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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 475
Portrait de madame Cezanne
1885–86
Alternate titles: Madame Cézanne; Portrait de Madame Cézanne; Portrait of Madame Cézanne; Ritratto della signora Cézanne
Rewald (580): c.1885; Venturi revised: 1883–86; Venturi (520); Other: van Buren: 1886–88
Oil on canvas
18 1/8 x 15 in. (46 x 38 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 4, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1886
Private Collection, on loan to Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Museum Berggruen
Provenance
Stephan Bourgeois Gallery, New York
William Van Horne, Montreal;
Van Horne Collection, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Jan. 24, 1946, no. 12, ill.
Mr. and Mrs. George Garde da Sylva, Los Angeles
Max Moos, Geneva
Heinz Berggruen, Paris and Berlin (1962);
Berggruen Family
Exhibition History
1913 New York
Armory of the Sixty-Ninth Regiment, New York, International Exhibition of Modern Art [Armory Show], February 17–March 15, 1913, no. 1072, as Portrait of Madame Cézanne, lent by van Horne. Traveled to: Art Institute, Chicago, March 24–April 15, 1913; Copley Hall, Boston, April 28–May 18, 1913.1913 Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Armory Show, March 24–April 16, 1913, no. 51.1933 Montreal
Art Association, Montreal, The Sir William Van Horne Collection, October 16–November 5, 1933, no. 146a.1956 Zurich
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Paul Cézanne, August 22–October 7, 1956, no. 54, pl. 24, lent by Max Moos.1988 Geneva
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Collection Berggruen, June 16–October 30, 1988, no. 4, ill.1991a London
National Gallery, London, Van Gogh to Picasso: The Berggruen Collection at the National Gallery, January–April 21, 1991, no. 17, ill., as Portrait of Madame Cézanne, c. 1885.2000 Vienna and traveling
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 16, ill., p. 161, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne, lent by Bettina Berggruen. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).2000–01 Berlin
Nationalgalerie Berlin, Berlin, Cézanne in Berlin. 28 Werke aus den Staatlichen Museen und aus Privatbesitz, October 6, 2000–January 14, 2001, no. 11, ill.2002 Rome
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni, March 7–July 7, 2002, listed p. 148, ill., and detail ill. on cover, as Ritratto della signora Cézanne, lent by Madame Berggruen (on deposit at Staatliche Museen in Berlin).2014–15b New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Madame Cézanne, November 19, 2014–March 15, 2015, n.n., pl. 14, as Portrait of Madame Cézanne, lent by Private collection, on loan to Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Museum Berggruen.2017–18 Paris and traveling
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 11.1, ill. shown in Washington only. 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
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 520, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.Miller 1946
Miller, Arthur. "Da Sylva Collection Enriches Los Angeles." Art Digest 21, no. 2 (October 15, 1946), p. 13.Taillandier 1961
Taillander, Yvon. P. Cézanne. Milan: Antonio Vallardi, 1961, p. 63.Van Buren 1966
Buren, Anne H. van. "Madame Cézanne's Fashions and the Dates of Her Portraits." Art Quarterly 29, no. 2 (1966), fig. 8.Taillandier 1979
Taillandier, Yvon. Cézanne. Paris: Flammarion, 1979, p. 63, ill.Plazy 1981
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne. Fribourg: Editions Medea, 1981, p. 37.Rewald 1986b
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 156, ill.Du 1989
"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), p. 39, ill.Rewald 1989
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 173, 198, 199, fig. 100.Kendall 1991
Kendall, Richard. Van Gogh to Picasso: The Berggruen Collection at the National Gallery. London: The National Gallery, 1991, no. 17, ill.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. 580, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.Berggruen 2001a
Berggruen, Heinz. "Wie ich mein erstes Cézanne-Gemälde kaufte." In Cézanne in Berlin. Berlin: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 2001. Exhibition catalogue, p. 7 (with a photograph of the portrait hanging in the drawing room of Beggruen's apartment, Geneva).Schmidt 2004a
Schmidt, Bertram. Cézannes Lehre. Kiel: Ludwig, 2004, fig. 74.Feilchenfeldt 2005b
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Sammler. Von Zola bis Annenberg." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel,
Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 197, ill.Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 249; vol. 2, p. 166, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.Sidlauskas 2009
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, pl. 6, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.Staatliche Museen zu Berlin–Preussischer Kulturbesitz 2013
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin–Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Picasso und seine Zeit: Die Sammlung Berggruen. Berlin: Nicolai, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 26-27, ill.Lloyd 2015
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 119, fig. 72.Prakash 2015
Prakash, A.K. "The Canadian Scene: Montreal Dealers and Collectors." In Impressionism in Canada: A Journey of Rediscovery, Prakash, A.K, editor Rosemary Shipton. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche, 2015, p. 201, pl. 5.28 p. 214, as Madame Cézanne, 1885.Schubert 2015
Schubert, Karsten. "Madame Cézanne: New York." The Burlington Magazine 157, no. 1345 (April 2015), ill. p. 297, as Portrait of Madame Cézanne, c. 1885.Elderfield, Morton, Rey 2017
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 130, fig. 41.Armstrong 2018
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 85, c. 1885.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. 7, as Portrait of Madame Cézanne.Record last updated February 9, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de madame Cezanne, 1885–86 (FWN 475)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=567 (accessed on April 20, 2024).
