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Catalogue entry

FWN 2274
Feuille d'études avec madame Cezanne cousant
c.1877
Alternate titles: Bildnis der Frau Cezannes und des Dr. Chocquet; Madame Cézanne cousant. Portrait de Chocquet; Page of studies; Page of studies, including Mme. Cezanne sewing
Venturi (1240): 1878–85; Chappuis (398): 1877–80
Graphite on wove paper
7 15/16 x 9 5/16 in. (20.2 x 23.6 cm)
Jasper Johns

Keywords

Provenance
Kenneth Clark, London
Wildenstein Galleries, Paris, London, and New York (1961)
Benjamin Sonnenberg, New York
Sotheby's, New York, June 9, 1979, no. 1430, ill.
Private collection
Christie's, London, Feb. 5, 2009, no. 117
Jasper Johns
Exhibition History
1936 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 160, as Bildnis der Frau Cezannes und des Dr. Chocquet, c. 1880, lent by Kenneth Clark, London.
1961 Vienna
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 104, c. 1880.
1971 New York
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Artists and Writers: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Portrait Drawings from the Collection of Benjamin Sonnenberg, May 13–July 30, 1971, no. 17, ill.
2014–15b New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Madame Cézanne, November 19, 2014–March 15, 2015, n.n., pl. 39, lent by Jasper Johns.
2017 Basel
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 76, ill.
2023–24 Basel
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Jasper Johns – The Artist as Collector, From Cezanne to de Kooning, September 30, 2023–February 4, 2024, no. 6, ill.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1240, ill. vol. II, as Madame Cézanne cousant. Portrait de Chocquet.
Van Buren 1966
Buren, Anne H. van. "Madame Cézanne's Fashions and the Dates of Her Portraits." Art Quarterly 29, no. 2 (1966), p. 115ff, note 20.
Apollo 1967
Apollo (1967), p. 181, ill.
Andersen 1967a
Andersen, Wayne V. "Cézanne, Tanguy, Choquet [sic]." The Art Bulletin 49, no. 2 (June 1967), p. 137, fig. 7.
Andersen 1970
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, nos. 33 and 212 (detail), ill.
Chappuis 1973
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 398, ill., as Page of studies, including Mme. Cezanne sewing.
Venturi 1978
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 68, no. 04, ill. p. 70, 1877-80.
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 128; vol. 2, p. 97, as Page of studies.
Prat 2011
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 606, no. 1450, ill. in b/w, as Feuille d'études avec madame Cezanne cousant, 1877-1880.

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Record last updated April 9, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Feuille d'études avec madame Cezanne cousant, c.1877 (FWN 2274)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2057 (accessed on May 3, 2024).