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 441
Portrait de madame Cezanne
c.1877
Alternate titles: Bildnis von Frau Cézanne; Etude; Figure de femme; Etude d'après nature; Portrait de Madame Cézanne; Portrait de Mme Cézanne; Portrait de Mme Cézanne dans un fauteuil rouge; Portrait of Madame Cézanne
Rewald (387): c.1877; Venturi revised: c.1872; Venturi (228): 1872–77; Rivière: 1877
Oil on canvas
10 3/16 x 12 3/16 in. (26 x 31 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3576, huile; portrait de Madame Cezanne vue de buste; assise sur un sofa rouge, 26 x 31 cm (75 frs)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4207, Tête de femme, 28 x 30 cm (30 frs)
Private collection
Provenance
Exhibition History
6, rue Le Peletier, Paris, Troisième exposition de peinture, opening April 4, 1877, no. 28, as Figure de femme; Etude d'après nature, tentative identification.
Kurhaus, Baden-Baden, Germany, La peinture française moderne: de l'impressionnisme à nos jours - Moderne französische Malerei: vom Impressionismus bis zur Gegenwart, September 1946, no. 54, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne, 0.26 x 0.31cm. Traveled to: Stadtschloss, Berlin, October 22–November 6, 1946; Kunsthalle, Mainz, Germany, November 19–December 5, 1946; Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany, December 15, 1946–January 31, 1947.
Kunstgewerbemuseum [Museum für angewandte Kunst], Vienna, Classiques de la peinture française moderne - Meister der modernen französischen Kunst, 1947, no. 28, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne, tentative identification.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Moderne französische Malerei von den Impressionisten bis zur Gegenwart, March 1947, no. 28, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne, tentative identification.
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg, France, Les origines de l'art contemporain: la peinture française de Manet à Bonnard, November 1947–March 1948, no. 50, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne, 1872-1877, lent by Private collection. Traveled to: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, November 1947–March 1948; Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie, Besançon, November 1947–March 1948.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, La femme, 1800–1930, April–June 1948, no. 14, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 21, lent by Renand. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 4–August 4, 1953, no. 5, lent by G. Renand. Traveled to: Musée Masséna, Nice, France, August 8–September 12, 1953; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble, France, September 15–October 18, 1953.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 100 European Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block, May 4–June 11, 1967, no. 8, ill., as Portrait of Madame Cézanne, c. 1876. Traveled to: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, September 21–November 2, 1967.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, One Hundred European Paintings & Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block, February 2–April 14, 1968, no. 10, ill.
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland, Degas, Cézanne, Picasso: Meisterwerke aus Privatbesitz, January 28–March 17, 1996, listed p. 126, ill., as Portrait de Madame Cézanne. Traveled to: Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany, April 21–June 16, 1996; Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Dresden, Germany, July 8–September 15, 1996; Kunstforum Bank Austria, Wien, Austria, September 25–December 8, 1996; Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland, January 24–April 27, 1997.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 15, ill, lent by Swiss Private Collection. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Madame Cézanne, November 19, 2014–March 15, 2015, n.n., pl. 8, lent by Private collection.
Published References
Bernadille. "Chronique parisienne: L'Exposition des impressionnistes." Le Français, April 13, 1877, p. 2.
Shirakaba 3, no. 9 (September 1912), ill. p. 48, page illustrated in Schoneveld, 2019, p. 60, fig. 48.
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. L'Art moderne et quelques aspects de l'art d'autrefois: cent-soixante-treize planches d'après la collection privée de MM. J. & G. Bernheim-Jeune, poèmes de Henri de Régnier , 2 vols. Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1919, pl. 16.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 204, listed, p. 95, ill., as Portrait de Mme Cézanne dans un fauteuil rouge.
Zervos, Christian. "Idéalisme et naturalisme dans la peinture moderne, II: Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh." Cahiers d'Art, no. 10 (1927), p. 329, ill.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 43, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 228, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 43, ill.
Auzas, Pierre. Peintures de Cézanne. Paris: Editions du Chêne, 1946, pl. III (in color), as Portrait de Madame Cézanne, dated 1872–77.
Leuteritz, Gustav. "Französische Malerei in Berlin." Bildende Kunst: Zeitschrift für Malerei, Graphik, Plastik und Architektur (Berlin), no. 1 (1947), ill. p. 17, as Bildnis von Frau Cézanne.
Buren, Anne H. van. "Madame Cézanne's Fashions and the Dates of Her Portraits." Art Quarterly 29, no. 2 (1966), p. 124, note 5.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 247, fig. 1.
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. 387, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.
Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Gli artisti italiani e Cézanne." In Cézanne et gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 73, fig. 97.
Eiling, Alexander. "Cézanne's Metamorphoses." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 23.
Eiling, Alexander, Anett Göthe, Astrid Reuter, Bettina Kaufmann, Eva-Maria Höllerer, Juliane Betz and Julia Lachenmann. "Catalog." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 257 fig. 2, with erroneous Rewald no.
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. 191, fig. 5, as Portrait of Madame Cézanne.
Notes
Hortense Fiquet is wearing the same striped dress, with slight variation, in Madame Cezanne en robe rayée, 1883–85 (466) and possibly again in Madame Cezanne aux cheveux dénoués, 1885–86 (500).
This small painting was probably shown in the Third Impressionist Exhibition of 1877, no. 28. Although previously unidentified, the work was described in a review of the exhibition: "A rapprocher d'un portrrait féminin... le buste de la femme coupée en morceaux, – sans doute un objet d'art commandé par M. le greffier de la Morgue pour la décoration de son cabinet." (Bernardille)
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de madame Cezanne, c.1877 (FWN 441)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=383 (accessed on February 8, 2025).
