pellerin.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 56, as La Femme à la fourrure, lent by Pellerin.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Sources of Modern Painting: A Loan Exhibition Assembled from American Public and Private Collections, March 2–April 9, 1939, no. 7, ill. Traveled to: Wildenstein Galleries, New York, April 25–May 20, 1939.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 29, lent by Pellerin.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 21, ill. lent by anon.
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, El Greco y la pintura moderna [English translation: El Greco & Modern Painting], June 24–October 5, 2014, no. 14, ill., as Lady in a Fur Wrap, after El Greco, lent by Private collection, London.
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 47, ill.
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, Cezanne et les Maîtres, rêve d'Italie, February 27–July 5, 2020, no. 3, ill. lent Courtesy Daniel Katz Gallery, London.
Published References
Denis, Maurice. "Cézanne I' and 'Cézanne II." Translated by Roger Fry. The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 16, no. 82 and no. 83 (January and Fabruary 1910), pl. II p. [212] (no. 82), as Woman with a Boa.
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1913, pl. 58, as Dame mit Boa.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1913, p. 43, ill. p. 41.
"A Private Collection in Germany That Contains Fourteen Examples of the Art of Paul Cezanne, a Great Modern, Who Already Is Placed with the Old Masters, in Darmstadt." New York Times, July 6, 1913, p. 15, as Woman with Headdress and Boa.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 169.
Friedländer, Max J. "Über Paul Cézanne." Die Kunst für Alle 38 (February 1922), ill. p. 142, as Frau mit Kopftuch und Boa, c. 1885.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 202.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 207, listed, p. 19, ill., as Portrait de Mile Marie Cézanne, dated 1879, Hessel.
Vauxcelles, Louis. "A propos de Cézanne [Hommage à Paul Cézanne]." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 37 (July 1, 1926), p. 484, ill., as Portrait.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 71, as Frau mit Boa, c. 1885.
Zervos, Christian. "Idéalisme et naturalisme dans la peinture moderne, II: Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh." Cahiers d'Art, no. 10 (1927), p. 331, ill.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. LXXI.
Burroughs, Alan. "David and Cézanne, Presenting the Case of Thought versus Feeling." The Arts 16, no. 1 (September 1929), p. 99, ill.
Neugass, Fritz. "Paul Cézanne: zu seinem 25. Todestag am 22. Oktober 1931." Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration 69 (October 1931–March 1932), p. 136, ill.
Peschcke-Koedt, Matthias. "Statusopgorelse i Malerkunsten." Samleren 10 (December 1933), p. 187, ill.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 67, ill.
Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1936, fig. 9.
Sterling, Charles. "Cézanne et les maîtres d'autrefois." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 19, nos. 5-6 (May–June 1936), pp. 7 et 14, as Jeune femme à la fourrure.
Rewald, John. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Art sacré: revue mensuelle, special number, Cézanne (May 1936), p. 8, fig. 16 p. 23, as Femme au boa, copie d'après le Greco.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 376, ill. vol. II, as La Femme à la fourrure.
Rewald, John. "Sources d'inspiration de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 86 p. 190, as La Femme au boa, 1860 (with engraving after El Greco, fig. 85).
Rewald, John. "Une copie par Cézanne d'après le Greco." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 15, periode 6 (February 1936), pp. 118–21, fig. 4.
Puyvelde, Leo van. "Les musées en Amérique." Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 340 (July 7, 1939), p. 4, as La femme à la pelisse.
Brian, Doris. "Sources of Modern Painting: New York Sees a Notable Show from New England." Art News 37 (April 29, 1939), ill. p. 11, as Woman with a Fur Piece.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 67, ill.
Guerry, Liliane. "Le Problème de l'équilibre spatial dans les portraits cézanniens de la période constructive." Etudes d'Art, no. 2 (1946), fig. 2.
Jedlicka, Gotthard. Cézanne. Berne: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1948, fig. 22, as La Femme à l'hermine, after El Greco.
Camón Aznar, José. Dominico Greco, vol. 2. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1950, p. 1082, ill.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, listed p. 154.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 13.
Benjamin, Roger. "Recovering Authors: The Modern Copy, Copy Exhibitions and Matisse." Art History 12 (June 1989), pp. 188–89, figs. 49 and 50 (with Laurens's engraving after El Greco).
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 219, fig. 110.
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 568, ill. vol. 2, as La Femme à l'hermine, d'après le Greco.
Kovács, Anna Zsófia. "Cézanne's Use of Reproductive Prints." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 138, fig. 80, as Lady in a Fur Wrap.
Geskó, Judit. "'Builderly' Painting: The Making of an Exhibition." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 23, fig. 80 (detail), as Lady in a Fur Wrap.
Eiling, Alexander. "Cézanne's Metamorphoses." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 2.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 134, fig. 43.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. London and Princeton, N,J.: National Portrait Gallery Publications and Princeton University Press, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 45.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 188, ill., as Tête de femme or Femme à la fourrure, installation photograph from 1910 exhibition, pp. 88 and 89.
Geskó, Judit. "Abstraction and Meaning, The Budapest Holy Family with Saint Anne." In El Greco. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2022. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 60.
Notes
Possibly painted at the Jas de Bouffan.
Formerly attributed to El Greco, Lady in a Fur Wrap, c. 1577 (Glasgow Museums). The painting was reattributed to Alonso Sanchez Coello in 2019.
J.-B. Laurens after an engraving of El Greco, Lady in a Fur Wrap. published in Le Magasin pittoresque, vol. 28, 1860, p. 292
Record last updated March 8, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Femme à l'ermine, d'après Coello, 1885–86 (FWN 472)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=555 (accessed on April 19, 2024).
