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 1743
Madame Cezanne aux hortensias
c.1885
Alternate titles: Frau Cézanne schlafend; Hortensia; Hortensienblüte und Bildnis Hortense Cézanne (Hortensia avec portrait de Hortense Cézanne); L'Hortensia; Madame Cézanne (Hortense Fiquet) aux hortensias; Madame Cézanne dormant; Madame Cezanne et hortensia; Madame Cézanne with Hortensias; Madame Cezanne with Hydrangeas; Skizzenblatt mit Bildnis Madame Cézanne, ruhend und Hortensienblüten; The Hortensia
Rewald (W209); Venturi revised: c.1893; Venturi (1100): 1883–87
Graphite and watercolor on paper
MBM watermark (Morel, Berciaux und Masure)
12 1/2 x 19 in. (31.8 x 48.3 cm)
Private collection
Provenance
Exhibition History
Photo-Succession Gallery [Alfred Stieglitz], New York, Watercolors by Cezanne, March 1–25, 1911, no. 19, as Hortensia.
Grafton Galleries, London, Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition - Re-arrangement, January 4–31, 1913, no. 16, as L'Hortensia, lent by Bernheim-Jeune et Cie.
Graphisches Cabinet J. B. Neumann, Munich, Französische Graphik von Ingres bis Picasso, Summer 1929, no. 13, as Frau Cézanne schlafend.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 68, ill., as Madame Cezanne aux hortensias, c. 1885, lent by Private collection. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 51, ill. p. 146-47, as Skizzenblatt mit Bildnis Madame Cézanne, ruhend und Hortensienblüten, 1882-1885, lent by Private collection.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 85, ill., as Hortensienblüte und Bildnis Hortense Cézanne (Hortensia avec portrait de Hortense Cézanne), 1882-86, lent by Private collection. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 101, ill. in color, p. 275, as Madame Cezanne aux hortensias, c. 1885, lent by Privat collection, shown in London only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 8, ill., as Madame Cézanne (Hortense Fiquet) aux hortensias, c. 1885, lent by Private collection. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and his New York Galleries, January 28–April 22, 2001, pl. 20, as Madame Cezanne with Hydrangeas, Private collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Madame Cézanne, November 19, 2014–March 15, 2015, n.n., pl. 42, as Madame Cézanne with Hortensias (catalogued but not exhibited).
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 54, ill.
Published References
Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar. "Cézanne Embryos." New York Evening Mail, March 8, 1911, p. 9.
Wright, Willard Huntington. "Paul Cézanne." International Studio 57, no. 228 (February 1916), p. cxxx.
Borély, Jules. "Cézanne à Aix [Hommage à Paul Cézanne]." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 37 (July 1, 1926), p. 492, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1100, ill. vol. II, as Madame Cézanne dormant.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 66, "Present location unknown"!
Geist, Sidney. "What Makes 'The Black Clock' Run." Art International 22, no. 2 (February 1978), p. 10, ill.
Adriani, Götz. "Paul Cézanne 1839-1906 - Das zeichnerische Werk." Die Kunst und das schöne Heim 12 (1978), p. 728, ill., as Skizzenblatt mit Bildnis Madame Cézanne, ruhend und Hortensienblüten.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 209, ill. and color pl. 22.
Wetzel, Christoph. Paul Cézanne: Leben u. Werk. Stuttgart/Zurich: Belser, 1984, ill. (cropped).
Elderfield, John. "Cézanne: The Lesson of the Master." Review of Paul Cézanne; The Watercolors, by John Rewald. Art in America 73, no. 6 (June 1985), p. 89, ill.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 152, ill. in color.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 88, pl. VIII.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2004. Exhibition catalogue, p. 30, fig. 13, as Madame Cézanne with Hortensias.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Die Zeichnungen Cézannes: Kleine Formate: Skizzen. Grosse Formate: Aquarelle ohne Farbe." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 224, ill.
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, pl. 17, p. 169-70, 193, 203-4, fig. 17.
Houssais, Laurent. Cézanne année après année. Paris: Editions Hazan, 2011, p. 206-07, ill.
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 609, no. 1454, ill. in color p. 608, as Madame Cezanne aux hortensias, 1882-1886.
Cézanne, Paul. The Letters of Paul Cézanne. Edited and translated by Alex Danchev. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson; Getty Publications, 2013, p. 35, ill.
Duverget, Chantal. "Madame Cézanne, de Franche-Comté." In Courbet/Cézanne: La vérité en peinture. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 120, fig. 2, as Madame Cezanne aux hortensias.
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin Français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2013, no. 1454, ill. p. 608.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 147, fig. 94.
Nagaï, Takanori. "Cézanne and Jas de Bouffan." In Le "basho" dans l'art moderne français. Tokyo: Sangensha, 2016, p. 107, ill.
Ruppen, Fabienne. "On Margins and Versos: The Hidden Interrelationships Among Cézanne's Works on Paper." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 2.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 67, 1885.
Lloyd, Christopher. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawings. New York: Thames & Hudson Inc., 2019, p. 93, ill., as Madame Cézanne with Hortensias.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 284, ill., as Madame Cezanne et hortensia.
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 142.
Friedman, Samantha. "Condensation: Cézanne's Study Sheets." In Cézanne Drawing. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, p. 24, fig. 8.
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Record last updated March 1, 2024. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Madame Cezanne aux hortensias, c.1885 (FWN 1743)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1189 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
