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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)
Catalogue entry
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
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Simon Meller, Budapest, Paris and Munich
Paul Cassirer, Berlin (1933)
Baron H. von Simolin, Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam
Count Antoine Seilern, London (1941);
The Courtauld Gallery, London (1978)
Exhibition History
1933–34b Rotterdam
Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Teekeningen van Ingres tot Seurat, December 20, 1933–January 21, 1934, no. 5.1938c Amsterdam
Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam, Fransche meesters uit de XIX eeuw: teekeningen, aquarellen, pastels [...], July–August 1938, no. 20, ill.1939b Paris
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.1939e London
Paul Cassirer Ltd, London, Paul Cézanne – Water Colours, July 1939, no. 2, as Madame Cézanne sewing, dated 1886–90, For sale.1973 Newcastle upon Tyne and traveling
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, 1973.1981b London
Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, Princes Gate Collection, 1981, no. 133.1983a London
British Museum, London, Mantegna to Cézanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, 1983, no. 99, ill., as Madame Cézanne sewing.1988 London
Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Related Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, May 11–September 4, 1988, no. 5.2008 London
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. 1880.2012–13 London and traveling
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, 2013.2014–15b New York
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.2021a New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 64, Courtauld Gallery, London.Published References
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, frontispiece, ill.Meier-Graefe 1918a
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 1922
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1466, ill. vol. II, as Madame Cézanne cousant.Andersen 1970
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 67, ill.Chappuis 1973
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 1978
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 68, no. 11, ill. p. 73, as Madame Cézanne cousant, c. 1880.Elderfield, Morton, Rey 2017
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 101, fig. 36.Elderfield, Morton, Rey 2017a
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.
Title page of Ambroise Vollard, Paul Cézanne, 1914
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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 April 26, 2024).
