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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 488
Portrait de madame Cezanne
1886–87
Alternate titles: Madame Cézanne; Portrait; Portrait de madame Cézanne; Portrait of Madame Cézanne; Ritratto di Madame Cézanne
Rewald (581): 1888–90; Venturi revised: 1886–88; Venturi (530): 1885–87
Oil on canvas
18 5/16 x 15 3/16 in. (46.5 x 38.5 cm)
Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Paul Rosenberg, Paris
Henri Matisse, Nice;
Pierre Matisse, New York (1954)
Musée d'Orsay, Paris (1991)
Exhibition History
1924a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition Paul Cézanne (au profit de la caisse du monument Cézanne), March 3–24, 1924.1929 Cannes
Musée de Cannes, Cannes, France, La Provence et ses peintres au XIXe siècle, 1929, no. 7, lent by Matisse.1939a Paris
Paul Rosenberg, Paris, Exposition Cézanne (1839-1906), organisée à l'occasion de son centenaire au profit de l’œuvre de l'allaitement maternel, February 21–April 1, 1939, no. 17, ill., (dated 1887), as Portrait de madame Cézanne, 1887, lent by Matisse.1939b London
Rosenberg & Helft, London, Exhibition Cézanne (1839-1906) to celebrate his centenary, April 19–May 20, 1939, no. 11, ill., (dated 1887), lent by Matisse.1992b Paris
Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Dation Pierre Matisse, June 18–September 30, 1992, pp. 77-79, ill. 79, as Portrait de madame Cézanne, 1885-87.1995–96 Paris and traveling
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 126, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.1996–97 Paris
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, De l'impressionnisme à l'Art nouveau: acquisitions du musée d'Orsay 1990-1996, October 16, 1996–January 5, 1997, pp. 138-139, ill., as Portrait de madame Cézanne, 1885-1890.1999 Kobe and traveling
City Museum, Kobe, Japan, Rêve et réalité: collections du musée d'Orsay, June 19–August 29, 1999, no. 118, ill., as Portrait of Madame Cézanne, 1888-1890. Traveled to: National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, September 14–December 12, 1999.2001–02 Paris and traveling
Grand Palais, Paris, Paris - Barcelone: de Gaudí à Miró, October 9, 2001–January 14, 2002, p. 314, ill. 1885, shown in Barcelona only. Traveled to: Museu Picasso, Barcelona, Japan, February 28–May 26, 2002.2009–10 Canberra
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia, Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne & beyond, Post-impressionism from the Musée d'Orsay, December 4, 2009–April 5, 2010, no. 37, ill., as Portrait de madame Cézanne, 1885-90.2010b Tokyo
National Art Center, Tokyo, Post-impressionnisme: 115 chefs-d’œuvre de la collection du Musée d’Orsay, May 26–August 16, 2010, no. 33, ill., as Portrait de madame Cézanne, 1885-90.2010–11 San Francisco
de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay, September 2010–January 2011, no. 22, ill., as Portrait de madame Cézanne, 1885-90.2013 Madrid
Fundación Cultural MAPFRE, Madrid, Impresionistas y postimpresionistas: el nacimiento del arte moderno, February 2–May 5, 2013, no. 25, ill., as Portrait de madame Cézanne, 1885-90.2013 Ornans
Musée Gustave Courbet, Ornans, France, Courbet/Cézanne: La vérité en peinture, June 29–October 14, 2013, no. 23, ill., as Portrait of Madame Cézanne, 1885-1890.2014–15b New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Madame Cézanne, November 19, 2014–March 15, 2015, n.n., pl. 16 (dated c. 1885–88), as Portrait of Madame Cézanne, lent by Musée d'Orsay, Paris.2015–16 Rome
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Impressionisti dal Musée d'Orsay: 'Tête à tête', October 15, 2015–February 7, 2016, no. 64, ill., as Ritratto di Madame Cézanne, 1885-1890.2017 Paris
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 38, ill.2017–18 Paris and traveling
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 13.1, 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
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 46.Faure 1920
Faure, Elie. "Toujours Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 1, no. 8 (December 1920), ill. p. 270, as Portrait.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. 234, as Portrait.Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 1924
"Cézanne d'après ses historiens." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 5, no. 5 (March 1, 1924), ill. p. 114.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 530, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de madame Cézanne.Bagarry 1939
Bagarry, Adrien-Pierre. "Le centenaire de Cézanne." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 22, no. 1 (March 1939), p. 7, ill., as Portrait de madame Cézanne, 1887, Henri Matisse collection.Konstrevy 1939
"Pariskrönika: Cézanne-utställningar." Konstrevy (Stockholm) XV, no. 3 (1939), ill. p. 115, as Madame Cézanne.Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 110, listed p. 163.Van Buren 1966
Buren, Anne H. van. "Madame Cézanne's Fashions and the Dates of Her Portraits." Art Quarterly 29, no. 2 (1966), p. 124, note 5.Patin 1992
Patin, Sylvie. "Deux 'figures' de Cézanne au musée d'Orsay." Revue du Louvre - la revue des musées de France, no. 1 (April 1992), pp. 16-17, ill. p. 18, as Portrait de madame Cézanne, 1885-87.Cahn 1995b
Cahn, Isabelle. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 1995, p. 78, 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. 581, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de madame Cézanne.Schmidt 2004a
Schmidt, Bertram. Cézannes Lehre. Kiel: Ludwig, 2004, fig. 73.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. 4.9, as Portrait of Madame Cézanne.Sidlauskas 2009
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, pl. 12, as Portrait de madame Cézanne, dated c. 1885–88.Benedetti 2013b
Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Gli artisti italiani e Cézanne." In Cézanne et gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 59, fig. 72, CHECK.Grammont 2017
Grammont, Claudine. "Les Cézanne de Matisse, 1865–1881." In Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 81, fig. 5.Shiff 2017a
Shiff, Richard. "Mimetic Cézanne." In Cézanne and the past : tradition and creativity [international symposium, Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, 28 January 2013]. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2017, fig. 5.Armstrong 2018
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 88.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. 194, fig. 9, as Portrait of Madame Cézanne.
Henri Matisse in Nice, 1932
Record last updated April 30, 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, 1886–87 (FWN 488)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=568 (accessed on April 23, 2024).
