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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)
Catalogue entry
FWN 476
Portrait de madame Cézanne
1885–86
Alternate titles: Mme Cézanne; Portrait de Madame Cézanne; Portrait of Madame Cézanne
Rewald (576): 1886–87; Venturi revised: 1883–86; Venturi (521): c.1885; Other: van Buren: 1886–88
Oil on canvas
18 1/8 x 15 in. (46 x 38 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3842, huile; buste de femme gris Mme Cezanne, 46 x 37 cm (75 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 236, Annotated: 1885
Provenance
(Ambroise Vollard, Paris?)
Henri Matisse, Nice
Paul Rosenberg, Paris
Alex Reid & Lefèvre, London (1927)
Knoedler Galleries, New York (Dec. 19, 1928)
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel S. White III, Ardmore, Pennsylvania;
Philadelphia Museum of Art (1967)
Exhibition History
1921b New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Paintings by the Great French Impressionists from the Collection of M. Paul Rosenberg of Paris, February 1921, no. 33, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne, tentative identification.1922d Paris
Paul Rosenberg, Paris, Œuvres de grands maitres du dix-neuvième siècle, May 3–June 3, 1922, no. 12, as Portrait de madame Cézanne, 1888, according to Janneau article lent by Rosenberg.1923 Manchester
Thomas Agnew & Sons, Manchester, United Kingdom, Masterpieces of 19th Century French Art, November (?) 1923, no. 13, as Portrait de madame Cézanne.1923 London
Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, Masterpieces of French Art, June 29 - end of July, no. 13, as Portrait de madame Cézanne.1927 London
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Manet's masterpiece "Le Vieux musicien" and other important paintings by Cézanne, ..., May 17–?, 1927, Portrait of his wife.1928d New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Paul Cézanne, January 1928, no. 23, as Portrait de madame Cézanne, lent by White.1928 Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Inaugural Exhibition, March 1928, lent by White.1934 Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November–December 1934, no. 44, as Portrait of Madame Cézanne, lent by SS White.1939h New York
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Cézanne: Centennial Exhibition, November 7–December 2, 1939, no. 7, (dated c.1885), as Portrait de madame Cézanne, lent by White.1942d New York
Paul Rosenberg, New York, A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Cézanne (1839-1906) for the Benefit of Fighting France, November 19–December 19, 1942, no. 13, ill. lent by S.S. White.1947b New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 37, ill. lent by White.1947 Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Masterpieces of Philadelphia Private Collections, May 20–September 15, 1947, no. 23.1952 Chicago and traveling
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 44, ill. lent by White. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.1983 Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne in Philadelphia Collections, July 19–August 21, 1983, no. 13, ill. lent by Philadelphia Museum.1993 Tübingen
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 40, ill.1998 St. Petersburg and traveling
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 21, ill. Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).2008 Humlebæk
Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, Cézanne & Giacometti: Paths of Doubt, February 20–June 29, 2008, no. 28, ill. p. 66, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne, lent by Philadelphia Museum.2008–09 Yokohama and traveling
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Homage to Cézanne: His Influence on the Development of Twentieth Century Painting, November 15, 2008–January 25, 2009, no. 8, ill., as Portrait de madame Cézanne. Traveled to: Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan, February 7–April 12, 2009.2009–10 Montclair and traveling
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, Cézanne and American Modernism, September 13, 2009–January 3, 2010, no. 6, ill., p. 148, as Portrait de madame Cézanne. Traveled to: The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, February 14–May 23, 2010; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, June 26–September 26, 2010.2014–15b New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Madame Cézanne, November 19, 2014–March 15, 2015, n.n., pl. 13, lent by Philadelphia Museum of Art.2016 London
National Gallery, London, Painters' Painting: From Freud to Van Dyck, June 23–September 4, 2016, no. 11, ill., P. 35.2017 Paris
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 32, ill.2017–18 Paris and traveling
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 11.2, 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
Faure 1920
