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 483
Portrait de madame Cezanne
c.1890
Alternate titles: Madame Cézanne; Madame Cézanne en bleu; Portrait de Madame Cézanne; Portrait de Madame Cézanne en bleu; Portrait de Mme Cézanne; Portrait of Madame Cézanne; Portret van Mevrouw Cézanne
Rewald (684): c.1890; Venturi revised: 1883–86; Venturi (523): 1885–90
Oil on canvas
31 7/8 x 25 5/8 in. (81 x 65 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 356, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1886
Provenance
Exhibition History
Société des artistes indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, Trente ans d’art indépendant: rétrospective de 1884 à 1914, February 20–March 21, 1926, no. 2869, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne, lent by Paul Guillaume.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Collection Paul Guillaume: exposition au profit de la Société des Amis du Luxembourg, May 25–June 1929, p. 19, ill., as Madame Cézanne en bleu.
Galerie Pigalle, Paris, Exposition Cèzanne, 1839–1906, January 4–February 7, 1930, no. 12, ill., as Madame Cézanne en bleu, lent by P. Guillaume.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Vincent van Gogh en zijn tijdgenooten, September 6–November 2, 1930, no. 129, as Portret van Mevrouw Cézanne, lent by P. Guillaume, Paris.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, May 18–29, 1931.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Portraits de femmes et enfants, April 14–May 8, 1936, no. 7, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 65, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne en bleu, lent by Mme Guillaume.
Société des artistes indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, 50e exposition - Centenaire du peintre indépendant Paul Cézanne, March 17–April 10, 1939, no. 15, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne, lent by Madame Paul Guillaume.
Galerie Charpentier, Paris, Portraits français, Summer 1945, no. 11, as Portrait de madame Cézanne.
Orangerie, Paris, Collection Jean Walter – Paul Guillaume, January 1966, no. 11, ill.
Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne dans les musées nationaux, July 19–October 14, 1974, extended until October 28, no. 35, ill. in b/w, as Madame Cézanne, c. 1885-1890.
Grand Palais, Paris, De Renoir à Matisse: 22 chefs-d'oeuvre des musées soviétiques et français, June 6–September 18, 1978, no. 4, ill., as Madame Cézanne, c. 1885-1890.
Pinacothèque Nationale - Musée Alexandre Soutzos, Athens, Greece, Impressionnistes et post-impressionnistes des musées français: de Manet à Matisse, January 30–April 20, 1980, no. 6, ill., as Madame Cézanne, c. 1885-90.
National Gallery - Waldstein Riding School, Prague, Od Courbeta k Cézannovi: obrazy z let 1848-1886 ze sbírek francouzských muzeí [From Courbet to Cézanne: paintings from 1848-1886, from the collections of French museums], September–October 1982, no. 20, ill. c. 1885-90, with erroneous Venturi no. Traveled to: Nationalgalerie - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, December 10, 1982–February 20, 1983.
Nationalgalerie - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Von Courbet bis Cézanne: Französische Malerei 1848-1886, December 10, 1982–February 20, 1983, no. 20, ill., as Madame Cézanne, c. 1885-90, with erroneous Venturi no.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Cézanne i blickpunkten, October 17, 1997–January 11, 1998, no. 4, ill., pp. 36–37 (dated 1885–87).
Musée des Beaux-Arts Bunkamura, Tokyo, Chefs d’œuvre du Musée de l'Orangerie : collection Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume, November 14, 1998–February 14, 1999, no. 10, ill., as Portrait de Madame Cézanne. Traveled to: Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan, February 23–April 7, 1999; Musée départemental d'arts, Hiroshima, Japan, April 17–June 27, 1999; Musée départemental d'art moderne, Niigata, Japan, July 10–September 12, 1999; Musée national d'art moderne, Kyoto, Japan, September 21–November 14, 1999; Musée d'art moderne, Taipei, Taiwan, November 4, 1999–March 1, 2000; Museum of fine arts, Kaoshiung, Taiwan, 2000.
Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, From Renoir to Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée de l'Orangerie, June 1–October 15, 2000, no. 27, ill., as Portrait de Madame Cézanne, c. 1885-90. Traveled to: Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, November 12, 2000–February 25, 2001; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, March 29–May 20, 2001; Art Gallery New Soth Wales, Sydney, June 1–July 29, 2001; National Gallery of Victoria on Russell, Melbourne, Australia, August 10–September 30, 2001; Fundación La Caixa - CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain, April 11–June 30, 2002.
Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France, Cézanne: quartoze chefs-œuvres du musée de l'Orangerie, December 16, 2003–April 15, 2004, no. 3, ill., as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Italy, Cézanne, Renoir: 30 capolavori dal Musée de l'Orangerie. I 'classici' dell'Impressionismo dalla collezione Paul Guillaume, March 22–July 3, 2005, no number, pp. 104–05, ill., as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.
Grand Palais, Paris, Picasso et les maîtres, October 8, 2008–February 2, 2009, listed p. 356, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Madame Cézanne, November 19, 2014–March 15, 2015, n.n., pl. 24, lent by Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 33, ill. shown in Paris only.
Published References
Fegdal, Charles. "Trente ans d'art indépendant (suite)." La Revue des beaux-arts (Paris) (Mars 15, 1926), p. 4, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne.
Waldemar-George. "Trente ans d'art indépendant: rétrospetcive de la Société des artistes indépendants." L'Amour de l'art 7, no. 3 (March 1926), ill. p. 90, as Portrait.
Les Arts à Paris, no. 13 (June 1927), ill. p. 18, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.
Waldemar-George. La grande peinture contemporaine à la collection Paul Guillaume. Paris: Éditions des Arts à Paris, 1929, ill. p. 19, as Madame Cézanne en bleu.
Charensol, Georges. "Cézanne à la galerie Pigalle." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 124 (February 15, 1930), p. 181, ill.
P. B. "Cézanne à la galerie Pigalle." Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 1 (January 20, 1930), p. 23, as Madame Cézanne en bleu.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 523, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.
Rilke, Rainer Maria. Lettres sur Cézanne. Paris: Editions Correa, 1944, frontispiece, reproduced.
Musée de l'Orangerie. Collection Jean Walter - Paul Guillaume. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1966, no. 11, ill., as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.
Buren, Anne H. van. "Madame Cézanne's Fashions and the Dates of Her Portraits." Art Quarterly 29, no. 2 (1966), fig. 15 (dated 1882–87).
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, p. 37, fig. 32.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 59, ill.
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 32, ill. in color.
Hoog, Michel. Musée de l’Orangerie: catalogue de la collection Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1986, p. 32, no. 10, ill., as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.
Hoog, Michel. Catalogue of the Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume Collection. Translated by Barbara Shuey. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1987, pp. 32–33, no. 10, ill., as Portrait of Madame Cézanne, shown with Granet portrait, p. 32, for comparison.
Wattenmaker, Richard et al. Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, p. 112, fig. 1.
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. 684, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, pl. 13, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.
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. 197, fig. 14, as Portrait of Madame Cézanne.
Record last updated June 21, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de madame Cezanne, c.1890 (FWN 483)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=662 (accessed on April 23, 2024).
