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Catalogue entry

Erik Cornelius; © The National Museum of Fine Arts
FWN 442
Madame Cezanne cousant
c.1877
Alternate titles: Madame Cézanne; Madame Cézanne au fauteuil rouge; Madame Cézanne cousant; Madame Cézanne Sewing; Nähende Frau (Madame Cézanne); Portrait de Mme Cézanne; Portrait of the Artist's Wife; Porträt
Rewald (323): c.1877; Venturi revised: c.1877; Venturi (291): c.1877; Rivière: 1877
Oil on canvas
23 7/16 x 19 1/2 in. (59.5 x 49.5 cm)
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (Gift of Grace and Philip Sandblom)

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Alphonse Kann, Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Wilhelm Hansen, Ordrupgaard
Jos. Hessel, Paris
Paul Rosenberg, Paris
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris
Philip Sandblom, Stockholm (1939);
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (1970)
Exhibition History
1909b Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XII. Jahrgang, III. Ausstellung, November 17–December 12, 1909, no. 4, as Nähende Frau (Madame Cézanne), lent by Vollard.
1917 Zurich
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Französische Kunst des XIX. und XX. Jahrhunderts, October 5–November 14, 1917, no. 9, ill., as Madame Cézanne, lent by A.K[ann].
1926b Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition rétrospective Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) au profit de la caisse du Monument Cézanne, June 1–30, 1926, no. 29, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne, propably lent by Hessel; shown in an installation photo in Dauberville, 2020, p. 117.
1928a Paris
Galerie de la Renaissance, Paris, Portraits et figures de femmes: Ingres à Picasso, June 1–30, 1928, no. 29, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne, lent by J. Hessel.
1929 New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The museum's first loan exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, November 8–December 7, 1929, no. 6, ill., (dated c. 1880), as Madame Cézanne Sewing, lent by Joseph Hessel.
1930a Paris
Galerie Pigalle, Paris, Exposition Cèzanne, 1839–1906, January 4–February 7, 1930, no. 22, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne, lent by Hessel.
1934b New York
Durand-Ruel and Paul Rosenberg, Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, Great French Masters of the Nineteenth Century, February 12–March 10, 1934, no. 2, ill., (dated 1880), as Madame Cézanne cousant.
1936 Toledo
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Cézanne and Gauguin, November 1–December 13, 1936, no. 33, ill., as Madame Cézanne au fauteuil rouge, lent by Durand-Ruel, New York.
1938c New York
Galerie Durand-Ruel, New York, Cézanne, March 28–April 19, 1938, no. 9.
1954 Stockholm
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Cézanne till Picasso, fransk konst i svensk ägo, September 1954, no. 67, ill. p. 19, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne, 1880.
1997–98 Stockholm
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Cézanne i blickpunkten, October 17, 1997–January 11, 1998, no. 3, ill., pp. 32–35.
2002–03 Stockholm and traveling
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Impressionism and the North: Late 19th Century French Avant-Garde Art and the Art in the Nordic Countries 1870–1920, September 25, 2002–January 19, 2003, no. 31, ill., p. 197, as Portrait of the Artist's Wife. Traveled to: Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark, February 21–May 25, 2003.
2008 Humlebæk
Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, Cézanne & Giacometti: Paths of Doubt, February 20–June 29, 2008, no. 7, ill. p. 50, as Madame Cézanne cousant, lent by Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
2011–12 Paris
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne et Paris, October 12, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 56, ill., p. 187, as Madame Cézanne cousant, lent by Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
2014–15b New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Madame Cézanne, November 19, 2014–March 15, 2015, n.n., pl. 5, as Madame Cézanne Sewing, lent by Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
2017 Paris
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 23, ill.
2017–18 Paris and traveling
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 7.2, ill. Traveled to: National Portrait Gallery, London, October 26, 2017–February 11, 2018; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, March 25–July 1, 2018.
Published References
Duret 1907
Duret, Théodore. "Paul Cézanne." Kunst und Künstler 5, no. 3 (1907), ill. p. 103, as Porträt.
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. 134.
Faure 1921
Faure, Élie. Histoire de l'Art. L'Art moderne. Paris: Les Éditions Crès, 1921, ill. p. 397.
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. 164.
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 204, listed.
Faure 1924
Faure, Élie. Histoire de l'art: l'art moderne. Paris: G. Crès, 1924, ill. p. 417.
Anonymous 1926
