Catalogue entry

FWN 491

Madame Cezanne en robe rouge

1888–90

Alternate titles: Bildnis seiner Frau in Rot; Femme en rouge (Madame Cezanne); Frau mit rotem Kleid; La femme en rouge; La signora Cézanne in abito rosso; Madame Cézanne; Madame Cézanne en rouge; Madame Cézanne in a Red Dress; Mme Cézanne in Rot; Mme Cézanne in rotem Kleid; Portrait; Portrait de madame Cézanne en rouge; Portrait de Mme Cézanne; Portrait de Mme Cézanne en rouge; Portrait of Madame Cézanne; Porträt Frau Cézanne; Porträt Madame Cézanne; Portret van Mme Cézanne in het rood

Rewald (652): 1888–90; Venturi revised: c.1890; Venturi (573): 1890–94

Oil on canvas

35 x 27 5/8 in. (89 x 70 cm)

Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP.00088)

Keywords

People
Family:
- Madame Cezanne / Hortense Fiquet »

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris

Paul Cassirer, Berlin (private collection)

Lucie Ceconi [Lucie Cassirer-Oberwart], Berlin

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (March 22, 1912)

Paul Cassirer, Berlin (March 25, 1912)

Alfred Flechtheim, Düsseldorf (July 8, 1912)

Galerie E. Bignou, Paris

Paul Guillaume, Paris

Mrs. William A. Clark, Washington, D.C.

[Knoedler Galleries, New York (Jan. 7, 1949)]

Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (Apr. 1949)

Exhibition History

1912 Cologne

Städtische Ausstellungshalle, Cologne, Internationale Kunstausstellung des Sonderbundes Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, May 25–September 30, 1912, no. 145, as Frau mit rotem Kleid, lent by Flechtheim.

1913 Düsseldorf

Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Düsseldorf, Germany, Eröffnungskatalog, 1913, no number, ill., p. 57, as Bildnis seiner Frau in Rot.

1921 Berlin

Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Cézanne-Ausstellung: Cézannes Werke in deutschem Privatbesitz: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, November–December 11, 1921, no. 22, ill., as Porträt Frau Cézanne, lent by P. Cassirer private collection.

1925b Berlin

Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Impressionisten, September–October 1925, no. 10, as Porträt Madame Cézanne.

1926–27 Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, The Arts Club Exhibitions: Some Modern Paintings, December 21, 1926–January 24, 1927, no. 3, as Portrait, Lent by Henry Reinhardt & Company.

1927a New York

Reinhardt Galleries, New York, El Greco and Rembrandt to Cézanne and Matisse, January 15–February 5, 1927, no. 22, ill., as Portrait de Mme Cézanne, lent by Madame S. Paret.

1927 Glasgow

McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, United Kingdom, A Century of French Painting, May 1927, no. 34, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne.

1927 Paris

Galerie Barbazanges - Hodebert successeur, Paris, Tableaux des maîtres du XIXe et XXe siècle, December 9–31, 1927, no. 34, as La femme en rouge.

1928 Amsterdam

E.J. van Wisselingh & Co, Amsterdam, Cent Ans de peinture française, April 16–May 5, 1928, no. 2, ill., as Portrait de madame Cézanne en rouge, c. 1890.

1928f New York

Knoedler Galleries, New York, A Century of French Painting, November 12–December 8, 1928, no. 27, as Portrait de madame Cézanne en rouge, lent from the Paul Cassirer collection.

1934 San Francisco

California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, French Painting from the XVth Century to the Present, June 8–July 8, 1934, no. 67.

1936c Paris

Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 84, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne en rouge, lent by Mrs. W.A. Clark.

1947b New York

Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 50, lent by Clark.

1953–54 Paris and traveling

Orangerie, Paris, Chefs-d'oeuvre du Musée d'Art de São Paulo, October 10, 1953–January 1954, no. 5, ill. Traveled to: Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, January 14–February 28, 1954; Utrecht Centraal Museum, March 6–May 2, 1954; Berner Kunstmusuem, Bern, Switzerland, May 8–June 7, 1954; Tate Gallery, London, June 19–August 15, 1954; Palazzo reale, Milan, November 1954–February 1955.

1954b London

Tate Gallery, London, Masterpieces from the São Paulo Museum of Art, June 19–August 15, 1954, no. 47, pl. XXXII.

1957c New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from the São Paulo Museum of Art, March 21–June 2, 1957, no number, ill., on cover.

1964–65 Munich

Haus der Kunst, Munich, Französische Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts, von David bis Cézanne, October 7, 1964–January 6, 1965, no. 26, ill. not shown.

1986 Tokyo and traveling

Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, September 18–October 7, 1986, no. 31, ill. Traveled to: Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan, October 10–November 9, 1986; Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, November 15–December 4, 1986.

1987–88 Verona and traveling

Palazzo Forti, Verona, Italy, Da Manet a Toulouse-Lautrec, July 4–September 27, 1987, no number, ill., pp. 126–30. Traveled to: Serrone della Villa Reale, Monza, Italy, October 7–December 6, 1987; Villa Croce, Genova, Italy, December 17, 1987–February 21, 1988.

1993 Tübingen

Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 43, ill.

2000 Vienna and traveling

Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 20, ill., as Portrait de madame Cézanne en rouge. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).

