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 1735
Madame Cezanne cousant
c.1880
Alternate titles: Madame Cézanne cousant; Madame Cézanne sewing; Portrait of Hortense Fiquet (Madame Cézanne Sewing)
Chappuis (729); Venturi (1466): 1886–90
Graphite on laid paper
Watermark: INGRES and P L BAS
18 9/16 x 12 3/16 in. (47.2 x 30.9 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Teekeningen van Ingres tot Seurat, December 20, 1933–January 21, 1934, no. 5.
Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam, Fransche meesters uit de XIX eeuw: teekeningen, aquarellen, pastels [...], July–August 1938, no. 20, ill.
Société des artistes indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, 50e exposition - Centenaire du peintre indépendant Paul Cézanne, March 17–April 10, 1939, no. 44, as Madame Cézanne cousant, c. 1886-90, lent by Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam.
Paul Cassirer Ltd, London, Paul Cézanne – Water Colours, July 1939, no. 2, as Madame Cézanne sewing, dated 1886–90, For sale.
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September 19–November 4, 1973, no. 66, ill. in b/w, catalogue note: p. 164, as Madame Cézanne sewing, lent by Count Antoine Seilern, London; shown in London only. Traveled to: Hayward Gallery, London, November 13–December 30, 1973.
British Museum, London, Mantegna to Cézanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, 1983, no. 99, ill., as Madame Cézanne sewing.
Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Related Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, May 11–September 4, 1988, no. 5.
The Courtauld Gallery, London, The Courtauld Cézannes, June 26–October 5, 2008, no. 11, pp. 110-113, ill. in color p. 111, as Portrait of Hortense Fiquet (Madame Cézanne Sewing), c. 1880.
Courtauld Gallery, London, Master Drawings from the Courtauld Gallery, June 14–September 9, 2012, no. 52, ill. Traveled to: Frick Collection, New York, October 2, 2012–January 27, 2013.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Madame Cézanne, November 19, 2014–March 15, 2015, n.n., pl. 44, lent by Courtauld Institute of Art.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 64, Courtauld Gallery, London.
Published References
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 37 (detail).
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 37 (detail).
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1466, ill. vol. II, as Madame Cézanne cousant.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 67, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 729, ill., as Madame Cézanne sewing.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 68, no. 11, ill. p. 73, as Madame Cézanne cousant, c. 1880.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 101, fig. 36.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. London and Princeton, N,J.: National Portrait Gallery Publications and Princeton University Press, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 38.
Record last updated September 8, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Madame Cezanne cousant, c.1880 (FWN 1735)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2405 (accessed on May 2, 2025).
