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Catalogue entry

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)
Christie's, New York

Keywords

Provenance
Henri Rouart, Paris;
Rouart Collection, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, Dec. 9–11, 1912, no. 93, ill.
Jos. Hessel, Paris
Auguste Pellerin, Paris;
Jean-Victor Pellerin, Paris;
Professor D. Carlstrom, Sweden;
Sotheby's, London, Apr. 4, 1989, no. 30, ill.
Private collection;
Sotheby's, London, Feb. 4, 2015, no. 138, ill.
Anne Ulnick Gumowitz, New York;
Christie's, New York, November 11, 2023, no. 838
Exhibition History
1984 Lausanne
Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland, L'Impressionnisme dans les collections romandes, June 17–October 21, 1984, no. 103.
2014–15b New York
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 1912c
Alexandre, Arsène. La Collection Henry Rouart. Paris: Goupil & Cie, 1912, p. 70, listed, as Femme et enfant.
Borgmeyer 1913
Borgmeyer, Charles Louis. The Master Impressionists. Chicago: The Fine Arts Press, 1913, p. 276, ill., as Woman and Child.
Stuart 1917
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 1920
Faure, Elie. "Toujours Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 1, no. 8 (December 1920), ill. p. 269, as Maternité.
Zeisho 1921
Zeisho, Atzouji. Paul Cézanne. Tokyo: Rakuyodo, Taisho, 1921, fig. 32.
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 201, listed, ill. p. 142, as Femme et enfant, dated 1873.
Faure 1923a
Faure, Élie. P. Cézanne. Paris, 1923, pl. 3, as Maternité.
D'Ors 1930
Ors, Eugenio d.' Paul Cézanne. Paris: Editions des Chroniques du Jour, 1930, p. 37, ill.
Rivière 1933
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 29, ill.
Di San Lazzaro 1936
Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1936, fig. 50 (cropped).
D'Ors 1936a
Ors, Eugenio d.' Paul Cézanne. New York: E. Weyhe, 1936, pl. 50.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 233, ill. vol. II, as Femme allaitant son enfant.
Rewald 1937a
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 1942
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 31, ill.
Gachet 1956
Gachet, Paul. Deux amis des impressionnistes: le Docteur Gachet et Murer. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1956, fig. 21.
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. 216, ill. vol. 2, as Femme allaitant son enfant.
Machotka 2008
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 2014
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 2018
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 81.
Dauberville 2020
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.
Cezanne 2021
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 20, 2024).