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 3015-09b
Tête de madame Cezanne
1886–89
Alternate titles: Head of Mme Cezanne; Portrait de Mme Cézanne; Portrait of Madame Cézanne; Portrait of Mme Cézanne
Chappuis (1064); Venturi (1304)
Graphite on wove paper, p. IX verso from the CP III sketchbook
6 x 9 5/16 in. (15.2 x 23.7 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 156, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne, c. 1885-87, lent by Adrien Chappius, Paris.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 63, ill., as Portrait de Mme Cézanne, 1879-82, lent by Chappuis.
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 65, as Portrait of Mme Cézanne, c. 1885, lent by Adrien Chappuis.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 87, as Portrait of Madame Cézanne, c. 1885, lent by A. Chappius.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1304, ill. vol. II, as "Page IX v."
Perruchot, Henri. La vie de Cézanne. Paris: Hachette, 1956, p. 277, ill. (in reverse).
Chappuis, Adrien. Album de Paul Cézanne. Paris: Berggruen, 1966, vol. 1, p. 28, ill. vol. 2, 1887-89.
Buren, Anne H. van. "Madame Cézanne's Fashions and the Dates of Her Portraits." Art Quarterly 29, no. 2 (1966), p. 115, dated 1886–89.
Reff, Theodore. Review of Album de Paul Cézanne, by Adrien Chappuis, ed, preface by Roseline Bacou. The Burlington Magazine 109, no. 776 (November 1967), pp. 652 and 653, c. 1890.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 71, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 1064, ill., as Portrait of Mme Cézanne.
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 282, ill.
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Washington, c.1877–1900 (3015)
Sketchbook Washington, c.1877–1900 (3015)
This sketchbook is bound and the page numbers are written in Roman numerals on the "a" (recto) side of the sheet at bottom right. The notation "LIIIIx2" on the inside back cover indicates that the sketchbook originally contained fifty-four sheets. However, pages XLI to XLVIII have since been removed.
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Record last updated July 18, 2022. 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, 1886–89 (FWN 3015-09b), p. IX verso from the CP III sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2753 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
