The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
Catalogue entry
FWN 514
Femme à la cafetière
c.1895
Alternate titles: Femme à la cafetière; Frau mit Kaffeekanne; Frauenbildnis; La Domestique; La Femme à la cafetière; Portrait de femme; Vrouw met koffiepot; Woman with a Coffeepot
Rewald: (781) c.1895; Venturi revised: 1893–94; Venturi: (574) 1890–94; Rivière: 1887; Cooper: 1890–92; Reff: early 1890s (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
51 3/16 x 38 3/16 in. (130 x 97 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 86, pl. V, as La Femme à la cafetière, lent by M/M Pellerin; exhibited for the first time.
Royal Academy, London, Masters of 19th Century French Painting, October 1–31, 1936, no. 92.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 44, ill. lent by Pellerin.
Orangerie, Paris, Vingt ans d'acquisitions au musée du Louvre 1947-1967, December, 1967–March, 1968, no. 406, ill., as La Femme à la cafetière.
Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne dans les musées nationaux, July 19–October 14, 1974, no. 42.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 168, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Musée Granet and Musée des Beaux-Arts, palais Longchamp, Aix-en Provence and Marseille, France, Le Grand Atelier du Midi: de Cézanne à Matisse [Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence]; de Van Gogh à Bonnard [Musée des Beaux-Arts, palais Longchamp, Marseille], June 13–October 13, 2013, no. 117, ill., p. 184 (dated 1900), shown in Aix.
Kimbell Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from the Musée d'Orsay, October 19, 2014–January 25, 2015, no. 52, ill., pp. 190–193 (dated 1890–95), as Woman with a Coffeepot.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 48, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 17.2, 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
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 215, listed ("Figure peinte à Aix").
Fry, Roger. "Le développement de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 7, no. 12 (December 1926), ill. p. 413 as La Domestique.
Faure, Élie. P. Cézanne. Paris: G. Crès, 1926, pl. 16 as La Femme à la cafetière.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 115 as Frauenbildnis.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, p. 66, fig. 33, pl. XXIV.
Fry, Roger. "Cézannes Udvikling." Samleren 6 (July, August, September 1929), p. 131, ill.
Besson, George. La Peinture française au XIXe siècle, vol. III. Paris: Braun & Cie, 1934, fig. 26 as Portrait de femme, c. 1900.
L'Art sacré: revue mensuelle. Special number, Cézanne. Paris, May 1936, fig. 23 p. 29 as La Femme à la cafetière.
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. LXXII.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 574, ill. vol. II as Femme à la cafetière.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 71.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, fig. 46.
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Cogniat, Raymond. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1939, pl. 79.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 67 as Femme à la cafetière, 1890-94.
Ragghianti, Carlo Ludovico. L'Impressionismo. Turin: Chiantore, 1947, pl. L.
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 118, listed p. 165.
Jedlicka, Gotthard. Cézanne. Berne: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1948, fig. 40 as Femme à la cafetière.
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Sterling, Charles, and Hélène Adhémar. La Peinture au Musée du Louvre, vol. I. Paris: Éditions des Musées Nationaux, 1958, fig. 267.
Read, Herbert. A Concise History of Modern Painting. New York: Praeger, 1959, p. 10, ill.
Uchida, Sono. Cézanne. Tokyo: Misuzu-Shobo, 1960, p. 90, ill.
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Guerry, Liliane. Cézanne et l'expression de l'espace. Paris: Albin-Michel, 1966, pl. 38.
Martini, Alberto, and Renata Negri. Cézanne e il post-impressionismo. Milan: Fabbri, 1967, pl. VI.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 116.
Ikegami, Chuji. Cézanne. Tokyo: Shueisha, 1969, pl. 40.
Erpel, Fritz. Paul Cézanne. Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1973, no. 12.
Brion, Marcel. Cézanne. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974, p. 50.
Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 77.
Wadley, Nicholas. Cézanne and His Art. London: Hamlyn, 1975, pl. 47.
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. 16, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 117, ill.
