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 540
La Dame au livre
1902–04
Alternate title: Artist's Wife
Rewald (945): 1902–04; Venturi revised: c.1900; Venturi (703): 1900–1904; Rivière: 1888; Reff: probably 1900–1902 (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
26 x 19 5/8 in. (66 x 49.8 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 43, ill. lent by Wildenstein.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 32. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 56. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, France, Cézanne: The Late Work, October 7, 1977–January 3, 1978, no. 53, pl. 20. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 26–March 19, 1978; Grand Palais, Paris, Cezanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978 (see Paris 1978a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues).
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 10, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 61, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 23.2, 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
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 216, listed.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 703, ill. vol. II, as La Dame au livre.
Lord, Douglas. "Nineteenth-Century French Portraiture." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 72, no. 423 (June 1938), p. 263, ill. p. [252], as Artist's Wife.
Catalogue: A Museum of Modern Art and Its Sources. Washington, D.C.: Phillips Collection, 1952, pl. 71.
Buren, Anne H. van. "Madame Cézanne's Fashions and the Dates of Her Portraits." Art Quarterly 29, no. 2 (1966), p. 127, note 22.
Phillips, Marjorie. Duncan Phillips and His Collection. Boston: Little, Brown, 1970, p. 222.
Gowing, Lawrence. "The Logic of Organized Sensations." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 65, ill.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 145.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 446, 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. 945, ill. vol. 2, as La Dame au livre.
Coutagne, Denis. "The Major Works in the Lauves Studio." In Atelier Cézanne, 1902–2002: Le centenaire. Aix-en-Provence: Société Paul Cézanne, 2002, fig. 23, ill. in color.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 367; vol. 2, p. 236, as La Dame au livre.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 210, pl. 98.
Record last updated May 6, 2024. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Dame au livre, 1902–04 (FWN 540)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=918 (accessed on May 19, 2024).
