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Catalogue entry

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)
Vollard archives: photo no. 323, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Madame Cezanne, 1875–80
Private collection, Buenos Aires

Keywords

Provenance
Armand Guillaumin, Paris
Camentron & Martin, Paris
Goupil [Theo van Gogh], Paris
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Galerie E. Bignou, Paris
Knoedler Galleries, New York
Hugo Perls, New York
Wilhelm Weinberg, Scarsdale;
sale, Weinberg Collection, Sotheby's, London, July 10, 1957, no. 15, ill.
Max Müller, Solothurn
Private collection, Buenos Aires
Exhibition History
1936c London
Reid & Lefevre, London, Boudin and Some Contemporaries, October 1936, no. 19.
1956 The Hague
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 8, ill.
1956 Zurich
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Paul Cézanne, August 22–October 7, 1956, no. 13.
1956 Munich
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 9, ill. lent by Weinberg.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 226, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.
Van Buren 1966
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 1970
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, pp. 14, 73 no. 31.
Rewald 1975b
Rewald, John. "Cézanne et Guillaumin." Etudes d'art français offertes à Charles Sterling. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1975, fig. 211.
Rewald 1986
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 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. 180, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.
Reff 1997a
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 2014
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 2014
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 and Hurtu 2021
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.

Portrait de Madame Cezanne, c.1872 (FWN 431-TA). Armand Guillaumin, La Seine à Paris, 1871, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Armand Guillaumin, La Seine à Paris, 1871, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Portrait de Madame Cezanne, c.1872 (FWN 431-TA). Armand Guillaumin, Portrait of Dr. Martinez, 1878
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 April 23, 2024).