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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
Detroit Institute of Arts (Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill)

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Prince de Wagram (Alexandre Berthier), Paris (Mar. 21, 1906)
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York (Jan. 2, 1907)
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Dr. Albert C. Barnes, Merion (Dec. 9, 1912);
Barnes Foundation, Merion
Knoedler Galleries, New York (May 1934)
Robert H. Tannahill, Grosse Pointe Farms;
Detroit Institute of Arts (1970)
Exhibition History
1904b Paris
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Salle Cézanne, October 15–November 15, 1904, no. 3, as Portrait de Mme C... lent by Vollard.
1909b Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XII. Jahrgang, III. Ausstellung, November 17–December 12, 1909, no. 10, as Portrait: Madame Cézanne, lent by Vollard; tentative identification.
1912 Frankfurt am Main
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.
1935a New York
Bignou Gallery, New York, A Nineteenth Century Selection: French Paintings, March 1935, no. 2, ill.
1970 Detroit
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, A Collector's Treasure: The Tannahill Bequest, May 13–August 13, 1970.
1976 Paris
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.
1993 Tübingen
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 39, ill.
1999–2000 Riehen/Basel
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.
2000 Vienna and traveling
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).
2007a Madrid
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.
2009 Philadelphia
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.
2014–15b New York
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.
2017 Paris
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 39, ill. shown in London and Washington only.
2017–18 Paris and traveling
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 1912
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 1912
Lübbecke, Fried. "Kunstausstellung: Frankfurt a. M." Kunst und Künstler 10, no. 12 (1912), p. 619.
Pène du Bois 1914
Pène du Bois, Guy. "A Modern American Collection." Arts and Decoration 4, no. 8 (June 1914), p. 305, ill.
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 45.
Barnes 1915
Barnes, Albert C. "How to Judge a Painting." Arts and Decoration 5, no. 6 (April 1915), p. 219, ill.
Mullen 1923
Mullen, Mary. An Approach to Art. Merion, PA: The Barnes Foundation Press, 1923, p. 37.
Watson 1923
Watson, Forbes. "The Barnes Foundation, Part I." The Arts 3, no. 1 (January 1923), p. 12, ill.
Barnes 1925c
Barnes, Albert C. "Cézanne." Journal of the Barnes Foundation 1, no. 3 (October 1925), p. 14, ill.
Zervos 1927
Zervos, Christian. "Idéalisme et naturalisme dans la peinture moderne, II: Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh." Cahiers d'Art, no. 10 (1927), p. 336, ill.
Iavorskaia 1935b
Iavorskaia, Nina. Paul Cézanne. Milan: Hoepli, 1935, pl. XXV.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 528, ill. vol. II, as Madame Cézanne.
Goldwater 1938
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 1938
Zervos, Christian. Histoire de l'art contemporain. Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'art, 1938, p. 30, ill.
Barnes and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 113, listed.
Cummings 1970
Cummings, Frederick. "Tannahill Taste." Art News 69, no. 3 (May 1970), p. 32, ill.
Reff 1977c
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.
Shiff 1978
Shiff, Richard. "Seeing Cézanne." Critical Inquiry 4, no. 4 (Summer 1978), fig. 7.
Reff 1979b
Reff, Theodore. "The Pictures within Cézanne's Pictures." Arts Magazine 53, no. 10 (June 1979), fig. 27.
Shiff 1984
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.
Kendall 1988
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 93, ill.
Rewald 1989
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 263.
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. 607, ill. vol. 2 and p. 40, ill. col. vol. 1, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.
Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 236, fig. 146.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer 2003
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 2005e
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 2007
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 2008
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 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. 130, ill., p. 176, pl. 36, as Madame Cézanne, dated circa 1888.
Lanchner 2009
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 2009
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 2009
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 and Wright 2010
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 and Feilchenfeldt 2013d
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.
Société Paul Cezanne 2019
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, 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. 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 20, 2024).