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Catalogue entry

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)

Keywords

Provenance
Jas de Bouffan, Aix-en-Provence
Louis Granel, Aix-en-Provence
Jos. Hessel, Paris
Alphonse Kann, Saint-Germain-en-Laye;
Mme Hélène Bokanowski, Paris (c. 1948)
Musée du Louvre, Paris (1952);
Musée du Louvre, galerie du Jeu de Paume, Paris (1952-1986);
Musée d'Orsay, Paris (1986)
Exhibition History
1917 Zurich
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].
1921a New York
de Zayas Gallery, New York, [group exhibition], February–March 1921.
1921c New York
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].
1953c Paris
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.
1954 Paris
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 12, pl. V, lent by Musée du Louvre.
1967–1968a Paris
Orangerie, Paris, Vingt ans d'acquisitions au musée du Louvre 1947-1967, December 1967–March 1968, no. 401, as La Madeleine ou la Douleur.
1974b Paris
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.
1988–89a London and traveling
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.
1993b Paris
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.
1994–95 Paris and traveling
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.
2022 Paris
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 1918
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 1919
Coquiot, Gustave. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Ollendorf, 1919, pp. 41, 214, as Madeleine repentante.
Carroll 1921
Carroll, Raymond. "Art Atrocities Puzzles Critics." Evening Public Ledger (Philadelphia), September 7, 1921, p. 5, as Sorrow.
Vollard 1921
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 1921b
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, pl. p. 102, as La Madeleine.
Meier-Graefe 1922
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 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 199, listed.
Gasquet 1926
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, pl. [31] hors texte, as La Madeleine.
Pfister 1927
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 15.
D'Ors 1930
Ors, Eugenio d.' Paul Cézanne. Paris: Editions des Chroniques du Jour, 1930, p. 50, ill.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 86, ill. vol. II, as La Douleur ou La Madeleine.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, p. 16.
Cooper 1955a
Cooper, Douglas. "Au Jas de Bouffan." L'Oeil 2 (February 15, 1955), pp. 16, 46.
Adhémar 1958
Adhémar, Hélène. Catalogue des peintures, pastels, sculptures impressionnistes du Musée du Louvre. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1958, p. 15, no. 29.
Bazin 1958
Bazin, Germain. Trésors de l'impressionnisme au Louvre. Paris: A. Somogy, 1958, pp. 114–115, ill. c. 1866-1868.
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, listed p. 154.
Sterling and Adhémar 1958
Sterling, Charles, and Hélène Adhémar. La Peinture au Musée du Louvre, vol. I. Paris: Éditions des Musées Nationaux, 1958, fig. 246.
Adhémar et al. 1973
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 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 56, ill.
Elgar 1975
Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 14.
Adriani 1980
Adriani, Götz. Paul Cézanne: 'Der Liebeskampf'. Munich: Piper, 1980, p. 57, pl. 10.
Ponente 1980
Ponente, Nello. Paul Cézanne. Bologna: Capitol, 1980, p. 23, ill.
Lewis 1981
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).
Plazy 1981
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne. Fribourg: Editions Medea, 1981, p. 112.
Reff 1983
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne: The Severed Head and the Skull." Arts Magazine 58, no. 2 (October 1983), p. 92, fig. 9.
Ely 1984
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 1984
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 1984
Wetzel, Christoph. Paul Cézanne: Leben u. Werk. Stuttgart/Zurich: Belser, 1984, p. 14, ill. in color.
Compin et al. 1986
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.
Kendall 1988
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 39, ill.
Plazy 1988
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 27, ill. in color.
Düchting 1989
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 40, ill.
Lewis 1989
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, pp. 25, 38, and 47–62, pl. II.
Verdi 1992
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 31, fig. 18.
Cachin and Rishel 1995
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 87, fig. 1.
Cahn 1995b
Cahn, Isabelle. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 1995, p. 43, ill.
Coutagne et al. 1996
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 77.
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. 146, ill. vol. 2 and p. 27, ill. col. vol. 1, as La Douleur or La Madeleine.
Coutagne 1997
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 2003
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 2004
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 2005
Dittmann, Lorenz. Die Kunst Cézannes: Farbe, Rythmus, Symbolik. Cologne: Böhlau, 2005, p. 144, ill. in b/w.
Tosini 2005
Tosini, Aurora Scotti. "Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)." In Cézanne, Renoir. Milan: Skira, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 48, ill.
Kitschen 2010
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 2012
Locke, Nancy. "The Radical Style and Local Context of Cézanne’s Mary Magdalen (Sorrow)." Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Autumn 2012.
Masurovsky 2013a
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 2016
Nagaï, Takanori. "Cézanne and Jas de Bouffan." In Le "basho" dans l'art moderne français. Tokyo: Sangensha, 2016, p. 115, ill.
Société Paul Cezanne 2019
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).

La Douleur; La Madeleine, c.1869 (FWN 599). Domenico Fetti, Melancholy, c. 1620. Musée du Louvre, Paris
Domenico Fetti, Melancholy, c. 1620. Musée du Louvre, Paris
La Douleur; La Madeleine, c.1869 (FWN 599). IIllustration in Julius Meier-Graefe's 1922 edition of Cézanne und sein Kreis, 1922
IIllustration in Julius Meier-Graefe's 1922 edition of Cézanne und sein Kreis, 1922
La Douleur; La Madeleine, c.1869 (FWN 599). 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.
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 March 29, 2024).