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 481
Portrait de madame Cezanne
1885–86
Alternate titles: Head of a Woman; Madame Cézanne; Portrait de Madame Cézanne; Study: Madame Cézanne; Tête de femme
Rewald (582): c.1888; Venturi revised: 1883–86; Venturi (525): 1885–87; Rivière: 1880
Oil on canvas
21 7/8 x 18 in. (55.6 x 45.7 cm)
Vollard C stockbook: no. 7147, esquisse. tête de femme, 55 x 46 cm
Provenance
Exhibition History
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, French Paintings, February 21–March 15, 1933, no. 2, as Tête de femme.
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November 10–December 10, 1934, no. 34, (dated c. 1890–91), as Head of a Woman, lent by Harriman Gallery.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Opening Exhibition (Modern French Painting), 1935, no. 1, (dated 1890–91), lent by Marie Harriman Gallery.
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Cézanne, Derain and Others, February 17–March 14, 1936, no. 5, as Study: Madame Cézanne.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 22, ill. lent by Harriman Gallery.
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Cézanne: Centennial Exhibition, November 7–December 2, 1939, no. 12, (dated 1885–87), as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.
Randolph-Macon Women's College, Lynchburg, Virginia, Modern French Paintings, 1940, no. 1.
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio, Modern Paintings, 1940.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Techniques of Painting, August 4–October 15, 1941.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 38, lent by Horowitz.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Cézanne and Structure in Modern Painting, June–August 1963.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 18, ill., as Portrait de Madame Cézanne. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, Cézanne & Giacometti: Paths of Doubt, February 20–June 29, 2008, no. 25, ill. p. 273, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne, 1885-87, lent by Guggenheim Museum.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Madame Cézanne, November 19, 2014–March 15, 2015, n.n., pl. 23, as Madame Cézanne, lent by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 221, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 525, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.
"Museum Acquires the Portrait of Madame Cézanne." Cincinnati Art Museum News n, no. 7 (November 1947).
Barnett, Vivian Endicott. The Guggenheim Museum: Justin K. Thannhauser Collection. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1978, no. 5, p. 32, ill.
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. 582, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, p. 76, fig. 28, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne, dated c. 1885–87.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 132, fig. 42.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. London and Princeton, N,J.: National Portrait Gallery Publications and Princeton University Press, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 44.
Fontanella, Megan et al. Thannhauser Collection: French Modernism at the Guggenheim. New York: Guggenheim Museum Publication, 2018, pp. 62-65, no. 6, ill. and fig. 6.4 (photomacrograph of lip area), as Madame Cézanne.
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. "Portrait de madame Cezanne, 1885–86 (FWN 481)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=569 (accessed on December 13, 2024).