Faure, Elie. "Toujours Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 1, no. 8 (December 1920), ill. p. 269, as Mme Cézanne.Fontainas and Vauxcelles 1922
Fontainas, André and Louis Vauxcelles. "Paul Cézanne." Histoire générale de l'art français de la Révolution à nos jours: la peinture, la gravure, le dessin. Paris: Librairie de France, 1922, ill. p. 231, as Mme Cézanne.Janneau 1922
Janneau, Guillaume. "Les grandes expositions: maîtres du siècle passé." La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe (Paris), vol. 5, no. 5 (May 1922), p. 342, ill. p. 338.Phillips 1923
Phillips, Sir Claude. "Agnew's Galleries: Masterpieces of French Art." The Daily Telegraph (London) (July 3, 1923), p. 12, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.Wencker 1929
Wencker, Tilly. "Château Noir." Kunst und Künstler 27, no. 6 (1929), ill. p. 228.Gasquet 1930b
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Berlin: B. Cassirer, 1930, ill. opp. p. 152.Neugass 1931a
Neugass, Fritz. "Paul Cézanne." Creative Art 9, no. 4 (October 1931), p. 276, ill.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 521, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de madame Cézanne.Rewald 1936e
Rewald, John. Cézanne et Zola. Paris: Editions A. Sedrowski, 1936, fig. 58.Laver 1937
Laver, James. French Painting and the Nineteenth Century. London: B.T. Batsford, 1937, pl. 117.Novotny 1937
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 57.Zervos 1938
Zervos, Christian. Histoire de l'art contemporain. Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'art, 1938, p. 29, ill.Rewald 1939c
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 60.Jewell 1944a
Jewell, Edward Alden. Paul Cézanne. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944, p. 40, ill.Schildt 1946
Schildt, Göran. Cézanne. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1946, fig. 36.Novotny 1947
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 46, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne, c. 1885.Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 109, listed p. 163.Rewald 1948b
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, fig. 67.Rewald 1950a
Rewald, John. Cézanne. London: Phoenix House, 1950, fig. 48.Raynal 1954
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1954, p. 72, ill.Leonhard 1966
Leonhard, Kurt. Paul Cézanne in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Rheinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1966, p. 120, ill.Van Buren 1966
Buren, Anne H. van. "Madame Cézanne's Fashions and the Dates of Her Portraits." Art Quarterly 29, no. 2 (1966), fig. 10.Gazette des beaux-arts 1968
"[Aquisitions des musées du monde entier]." La Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 1189 (February 1968), p. 83, no. 301, ill., as Portrait de Madame Cézanne, c. 1885.Lindsay 1969a
Lindsay, Jack. "Cézanne and Zola." Art and Artists 4, no. 6 (September 1969), p. 24, ill.Venturi 1978
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 105, ill.Butler 1984
Butler, Marigene. "An Investigation of the Materials and Technique Used by Paul Cézanne." American Institute for Conservation. 1984, ill.Bernard, B. 1986
Bernard, Bruce. The Impressionist Revolution. London: Orbis, 1986, p. 122, ill.Kendall 1988
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 168, ill.Lévêque 1988
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 99, ill. in color.Rewald 1989
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 200.Bonafoux 1995
Bonafoux, Pascal. Cézanne: portrait. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 34, ill.Cachin and Rishel 1995
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 293, fig. 112.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. 576, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de madame Cézanne.Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 236, fig. 145.Feilchenfeldt, C. 2000a
Feilchenfeldt, Christina. "Portraits." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 164, fig. 1, as Portrait de madame Cézanne.Pissarro 2005
Pissarro, Joachim. Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–85. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 48, fig. 37.Bois 2009
Bois, Yve-Alain. "Cézanne and Matisse: From Apprenticeship to Creative Misreading." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 116, fig. 4.8, as Portrait of Madame Cézanne.Sidlauskas 2009
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, pl. 7, as Portrait de madame Cézanne.Warman 2011
Warman, Jayne. "Cézanne peintre des peintres." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 171, fig. 89, as Portrait of Madame Cézanne.Armstrong 2018
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 86.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. 192, fig. 6, as Portrait of Madame Cézanne.Related
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de madame Cézanne, 1885–86 (FWN 476)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=563 (accessed on April 26, 2024).
