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FWN 514

Femme à la cafetière

c.1895

Alternate titles: Donna con caffettiera; Femme à la cafetière; Femme assise; Frau mit Kaffeekanne; Frauenbildnis; La Domestique; La Femme à la cafetière; Portrait de femme; Vrouw met koffiepot; Woman with a Coffeepot; Žena s konvici kávy

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)

Vollard A stockbook: no. 4186, femme à la cafetiere, 130 x 92 cm

Vollard archives: photo no. 42, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1893

Musée d'Orsay, Paris (RF 1956 13)

Keywords

People
Other:
- unidentified sitter »
Still-life objects
Dishes and Vessels:
- coffee pot / cafetière »
- cup / tasse »
Still-life objects
Miscellaneous:
- spoon / cuillère »
Interiors
Wall decoration:
- paneling / lambris »
Interiors
Furnishings:
- oilcloth / toile cirée »
- screen / paravent »

Catalogue Entry
Additional Materials
Sketchbook

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris, and Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (1904)

Auguste Pellerin, Paris (July 7, 1904);

Jean-Victor Pellerin, Paris;

Musée du Louvre, Paris (1956, Gift of M. and Mme J.V. Pellerin);

Musée du Louvre, galerie du Jeu de Paume, Paris (1956-1986);

Musée d'Orsay, Paris (1986)

Exhibition History

1936c Paris

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.

1956 Aix-en-Provence

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.

1967–1968a Paris

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.

1974b Paris

Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne dans les musées nationaux, July 19–October 14, 1974, extended until October 28, no. 42, ill. in color, as La femme à la cafetière, c. 1890-1895.

1995–96 Paris and traveling

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.

2013 Aix-en-Provence and Marseille

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.

2014–15 Fort Worth

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.

2015–16 Rome

Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Impressionisti dal Musée d'Orsay: 'Tête à tête', October 15, 2015–February 7, 2016, no. 66, ill., as Donna con caffettiera, 1890-1895.

2017 Paris

Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 48, ill.

2017–18 Paris and traveling

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.

2022–23 Abu Dhabi

Louvre Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Impressionnisme: la modernité, October 12, 2022–February 5, 2023, no. 140, ill., as Femme à la cafetière, 1890-95.

2025 Aix-en-Provence

Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cezanne au Jas de Bouffan, June 28–October 12, 2025, no. 84, ill., as La Femme à la cafetière.

Published References

Rivière 1923

Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 215, listed ("Figure peinte à Aix").

Faure 1923a

Faure, Élie. P. Cézanne. Paris, 1923, pl. 16, as La Femme à la cafetière.

Fry 1926

Fry, Roger. "Le développement de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 7, no. 12 (December 1926), ill. p. 413, as La Domestique.

Pfister 1927

Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 115, as Frauenbildnis.

Fry 1927a

Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, p. 66, fig. 33, pl. XXIV.

Fry 1929

Fry, Roger. "Cézannes Udvikling." Samleren 6 (July, August, September 1929), p. 131, ill.

Besson 1934

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 1936

L'Art sacré: revue mensuelle. Special number, Cézanne. Paris, May 1936, fig. 23 p. 29, as La Femme à la cafetière.

Lord 1936

Lord, Douglas. "Paul Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 69, no. 400 (July 1936), p. 35, ill. p. [33], as La Femme à la cafetière.

Raynal 1936

Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. LXXII p. 104.

Venturi 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 574, ill. vol. II, as Femme à la cafetière.

Novotny 1937

Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 71.

Slavíček 1937

Slavíček, Jan. "Zprávy a úvahy: Paul Cézanne." Volné směry (Prague) vol. 33, issue 1 (1937), ill. p. 122, as Žena s konvici kávy, 1890-94.

Novotny 1938

Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, fig. 46.

Barnes and de Mazia 1939

Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 140, p. 250, ill. (analysis pp. 382–83).

Raynal 1939

Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. London: A. Zwemmer, 1939, ill.

Cogniat 1939a

Cogniat, Raymond. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1939, pl. 79.

