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 455
Madame Cezanne au jardin
1879–80 (possibly later)
Alternate titles: Madame Cézanne assise; Madame Cézanne au jardin; Madame Cézanne in the Garden; Portrait de Mme Cézanne
Rewald (462): 1879–80 (possibly later); Venturi revised: c.1880; Venturi (370): 1879–82
Oil on canvas
34 5/8 x 26 in. (88 x 66 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 111, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Jas de Bouffan, 1885–90
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Collection Paul Guillaume: exposition au profit de la Société des Amis du Luxembourg, May 25–June 1929, p. 49, ill., as Madame Cézanne assise.
Galerie Pigalle, Paris, Exposition Cèzanne, 1839–1906, January 4–February 7, 1930, no. 11, as Madame Cézanne assise, lent by P. Guillaume.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, May 18–29, 1931.
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 26, lent by Mme Guillaume.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 24, lent by Mme Guillaume.
Orangerie, Paris, Collection Jean Walter – Paul Guillaume, January 1966, no. 6, ill.
Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne dans les musées nationaux, July 19–October 14, 1974, extended until October 28, no. 27, ill. in b/w, as Madame Cézanne au jardin.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Georgie, Tbilisi, Georgia, Impressionnistes et post-impressionnistes des musées français: de Manet à Matisse, 1981, no. 5, ill., as Madame Cézanne au jardin. Traveled to: Musée de l’Ermitage, Leningrad, Russian Federation, 1981.
Musée Saint-Georges, Liège, Belgium, Cézanne, March 12–May 9, 1982, no. 8, ill. c. 1879-82. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 12–August 31, 1982 (exhibition catalogue; preface by Denis Coutagne).
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne, June 12–August 31, 1982, no. 8, ill.
Musée des Beaux-Arts Bunkamura, Tokyo, Chefs d’œuvre du Musée de l'Orangerie : collection Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume, November 14, 1998–February 14, 1999, no. 4, ill., as Madame Cézanne au jardin. Traveled to: Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan, February 23–April 7, 1999; Musée départemental d'arts, Hiroshima, Japan, April 17–June 27, 1999; Musée départemental d'art moderne, Niigata, Japan, July 10–September 12, 1999; Musée national d'art moderne, Kyoto, Japan, September 21–November 14, 1999; Musée d'art moderne, Taipei, Taiwan, November 4, 1999–March 1, 2000; Museum of fine arts, Kaoshiung, Taiwan, 2000.
Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, From Renoir to Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée de l'Orangerie, June 1–October 15, 2000, no. 25, ill., as Madame Cézanne au jardin, c. 1880. Traveled to: Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, November 12, 2000–February 25, 2001; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, March 29–May 20, 2001; Art Gallery New Soth Wales, Sydney, June 1–July 29, 2001; National Gallery of Victoria on Russell, Melbourne, Australia, August 10–September 30, 2001; Fundación La Caixa - CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain, April 11–June 30, 2002.
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Zola, October 18, 2002–January 19, 2003, no. 127, ill., as Madame Cézanne au jardin, 1880.
Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France, Cézanne: quartoze chefs-œuvres du musée de l'Orangerie, December 16, 2003–April 15, 2004, no. 1, ill., as Madame Cézanne au jardin.
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Italy, Cézanne, Renoir: 30 capolavori dal Musée de l'Orangerie. I 'classici' dell'Impressionismo dalla collezione Paul Guillaume, March 22–July 3, 2005, no number, pp. 90–91, ill., as Madame Cézanne au jardin.
Musée André Diligent, la Piscine, Roubaix, France, Conversation anglaise: le groupe de Bloomsbury, November 21, 2009–February 28, 2010, no. 9, ill., as Madame Cézanne au jardin.
Museo Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City, Obras Maestras del Musée de l’Orangerie, October 19, 2013–January 19, 2014, no. 1, ill., as Madame Cézanne au jardin.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Madame Cézanne, November 19, 2014–March 15, 2015, n.n., pl. 10, as Madame Cézanne in the Garden, lent by Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 21, ill. shown in Paris only.
Palazzo Reale, Milan, Cézanne/Renoir, Capolovori dal Musée de l'Orangerie, March 19–June 30, 2024, no. 17, ill. Traveled to: Fondation Gianadda, Martigny, France, July 13–November 19, 2024 (Titled: Cézanne - Renoir, Regards croisés); Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, January 17–May 7, 2025; Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo, May 29–September 7, 2025; Seoul Art Center, Seoul, South Korea, September 20, 2025–January 25, 2026.
Published References
Les Arts à Paris, no. 16 (January 1929), ill. p. [28], as Madame Cézanne assise.
Waldemar-George. La grande peinture contemporaine à la collection Paul Guillaume. Paris: Éditions des Arts à Paris, 1929, ill. p. 49, as Madame Cézanne assise.
Waldemar-George. "La grande peinture contemporaine à la collection Paul Guillaume." La Renaissance (Paris; New York), vol. 12, no. 4 (April 1929), p. 174, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 370, ill. vol. II, as Madame Cézanne au jardin.
Waldemar-George. "La Femme. Mesure de l'art français." Art et les Artistes 35, no. 184 (February 1938), p. 173, ill.
Musée de l'Orangerie. Collection Jean Walter - Paul Guillaume. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1966, no. 6, ill., as Madame Cézanne au jardin.
Buren, Anne H. van. "Madame Cézanne's Fashions and the Dates of Her Portraits." Art Quarterly 29, no. 2 (1966), p. 122, fig. 17.
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 15.
Hoog, Michel. Musée de l’Orangerie: catalogue de la collection Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1986, p. 28, no. 8, ill., as Madame Cézanne au jardin.
Hoog, Michel. Catalogue of the Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume Collection. Translated by Barbara Shuey. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1987, pp. 28–29, no. 8, ill., as Madame Cézanne in the Garden.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 101, ill. in color.
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. 462, ill. vol. 2, as Madame Cézanne au jardin.
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, p. 206, fig. 61, as Madame Cézanne au jardin, dated 1880.
Record last updated June 21, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Madame Cezanne au jardin, 1879–80 (possibly later) (FWN 455)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=453 (accessed on September 8, 2024).
