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 431-TA
Portrait de Madame Cezanne
c.1872
Alternate titles: Portrait de Madame Cézanne; Portrait of Hortense Fiquet; Portrait of Madame Cézanne
Rewald (180): c.1872; Venturi revised: c.1872; Venturi (226): 1871–73
Oil on canvas
18 1/8 x 14 11/16 in. (46 x 37.4 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3471, huile; portrait de femme en gris assise les mains croisées, 46 x 38 cm (200 frs)
Private collection, Buenos Aires
Provenance
Private collection, Buenos Aires
Exhibition History
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 8, ill.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 9, ill. lent by Weinberg.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 226, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.
Buren, Anne H. van. "Madame Cézanne's Fashions and the Dates of Her Portraits." Art Quarterly 29, no. 2 (1966), fig. 3, p. 117.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, pp. 14, 73 no. 31.
Rewald, John. "Cézanne et Guillaumin." Etudes d'art français offertes à Charles Sterling. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1975, fig. 211.
Rewald, John. "Cézanne and Guillaumin." In Studies in Impressionism, Edited by Irene Gordon and Frances Weitzenhoffer. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., p. 103, fig. 52, as Portrait of Hortense Fiquet.
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. 180, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.
Reff, Theodore. Review of The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, by John Rewald, in collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. The Burlington Magazine 139, no. 1136 (November 1997), p. 801, questions Feilchenfeldt's rejection of work.
Cézanne, Philippe. "My Great-Grandmother Marie-Hortense Fiquet." In Madame Cézanne. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 38, fig. 9, as Portrait of Madame Cézanne.
Kremnitzer, Kathryn. "The Portraits of Hortense Fiquet, Madame Cézanne." In Madame Cézanne. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 191, listed, p. 38, fig. 9, as Portrait of Madame Cézanne.
Chédeville, François, and Raymond Hurtu. "Cezanne sur les bords de Marne." Société Cezanne, August 2021, fig. 15.
Notes
This work appears in Armand Guillaumin's, Portrait of Dr. Martinez, 1878, painted in the artist's studio. Guillaumin's La Seine à Paris hangs above the sitter's head.
Venturi (1936) described the colors in the painting as: "Fond gris-vert. Table brune. Robe brun-gris. Chairs roses. Cheveux et foulard noirs avec touches brunes."
Van Buren (1966) saw similarities in Hortense's dress to that worn in Madame Cezanne accoudée, 1873–74 (432), except for velvet bands.
Armand Guillaumin, La Seine à Paris, 1871, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Armand Guillaumin, Portrait of Dr. Martinez, 1878
Record last updated January 24, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de Madame Cezanne, c.1872 (FWN 431-TA)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=186 (accessed on March 28, 2025).
