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 599
La Douleur; La Madeleine
c.1869
Alternate titles: Christus in der Vorhölle, Wanddekoration im Jas de Bouffan; La Douleur; La Douleur or La Madeleine; La Douleur ou La Madeleine; La Madeleine; La Madeleine ou la Douleur; Madeleine; Madeleine pénitent ou La Douleur; Madeleine repentante; Sorrow; Sorrow (La Douleur); Wandbild in Jas de Bouffan
Rewald (146): c.1869; Venturi revised: c.1867; Venturi (86): 1864–68; Rivière: c.1868; Cooper: 1865–66 and slightly later than 1865–66 (L'Oeil); Gowing: 1867 or 1868 (Burlington) and c.1867 (London); Ratcliffe: probably after No. 145
Mural transferred to canvas
65 x 48 13/16 in. (165 x 124 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Französische Kunst des XIX. und XX. Jahrhunderts, October 5–November 14, 1917, no. 20, as La Douleur, lent by A.K[ann].
de Zayas Gallery, New York, [group exhibition], February–March 1921.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings, May 3–September 15, 1921, no. 2, as Sorrow (La Douleur), lent by anon. [de Zayas].
Orangerie, Paris, Monticelli et le baroque provençal, June 19–September 15, 1953, no. 2, pl. XXIV, as La Madeleine ou la Douleur, c. 1864-1868, lent by Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 12, pl. V, lent by Musée du Louvre.
Orangerie, Paris, Vingt ans d'acquisitions au musée du Louvre 1947-1967, December 1967–March 1968, no. 401, as La Madeleine ou la Douleur.
Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne dans les musées nationaux, July 19–October 14, 1974, extended until October 28, no. 1, ill. in b/w, as Madeleine pénitent ou La Douleur, c. 1865-1868.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 33, ill. with a photograph of Le Christ aux limbes et la Madeleine before the painting was cut; see also p. 13 (p. 25 French ed.) fig. 10. Traveled to: Musée d'Orsay, Cézanne: les années de jeunesse 1859-1872, Paris, September 19, 1988–January 1, 1989; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., January 29–April 30, 1989.
Musée du Louvre, Paris, Copier Créer: de Turner à Picasso: 300 œuvres inspirées par les maîtres du Louvre, April 26–July 26, 1993, no. 318, ill., as La Douleur ou La Madeleine, lent by Musée d'Orsay.
Grand Palais, Paris, Impressionnisme: Les origines, 1859–1869, April 19–August 8, 1994, no. 27, fig. 66. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Origins of Impressionism, September 19, 1994–January 8, 1995.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Le décor impressionniste: aux sources des nymphéas, March 2–July 11, 2022, no. 31, ill., p. 63.
Published References
Le Curieux. "Quatre panneaux décoratifs de Cézanne." La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe (Paris), vol. 1, no. 2 (April 1918), p. 34, as Madeleine.
Coquiot, Gustave. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Ollendorf, 1919, pp. 41, 214, as Madeleine repentante.
Carroll, Raymond. "Art Atrocities Puzzles Critics." Evening Public Ledger (Philadelphia), September 7, 1921, p. 5, as Sorrow.
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Munich: Kurt Wolfe Verlag, 1921, ill. opp. p. 22, as Christus in der Vorhölle, Wanddekoration im Jas de Bouffan, dated circa 1863.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, pl. p. 102, as La Madeleine.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 97, as Wandbild in Jas de Bouffan, c. 1868 (illustration includes part of Christ aux limbes.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 199, listed.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, pl. [31] hors texte, as La Madeleine.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 15.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 86, ill. vol. II, as La Douleur ou La Madeleine.
Adhémar, Hélène. Catalogue des peintures, pastels, sculptures impressionnistes du Musée du Louvre. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1958, p. 15, no. 29.
Bazin, Germain. Trésors de l'impressionnisme au Louvre. Paris: A. Somogy, 1958, pp. 114–115, ill. c. 1866-1868.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, listed p. 154.
Sterling, Charles, and Hélène Adhémar. La Peinture au Musée du Louvre, vol. I. Paris: Éditions des Musées Nationaux, 1958, fig. 246.