Ponente, Nello. Paul Cézanne. Bologna: Capitol, 1980, pl. 18.
Ponente, Nello, ed. Cézanne e le avanguardie. Rome: Officina Edizioni, 1981, Covre: pl. 14.
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 9, ill. in color.
Muller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 34.
Arrouye, Jean. La Provence de Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Edisud, 1982, p. 76, ill.
Thomson, Belinda. The Post-Impressionists. London: Phaidon Press, 1983, pl. 67.
Lucie-Smith, Edward. Chefs-d'oeuvre impressionnistes du Musée du Jeu de Paume. London: Thames & Hudson, 1984, p. 33, ill.
Wetzel, Christoph. Paul Cézanne: Leben u. Werk. Stuttgart/Zurich: Belser, 1984, p. 58, ill. in color.
Laclotte, Michel, Genviève Lacambre, Anne Distel, et al. La Peinture au Musée d'Orsay. Paris: Editions Scala, 1986, p. 92, ill.
Erpel, Fritz. Paul Cézanne. Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1988, no. 18.
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 179, ill.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 219, ill. in color.
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 126, ill. in color.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 165, ill.
Wadley, Nicholas. Cézanne and His Art. London: Hamlyn, 1989, p. 57, ill. in b/w.
Kendall, Richard. The History and Techniques of the Great Master Cézanne. London: Tiger Books International, 1989, p. 51, ill.
Arrouye, Jean. Cézanne: Paris, Provence. Paris: Textuel, 1995, p. 116, ill.
Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne en Provence. Paris: Editions Assouline, 1995.
Patin, Sylvie. Cézanne. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 19.
Sollers, Philippe. Le Paradis de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, 1995, p. 130, ill.
Cahn, Isabelle. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 1995, p. 95, 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. 781, ill. vol. 2 and p. 41, ill. col. vol. 1 as Femme à la cafetière.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 272, pl. 169.
Tosini, Aurora Scotti. "Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)." In Cézanne, Renoir. Milan: Skira, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 52, ill.
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Buschhoff, Anne. "Paula Modersoh-Becker und Paris. Fünf Vorbemerkungen; Lanschaften; Figurenbilder; Stillleben." In Paula Modersohn-Becker und die Kunst in Paris um 1900 - Von Cézanne bis Picasso. Munich: Hirmer, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 105-106, fig. 1 as Frau mit Kaffeekanne, 1890-95.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 269; vol. 2, p. 176 as La Femme à la cafetière.
Elderfield, John. "Picasso's Extreme Cézanne." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 212, fig. 8.7 as Woman with a Coffeepot.
Green, Christopher. "Cézanne and Léger: Realizing Sensations." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 185, ill, p. 212, fig. 8.7 as Woman with a Coffeepot.
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, p. 140, fig. 38 as Femme à la cafetière, c. 1890–95.
Patin, Sylvie. "Cézanne!... vous pensez bien que j'ai regardé ses tableaux..." In Picasso, Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 97, fig. 1 as Femme à la cafetière.
Patin, Sylvie. "Cézanne! ... naturlijk heb ik zijn schilderijen bekeken...' [Picasso]." In Cézanne, Picasso, Mondriaan: in nieuw perspectief. Zwolle: Waanders, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 1 as Vrouw met koffiepot, c. 1895.
Novotny, Fritz. Paul Cézanne: Gesammelte Schriften zu seinem Werk und Materialien aus dem Nachlaß. Introduction by Gabriel Ramin Schor (editor), Agnes Blaha (assistance). Vienna: Klever, 2011, fig. 46.
Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne abstraction faite. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2011, p. 251, fig. 181.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 95, pl. 16.
Smith, Paul. "Cézanne's 'Primitive' Perspective, or the 'View from Everywhere.'" Art Bulletin 95, no. 1 (March 2013), fig. 12.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 94.
France-Lanord, Hadrien. La couleur et la parole: les chemins de Paul Cézanne et de Martin Heidegger. Paris: Gallimard, 2018, ill. p. 61 (detail) as Femme à la cafetière.
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. 212 p. 222.