2002–03 Treviso

Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso, Italy, L'impressionismo e l'età di Van Gogh, October 9, 2002–March 30, 2003, no. 96, ill., as La signora Cézanne in abito rosso, lent by Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand.

2014–15b New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Madame Cézanne, November 19, 2014–March 15, 2015, n.n., pl. 21, as Madame Cézanne in a Red Dress, lent by Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand.

2015 Sao Paulo

Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo Assis Chateaubriand - MASP, Sao Paulo, Arte da França: de Delacroix a Cézanne, July 17–November 8, 2015.

2017 Paris

Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 41, ill.

2017–18 Paris and traveling

Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 14.3, 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.

2021–22 Budapest

Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary, Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction, October 28, 2021–February 13, 2022, no. 3, ill.

Published References

Gleizes and Metzinger 1912

Gleizes, Albert, and Jean Metzinger. Du "Cubisme". Paris: E. Figuière, 1912, pp. 8–10, pl. I.

Waldmann 1922

Waldmann, Emil. "Paul Cézanne: zur Ausstellung im Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer." Kunst und Künstler 20, no. 4 (1922), p. 135, as Mme Cézanne in Rot.

Charensol 1928

Charensol, Georges. "Les expositions." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 73 (January 1, 1928), p. 34, as La femme en rouge.

Les Arts à Paris 1928

Les Arts à Paris, no. 15 (May 1928), ill. p. 12, as Madame Cézanne en rouge.

Niehaus 1928

Niehaus, Kasper. "Fransche schilderkunst, Cézanne, de redder." De Telegraaf (Amsterdam), April 25, 1928, ill. p. 9, as Portret van Mme Cézanne in het rood.

Venturi 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 573, 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. 139, ill.

Zervos 1938

Zervos, Christian. Histoire de l'art contemporain. Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'art, 1938, p. 37, ill.

Barnes and de Mazia 1939

Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 134, p. 251, ill. (analysis pp. 381–82).

Valsecchi 1953

Valsecchi, Marco. "Capolavori del Museo di San Paolo." L'Illustrazione Italiana 80, no. 12 (December 1953), p. 64, ill.

Art et Style 1954

Bardi, P.M. and Hélène Adhémar. Art et Style. 30, L'art français au Musée d'art de Sao-Paulo. Paris, 1st trimester 1954, ill. in b/w (n.p.), as Portrait de madame Cézanne en rouge, c. 1890.

Bardi 1954

Bardi, Pietro Maria. "Paintings at São Paulo Museu de Arte." Connoisseur 133 (March 1954), p. 16, ill.

Bardi 1956

Bardi, Pietro Maria. The Arts in Brazil. Milan: Edizioni del Milione, 1956, no. 372, ill.

Taillandier 1961

Taillander, Yvon. P. Cézanne. Milan: Antonio Vallardi, 1961, p. 76.

Andersen 1970

Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, p. 38, fig. 34.

Brion 1971

Brion, Marcel. Cézanne. Milan: Fratelli Fabbri, 1971, ill. p. 50.

Schapiro 1973

Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 51, ill.

Elgar 1975

Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 92.

Cooper 1976

Cooper, Douglas. Alex Reid & Lefevre 1926–1976. London: The Lefevre Gallery, 1976, listed p. 90, ill. p. 91, as Portrait of Madame Cézanne, 1890-94, The Sao Paulo Museum.

Plazy 1981

Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne. Fribourg: Editions Medea, 1981, p. 29.

Harris 1982

Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 65, ill. in color.

Pickvance and Takumi 1986

Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 67, pl. 31.

Thomas 1987

Thomas, Denis. The Age of the Impressionists. Middlesex, U.K.: Holiday House, 1987, p. 157, ill.

Wattenmaker et al 1993

Wattenmaker, Richard et al. Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, p. 224, fig. 2.

Coutagne 1995

Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne en Provence. Paris: Editions Assouline, 1995.

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. 652, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de madame Cézanne en rouge.

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. 195, ill.

Sidlauskas 2009

Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, pl. 15, as Portrait de madame Cézanne en rouge.

Schaefer 2012

Schaefer, Barbara, ed. "Sonderbundausstellung 1912 - Rekonstruktion." 1912, Mission Moderne: die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes. Cologne: Wienend, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, no. 145, p. 556.

Dascher 2013

Dascher, Ottfried. "Es ist was Wahnsinniges mit der Kunst" : Alfred Flechtheim - Sammler, Kunsthändler, Verleger. vol. 6, Quellenstudien zur Kunst: eine Schriftenreihe der International Music and Art Foundation, Walter Feilchenfeldt, ed. [Wädenswil]: Nimbus, 2013, listed p. 420, ill. p. 65, as Portrait de madame Cézanne en rouge.

Roux-Dessarps 2015

Roux-Dessarps. "A propos de la galerie Barbazanges d'après le fond d'archives conservé au musée d'Orsay." Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français (Paris), année 2014 (2015), mentioned and ill. p. 14, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne en rouge.

Dauberville 2020

Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 183, ill., as Femme en rouge (Madame Cezanne).

Related work

Record last updated August 14, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Madame Cezanne en robe rouge, 1888–90 (FWN 491)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=633 (accessed on April 25, 2024).