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)
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© 1995 The Detroit Institute of Arts
FWN 487
Portrait de madame Cezanne
1886–87
Alternate titles: Madame Cézanne; Portrait de Madame Cézanne; Portrait de Mme C...; Portrait of Madame Cézanne; Portrait: Madame Cézanne; Porträt der Gattin Cézannes
Rewald (607): c.1888; Venturi revised: 1886–88; Venturi (528): 1885–87
Oil on canvas
39 5/8 x 32 in. (100.6 x 81.3 cm)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 3809, Portrait de Madame Cezanne, 100 x 81 cm (300 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 66, Annotated: 1885
Provenance
Exhibition History
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Salle Cézanne, October 15–November 15, 1904, no. 3, as Portrait de Mme C... lent by Vollard.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XII. Jahrgang, III. Ausstellung, November 17–December 12, 1909, no. 10, as Portrait: Madame Cézanne, lent by Vollard; tentative identification.
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany, Die klassische Malerei Frankreichs im 19. Jahrhundert: ein Überblick über die Entwicklung der modernen französischen Malerei in ausgewählten Werken der führenden Meister, July 18–September 30, 1912, no. 8, as Porträt der Gattin Cézannes, lent by Vollard, for sale.
Bignou Gallery, New York, A Nineteenth Century Selection: French Paintings, March 1935, no. 2, ill.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, A Collector's Treasure: The Tannahill Bequest, May 13–August 13, 1970.
Musée Marmottan, Paris, Chefs-d'œuvre de musées des Etats-Unis: de Giorgione à Picasso, October 13–December 5, 1976, no. 27, ill., as Portrait de Madame Cézanne, 1892.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 39, ill.
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne und die Moderne, October 10, 1999–January 9, 2000, no. 15, ill., p. 74, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 21, 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).
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, El espejo y la máscara: el retrato en el siglo de Picasso, February 6–May 20, 2007, no. 40, ill., as Madame Cézanne, c. 1888. Traveled to: Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, June 17–September 16, 2007.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, pl. 36, 135, p. 176, 398 (dated c. 1886), as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Madame Cézanne, November 19, 2014–March 15, 2015, n.n., pl. 17, lent by Detroit Institute of Arts.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 39, ill. shown in London and Washington only.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 13.3, ill. shown in London and 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
Gebhardt, Karl. "Die Ausstellung klassischer französischer Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts im Frankfurter Kunstverein." Die Kunst für Alle 28, no. 3 (November 1, 1912), p. 70.
Lübbecke, Fried. "Kunstausstellung: Frankfurt a. M." Kunst und Künstler 10, no. 12 (1912), p. 619.
Pène du Bois, Guy. "A Modern American Collection." Arts and Decoration 4, no. 8 (June 1914), p. 305, ill.
Barnes, Albert C. "How to Judge a Painting." Arts and Decoration 5, no. 6 (April 1915), p. 219, ill.
Watson, Forbes. "The Barnes Foundation, Part I." The Arts 3, no. 1 (January 1923), p. 12, ill.
Barnes, Albert C. "Cézanne." Journal of the Barnes Foundation 1, no. 3 (October 1925), p. 14, ill.
Zervos, Christian. "Idéalisme et naturalisme dans la peinture moderne, II: Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh." Cahiers d'Art, no. 10 (1927), p. 336, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 528, ill. vol. II, as Madame Cézanne.
Goldwater, Robert J. "Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections." Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 138, ill.
Zervos, Christian. Histoire de l'art contemporain. Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'art, 1938, p. 30, ill.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 113, listed.
Reff, Theodore. "Painting and Theory in the Final Decade." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 19, ill.
Reff, Theodore. "The Pictures within Cézanne's Pictures." Arts Magazine 53, no. 10 (June 1979), fig. 27.
Shiff, Richard. Cézanne and the end of Impressionism: a study of the theory, technique, and a critical evaluation of modern art. Chicago; London: The Univesity of Chicago Press, 1984, pp. 191, 212, fig. 41, 51, as Portrait of Madame Cézanne, c. 1890.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 263.
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. 607, ill. vol. 2 and p. 40, ill. col. vol. 1, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, pp. 14, 47, fig. 1.35, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Gemälde: Formate und Themen, Echtheitsfragen." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 234, ill.
Schmidt, Bertram. "Picasso und Cézanne. Zur Entstehung der kubistischen Bildsprache." In Jahrbuch der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen in Baden-Württemberg 44, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Baden-Württemberg. Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2007, p. 108, fig. 20 (detail).
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 251; vol. 2, p. 168, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.
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. 130, ill., p. 176, pl. 36, as Madame Cézanne, dated circa 1888.
Lanchner, Carolyn. "Cézanne and Giacometti: An Odd Couple." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 398, pl. 135, as Madame Cézanne, dated c. 1886.
Rishel, Joseph J. "Cézanne and Hartley: On Sacred Ground." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 176, pl. 36, as Madame Cézanne, dated circa 1886.
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, pl. 3, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne, dated c. 1886–88.
Ireson, Nancy and Wright Barnaby. "Cézanne's Card Player. An Introduction." In Cézanne's Card Players. London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2010. Exhibition catalogue, p. 144, fig. 60.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Kollektion Paul Cézanne: 17. November bis 12. Dezember 1909." Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1908-1910. vol. 4, "Ganz eigenartige neue Werte". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2013, p. 294, ill.
Cezanne, Jas de Bouffan: art et histoire. Under the scientific direction of Denis Coutagne and François Chédeville. Lyon; Aix-en-Provence: Fage édition; Société Paul Cezanne, 2019, fig. 209 p. 219.
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. 186, fig. 1, as Madame Cézanne.
Notes
A portion of this canvas, unstretched at the time, was painted into the background of [Le Fumeur, c.1891, possibly later (507)].
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, 1886–87 (FWN 487)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=590 (accessed on April 19, 2024).
