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 476
Portrait de madame Cézanne
1885–86
Alternate titles: Mme Cézanne; Portrait de Madame Cézanne; Portrait of Madame Cézanne
Rewald (576): 1886–87; Venturi revised: 1883–86; Venturi (521): c.1885; Other: van Buren: 1886–88
Oil on canvas
18 1/8 x 15 in. (46 x 38 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3842, huile; buste de femme gris Mme Cezanne, 46 x 37 cm (75 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 236, Annotated: 1885
Provenance
Exhibition History
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Paintings by the Great French Impressionists from the Collection of M. Paul Rosenberg of Paris, February 1921, no. 33, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne, tentative identification.
Paul Rosenberg, Paris, Œuvres de grands maitres du dix-neuvième siècle, May 3–June 3, 1922, no. 12, as Portrait de madame Cézanne, 1888, according to Janneau article lent by Rosenberg.
Thomas Agnew & Sons, Manchester, United Kingdom, Masterpieces of 19th Century French Art, November (?) 1923, no. 13, as Portrait de madame Cézanne.
Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, Masterpieces of French Art, June 29 - end of July, no. 13, as Portrait de madame Cézanne.
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Manet's masterpiece "Le Vieux musicien" and other important paintings by Cézanne, ..., May 17–?, 1927, Portrait of his wife.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Paul Cézanne, January 1928, no. 23, as Portrait de madame Cézanne, lent by White.
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Inaugural Exhibition, March 1928, lent by White.
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November–December 1934, no. 44, as Portrait of Madame Cézanne, lent by SS White.
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Cézanne: Centennial Exhibition, November 7–December 2, 1939, no. 7, (dated c.1885), as Portrait de madame Cézanne, lent by White.
Paul Rosenberg, New York, A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Cézanne (1839-1906) for the Benefit of Fighting France, November 19–December 19, 1942, no. 13, ill. lent by S.S. White.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 37, ill. lent by White.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Masterpieces of Philadelphia Private Collections, May 20–September 15, 1947, no. 23.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 44, ill. lent by White. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne in Philadelphia Collections, July 19–August 21, 1983, no. 13, ill. lent by Philadelphia Museum.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 40, ill.
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 21, ill. Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).
Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, Cézanne & Giacometti: Paths of Doubt, February 20–June 29, 2008, no. 28, ill. p. 66, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne, lent by Philadelphia Museum.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Homage to Cézanne: His Influence on the Development of Twentieth Century Painting, November 15, 2008–January 25, 2009, no. 8, ill., as Portrait de madame Cézanne. Traveled to: Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan, February 7–April 12, 2009.
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, Cézanne and American Modernism, September 13, 2009–January 3, 2010, no. 6, ill., p. 148, as Portrait de madame Cézanne. Traveled to: The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, February 14–May 23, 2010; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, June 26–September 26, 2010.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Madame Cézanne, November 19, 2014–March 15, 2015, n.n., pl. 13, lent by Philadelphia Museum of Art.
National Gallery, London, Painters' Painting: From Freud to Van Dyck, June 23–September 4, 2016, no. 11, ill., P. 35.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 32, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 11.2, ill. Traveled to: National Portrait Gallery, London, October 26, 2017–February 11, 2018; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, March 25–July 1, 2018.
Published References
Faure, Elie. "Toujours Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 1, no. 8 (December 1920), ill. p. 269, as Mme Cézanne.
Fontainas, André and Louis Vauxcelles. "Paul Cézanne." Histoire générale de l'art français de la Révolution à nos jours: la peinture, la gravure, le dessin. Paris: Librairie de France, 1922, ill. p. 231, as Mme Cézanne.
Janneau, Guillaume. "Les grandes expositions: maîtres du siècle passé." La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe (Paris), vol. 5, no. 5 (May 1922), p. 342, ill. p. 338.
Phillips, Sir Claude. "Agnew's Galleries: Masterpieces of French Art." The Daily Telegraph (London) (July 3, 1923), p. 12, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 521, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de madame Cézanne.
Laver, James. French Painting and the Nineteenth Century. London: B.T. Batsford, 1937, pl. 117.
Zervos, Christian. Histoire de l'art contemporain. Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'art, 1938, p. 29, ill.
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 60.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 46, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne, c. 1885.
Leonhard, Kurt. Paul Cézanne in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Rheinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1966, p. 120, ill.
Buren, Anne H. van. "Madame Cézanne's Fashions and the Dates of Her Portraits." Art Quarterly 29, no. 2 (1966), fig. 10.
"[Aquisitions des musées du monde entier]." La Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 1189 (February 1968), p. 83, no. 301, ill., as Portrait de Madame Cézanne, c. 1885.
Lindsay, Jack. "Cézanne and Zola." Art and Artists 4, no. 6 (September 1969), p. 24, ill.
Butler, Marigene. "An Investigation of the Materials and Technique Used by Paul Cézanne." American Institute for Conservation. 1984, ill.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 99, ill. in color.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 200.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 293, fig. 112.
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. 576, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de madame Cézanne.
Feilchenfeldt, Christina. "Portraits." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 164, fig. 1, as Portrait de madame Cézanne.
Pissarro, Joachim. Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–85. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 48, fig. 37.
Bois, Yve-Alain. "Cézanne and Matisse: From Apprenticeship to Creative Misreading." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 116, fig. 4.8, as Portrait of Madame Cézanne.
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, pl. 7, as Portrait de madame Cézanne.
Warman, Jayne. "Cézanne peintre des peintres." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 171, fig. 89, as Portrait of Madame Cézanne.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 86.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 192, fig. 6, as Portrait of Madame Cézanne.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de madame Cézanne, 1885–86 (FWN 476)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=563 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
