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 1736
Tête de madame Cezanne
c.1880
Alternate titles: Bildnis Madame Cézanne; Head of Mme Cézanne; Madame Cézanne; Portrait de Madame Cézanne; Portrait of Mme Cézanne; Tête de madame Cézanne
Chappuis (736)
Graphite on laid paper
6 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. (17.2 x 12 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York, Nineteenth Century Influences in French Drawing, August–September 1952, no. 27.
Fine Arts Associates [Otto Gerson], New York, Cézanne: Rarely Shown Works, November 10–29, 1952, [D] 5, ill.
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 118, ill. lent by John Rewald, New York.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 89, lent by John Rewald.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 137, ill. c. 1885, lent by John Rewald, New York.
Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Rewald, March 31–April 19, 1959, no. 14, ill.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 65, ill. lent by Mr. and Mrs. John Rewald.
Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany, Wegbereiter der modernen Malerei: Cézanne, Gauguin, van Gogh, Seurat, May 4–July 14, 1963, no. 28, pl. 77, as Madame Cézanne, c. 1880, lent by Berggruen collection, Paris.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 102, ill., as Portrait de Madame Cézanne, c. 1880, lent by Heinz Bergruen, Paris. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 65, ill. p. 161, as Bildnis Madame Cézanne, 1895-1896, lent by private collection, Paris.
Collection Lambert, Avignon, France, Collections d'artistes, July 1–October 30, 2001, ill., p. 116, Collection Jasper Johns.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Madame Cézanne, November 19, 2014–March 15, 2015, n.n., pl. 38, lent by Jasper Johns.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 73, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, vol. I, p. 350, listed (Collection Vollard).
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 89, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 736, ill., as Head of Mme Cézanne.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 68, no. 10, ill. p. 73, as Tête de madame Cézanne, c. 1880.
Johns, Jasper and Richard Shiff. "Flicker in the Work: Jasper Johns and Richard Shiff." Master Drawings, vol. 44, no. 3 (Autumn 2006), pp. 285-286, fig. 9, as Portrait of Mme Cézanne, c. 1883-85.
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. "Tête de madame Cezanne, c.1880 (FWN 1736)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2412 (accessed on May 2, 2025).
