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FWN 595-TA
Femme nue
Before 1870
Alternate titles: J. Femme nue; La Femme à la puce; La Femme du vidangeur
Rewald (140): Before 1870; Rivière: 1865
51 3/16 x 63 13/16 in. (130 x 162 cm)

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Provenance
Julien-François (Père) Tanguy, Paris (1891)
Paul Gauguin, Paris and Copenhagen (by 1884);
Whereabouts unknown (probably destroyed by the artist)
Exhibition History
1889 Copenhagen
Kunstforeningen (Copenhagen Art Society), Copenhagen, Denmark, Nordiske og Franske Impressionister [Scandinavian and French Impressionists], October 30–November 11, 1889, lent by Gauguin, excluded from the hall.
Published References
Gauguin 1888a
Gauguin, Paul. Sketchbook, known as Album Briand. , p. 5 (as size 100), as J. Femme nue, list datable c. Jan. 1888.
Madsen 1889
Madsen, Karl. "Kunst. Impressionisterne i Kunstforeningen, II." Politiken, November 10, 1889.
Bernard 1894
Bernard, Émile. "Paul Cézanne." Le Coeur, December 1894, p. 4 (described), seen at Tanguy's, but has since disappeared as of writing.
Coquiot 1919
Coquiot, Gustave. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Ollendorf, 1919, pp. 37-38, as La Femme à la puce.
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 197, as La Femme à la puce.
Vollard 1938
Vollard, Ambroise. En écoutant Cézanne, Degas, Renoir. Paris: B. Grasset, 1938, p. 19, as La Femme à la puce.
Denis 1939
Denis, Maurice. "L'aventure posthume de Cézanne." Prométhée: L'Amour de l'art 20, no. 6 (July 1939), p. 194, as La Femme du vidangeur.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pp. 31, 133.
Bodelsen 1962
Bodelsen, Merete. "Gauguin's Cézannes." The Burlington Magazine 104, no. 710 (May 1962), pp. 208–09.
Bodelsen 1964
Bodelsen, Merete. Gauguin's Ceramics. London: Faber & Faber, 1964, p. 213, note 12.
Bodelsen 1970b
Bodelsen, Merete. "Gauguin, the Collector." The Burlington Magazine 112, no. 810 (September 1970), p. 605, Catalogue no. 4, fig. 18 (caricature by Stock), as Femme nue.
Rewald 1996
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. 140, as Femme nue.
Morehead 2017
Morehead, Allison. Nature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form. University Park, Pennsylvania: the Pennsylvania State university press, 2017, p. 59-61, as La Femme du vidangeur.
Nagaï 2021b
Nagaï, Takanori. "Cezanne chez Gauguin." Aesthetics, nos. 23-24 (2021), p. 32, fig. 7.
Notes

The painting appeared in a caricature by Stock of two of Cézanne's paintings (the other was the portrait of Emperaire, FWN423) that were rejected in the 1870 Salon.  The painting was described in detail by the Danish critic Karl Madsen in 1889 in an exhibition catalogue [see exhibition list], although the canvas was not shown "in due respect to Copenhagen's state of absolute innocence. It is neither a particularly attractive nor a particularly good picture, and its absence cannot be described as a loss.  The elderly woman displays the sad ruins of her charms stretched on a dazzling white sheet, one hand grasping a folded fan; cloth of a dull vermillion is draped over a chair; in a corner on the black wall hangs a small picture.... The color of the figure is reminiscent of the dregs of a bad claret.... The painting is remarkable only in its brushwork, which with its violent energy and arough swirling contour seeks to give the impression of the greatness and force of a master hand...." (quoted in Rewald, 1996, pp/ 119–20)

Femme nue, Before 1870 (FWN 595-TA). Caricature by Stock
Caricature by Stock

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Record last updated May 9, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Femme nue, Before 1870 (FWN 595-TA)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=151 (accessed on March 29, 2024).