Anonymous. "L'exposition du peintre aixois Paul Cézanne." Le Petit Provençal, June 2, 1926, p. 2, as Madame Cézanne.
Remon 1926
Remon, G. "L'exposition Cézanne." Le Radical (Paris) (June 12, 1926), p. 2.
Thiébault-Sisson 1926
Thiébault-Sisson, François. "L'exposition Cézanne." Le Temps (Paris) (June 8, 1926), p. 4, as Madame Cézanne.
Dormoy 1926a
Dormoy, Marie, translated by Margarete Mauthner. "Die Cézanne - Ausstellung bei Bernheim-Jeune." Kunst und Künstler 24, no. 11 (1926), pp. 447-448.
Meier-Graefe 1927a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XL.
Alexandre 1928
Alexandre, Arsène. "Portraits et figures de femmes: Ingres à Picasso." La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe (Paris), vol. 11, no. 7 (July 1928), ill. p. 279, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne.
Jewell 1928
Jewell, Edward Alden. "Was Cézanne an Industrious 'Painter Without Taste'?" New York Times Book Review, January 22, 1928, p. 5, ill.
Bernard, T. 1930
Bernard, Tristan. "Jos Hessel." La Renaissance (Paris; New York), vol. 13, no. 1 (January 1930), ill. p. 13, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne.
Morsel 1934
Morselle, Mary. "French Paintings of the XIXth Century in Benefit Show: Mr. Rosenberg and Durand-Ruel Organize Remarkable Show Emphasizing French Loans Never Shown in America." Art News 32, no. 20 (February 17, 1934), p. 3, ill.
Raynal 1936
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. LXXI p. 103.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 291, ill. vol. II, as Madame Cézanne cousant.
Frankfurter 1938a
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Cézanne: Intimate Exhibition." Art News 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 15, ill.
Cogniat 1939a
Cogniat, Raymond. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1939, pl. 40.
Blomberg 1941
Blomberg, Erik. "Fransk-svensk konstallians." Konstrevy (Stockholm) 17, no. 4 (1941), p. 132, ill.
Ragghianti 1947
Ragghianti, Carlo Ludovico. L'Impressionismo. Turin: Chiantore, 1947, pl. XLV.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 47, listed pp. 150-151.
Guerry 1950
Guerry, Liliane. Cézanne et l'expression de l'espace. Paris: Flammarion, 1950, pp. 65–66.
Badt 1956
Badt, Kurt. Die Kunst Cézannes. Munich: Prestel, 1956, pl. 31.
Van Buren 1966
Buren, Anne H. van. "Madame Cézanne's Fashions and the Dates of Her Portraits." Art Quarterly 29, no. 2 (1966), p. 127, note 20.
Schapiro 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 57, ill.
Elgar 1975
Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 38.
Abel 1981
Abel, Ulf. "The Sandblom Collection." In The Grace and Philip Sandblom Collection. Stockholm: Nationalmuseum, 1981, p. 82, ill.
Kirsch 1987a
Kirsch, Robert. "Paul Cézanne: Jeune fille au piano and Some Portraits of His Wife. An Investigation of His Painting of the Late 1870's." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 110, periode 6 (July–August 1987), p. 21, fig. 2 p.24.
Lewis 1989
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, pp. 147–48.
Asmussen 1993
Asmussen, Marianne. Wilhelm Hansen's Original French Connection at Ordrupgaard. Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1993, pp. 280–81, ill.
Cachin and Rishel 1995
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 170, fig. 1.
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. 323, ill. vol. 2, as Madame Cézanne cousant.
Reff 1997a
Reff, Theodore. Review of The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, by John Rewald, in collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. The Burlington Magazine 139, no. 1136 (November 1997), p. 800, questions Rewald's date because of debate over the location of the wallpaper.
Prunster 1998
Prunster, Ursula. "Seeing Cézanne: Australian Affinities." In Classic Cézanne. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998. Exhibition catalogue, p. 64, fig. 28.
Feilchenfeldt, C. 2000a
Feilchenfeldt, Christina. "Portraits." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 135, fig. 1, as Madame Cézanne cousant.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer 2003
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 45, fig. 1.33, as Madame Cézanne cousant.
Leca 2011
Leca, Benedict. "Le Monde est une pomme: nature mortes et portraits parisiens de Cézanne." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 117, ill., as Madame Cézanne cousant.
Colrat 2013
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 96, pl. 17.
Mitterand 2016
Mitterand, Henri. Paul Cézanne, Émile Zola, Lettres croisées, 1858–1887. Paris: Gallimard, 2016, fig. 11.
Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 186, ill.
Smith 2020
Smith, Paul. "Vermilion, or why Cézanne took the shine off things." Word & Image 36, nio. 1 (2020), p. 73, fig. 10.
Dombrowski, Ireson and Patry 2021
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 190, fig. 4, as Madame Cézanne Sewing.

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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Madame Cezanne cousant, c.1877 (FWN 442)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=319 (accessed on April 19, 2024).