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 618
Femme allaitant son enfant
c.1872
Alternate titles: Femme et enfant; Jeune femme allaitant son enfant; Maternité; Woman and Child; Woman Nursing Her Child
Rewald (216): c.1872; Venturi revised: c.1872; Venturi (233): 1872; Rivière: 1873; Other: Gachet: Auvers 1873
Oil on canvas
8 11/16 x 8 11/16 in. (22 x 22 cm)
Provenance
Private collection;
Exhibition History
Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland, L'Impressionnisme dans les collections romandes, June 17–October 21, 1984, no. 103.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Madame Cézanne, November 19, 2014–March 15, 2015, n.n., pl. 3 (added to exhibition in February 2015).
Published References
Alexandre, Arsène. La Collection Henry Rouart. Paris: Goupil & Cie, 1912, p. 70, listed, as Femme et enfant.
Borgmeyer, Charles Louis. The Master Impressionists. Chicago: The Fine Arts Press, 1913, p. 276, ill., as Woman and Child.
Stuart, Evelyn Marie. "Cézanne and His Place in Impressionism." Fine Arts Journal 35, no. 5 (May 1917), p. 330, ill., as Woman and Child.
Faure, Elie. "Toujours Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 1, no. 8 (December 1920), ill. p. 269, as Maternité.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 201, listed, ill. p. 142, as Femme et enfant, dated 1873.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 29, ill.
Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1936, fig. 50 (cropped).
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 233, ill. vol. II, as Femme allaitant son enfant.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 54, as Jeune femme allaitant son enfant (erroneously listed as Venturi 223).
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 31, ill.
Gachet, Paul. Deux amis des impressionnistes: le Docteur Gachet et Murer. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1956, fig. 21.
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. 216, ill. vol. 2, as Femme allaitant son enfant.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 117; vol. 2, p. 91, as Femme allaitant son enfant.
Kremnitzer, Kathryn. "The Portraits of Hortense Fiquet, Madame Cézanne." In Madame Cézanne. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 192, listed, p. 23, pl. 3, as Woman Nursing Her Child.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 81.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 170, ill., as Femme allaitant son enfant.
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 139.
Notes
This small and intimate painting represents Hortense Fiquet, who had given birth to Cézanne's son on January 4, 1872. It may have been painted in Pontoise or Auvers-sur-Oise. As Rewald (1996, p. 158) noted: "This may very well have been one of the first pictures Cézanne painted inside after his 'conversion' to Impressionism; as such it strikes a new note in his work and, at the same time, reveals some of the tenderness inherent to the recent experience of fatherhood."
Record last updated November 19, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Femme allaitant son enfant, c.1872 (FWN 618)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=220 (accessed on April 18, 2024).