Adhémar, Hélène, and Anne Dayez. Musée du Jeu de Paume. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1973, listed p. 140, ill. p. 17, as La Madeleine ou la Douleur, c. 1865-68.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 56, ill.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "Cézanne's 'Harrowing of Hell and the Magdalen.'" Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 98, periode 6 (April 1981), pp. 175–78, fig. 1 (photograph of the entire mural before division).
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne: The Severed Head and the Skull." Arts Magazine 58, no. 2 (October 1983), p. 92, fig. 9.
Ely, Bruno. "Cézanne, L'Ecole de dessin et le Musée d'Aix." In Cézanne au Musée d'Aix. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1984. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 177.
Kiefer, Carol. "Cézanne's 'Magdalen': A New Source in the Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 103, periode 6 (Feb. 1984), pp. 91–94, fig. 1.
Wetzel, Christoph. Paul Cézanne: Leben u. Werk. Stuttgart/Zurich: Belser, 1984, p. 14, ill. in color.
Compin, Isabelle et Anne Roquebert. Catalogue sommaire illustré des peintures du musée du Louvre et du musée d'Orsay. 3, École Française, A-K. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1986, p. 114, ill., as La Madeleine ou la Douleur, c. 1868-69.
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 27, ill. in color.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 40, ill.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, pp. 25, 38, and 47–62, pl. II.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 87, fig. 1.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 77.
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. 146, ill. vol. 2 and p. 27, ill. col. vol. 1, as La Douleur or La Madeleine.
Coutagne, Denis. "Approche contradictoire d'un thème: Le Jas de Bouffan chez Cézanne." In Cézanne aujourd'hui. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1997, pp. 80-81, fig. 28 (photograph of the entire mural before division).
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 68, fig. 2.17, as La Douleur or La Madeleine, with Christ aux limbes.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "Cézanne's Paintings in the Grand Salon at Jas de Bouffan." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 73, ill. in color.
Dittmann, Lorenz. Die Kunst Cézannes: Farbe, Rythmus, Symbolik. Cologne: Böhlau, 2005, p. 144, ill. in b/w.
Tosini, Aurora Scotti. "Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)." In Cézanne, Renoir. Milan: Skira, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 48, ill.
Kitschen, Friederike. "Melancholie und 'décoration.' Zur Stimmung im Werk Paul Cézannes." In Stimmung. Ästhetische Kategorie und künstlerische Praxis, edited by Kerstin Thomas. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2010, p. 81, ill.
Locke, Nancy. "The Radical Style and Local Context of Cézanne’s Mary Magdalen (Sorrow)." Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Autumn 2012.
Masurovsky, Marc. "Alphonse Kann: 1802 oeuvres volées, un record." In Œuvres volées, destins brisés: l’histoire des collections juives pillées par les nazis. [Issy-les-Moulineaux]: Beaux Arts-TTM, 2013, p. 126, ill. p. 124, as La Madeleine ou la Douleur.
Nagaï, Takanori. "Cézanne and Jas de Bouffan." In Le "basho" dans l'art moderne français. Tokyo: Sangensha, 2016, p. 115, ill.
Cezanne, Jas de Bouffan: art et histoire. Under the scientific direction of Denis Coutagne and François Chédeville. Lyon; Aix-en-Provence: Fage édition; Société Paul Cezanne, 2019, fig. 109 p. 123, (fig. 106 photo of mural before division p. 122) (fig. 227 digital reconstitution of the Jas de Bouffan's Grand Salon after 1867 p. 243).
Notes
Possible influence of Domenico Fetti's Melancholy (Louvre, c. 1620).
Domenico Fetti, Melancholy, c. 1620. Musée du Louvre, Paris
IIllustration in Julius Meier-Graefe's 1922 edition of Cézanne und sein Kreis, 1922
Interior of the salon of the Jas de Bouffan in 1912.
John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Record last updated September 27, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Douleur; La Madeleine, c.1869 (FWN 599), Mural transferred to canvas." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=155 (accessed on January 21, 2025).