Novotny 1947

Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 67, as Femme à la cafetière, 1890-94.

Ragghianti 1947

Ragghianti, Carlo Ludovico. L'Impressionismo. Turin: Chiantore, 1947, pl. L.

Dorival 1948

Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 118, listed p. 165.

Jedlicka 1948

Jedlicka, Gotthard. Cézanne. Berne: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1948, fig. 40, as Femme à la cafetière.

Guerry 1950

Guerry, Liliane. Cézanne et l'expression de l'espace. Paris: Flammarion, 1950, pl. 38.

Venturi 1950a

Venturi, Lionello. Impressionists and Symbolists: Manet, Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Scribner, 1950, fig. 135.

Fry 1952

Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 66, pl. XXIV fig. 33, as Femme à la cafetière.

Raynal 1954

Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1954, p. 90, ill.

Beucken 1955

Beucken, Jean de. Un portrait de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, [1955], p. 230.

Adhémar 1958

Adhémar, Hélène. Catalogue des peintures, pastels, sculptures impressionnistes du Musée du Louvre. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1958, p. 27, no. 50.

Bazin 1958

Bazin, Germain. Trésors de l'impressionnisme au Louvre. Paris: A. Somogy, 1958, pp. 228-229, ill. c. 1890.

Sterling and Adhémar 1958

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 1960

Uchida, Sono. Cézanne. Tokyo: Misuzu-Shobo, 1960, p. 90, ill.

Novotny 1961

Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 1961, pl. 34.

Feist 1963

Feist, Peter Heinz. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1963, pp. 33, 38, 54, pl. 42.

Guerry 1966

Guerry, Liliane. Cézanne et l'expression de l'espace. Paris: Albin-Michel, 1966, pl. 38.

Martini and Negri 1967

Martini, Alberto, and Renata Negri. Cézanne e il post-impressionismo. Milan: Fabbri, 1967, pl. VI.

Murphy 1968

Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 116.

Ikegami 1969

Ikegami, Chuji. Cézanne. Tokyo: Shueisha, 1969, pl. 40.

Brion 1971

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

Adhémar et al. 1973

Adhémar, Hélène, and Anne Dayez. Musée du Jeu de Paume. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1973, listed p. 141, ill. p. 23, as Femme à la cafetière, c. 1890-94.

Erpel 1973

Erpel, Fritz. Paul Cézanne. Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1973, no. 12.

Elgar 1975

Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 77.

Wadley 1975

Wadley, Nicholas. Cézanne and His Art. London: Hamlyn, 1975, pl. 47.

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. 16, ill.

Venturi 1978

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 117, ill.

Ponente 1980

Ponente, Nello. Paul Cézanne. Bologna: Capitol, 1980, pl. 18.

Ponente 1981

Ponente, Nello, ed. Cézanne e le avanguardie. Rome: Officina Edizioni, 1981, Covre: pl. 14.

Harris 1982

Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 9, ill. in color.

Müller 1982

Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 34.

Arrouye 1982a

Arrouye, Jean. La Provence de Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Edisud, 1982, p. 76, ill.

Thomson 1983

Thomson, Belinda. The Post-Impressionists. London: Phaidon Press, 1983, pl. 67.

Lucie-Smith 1984

Lucie-Smith, Edward. Chefs-d’œuvre impressionnistes du Musée du Jeu de Paume. London: Thames & Hudson, 1984, p. 33, ill.

Wetzel 1984

Wetzel, Christoph. Paul Cézanne: Leben u. Werk. Stuttgart/Zurich: Belser, 1984, p. 58, ill. in color.

Compin et al. 1986

Compin, Isabelle et Anne Roquebert. Catalogue sommaire illustré des peintures du musée du Louvre et du musée d'Orsay. 3, École Française, A-K. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1986, p. 115, ill., as La femme à la cafetière, c. 1890-95.

Laclotte, Lacambre, Distel et al. 1986

Laclotte, Michel, Genviève Lacambre, Anne Distel, et al. La Peinture au Musée d'Orsay. Paris: Editions Scala, 1986, p. 92, ill.

Erpel 1988

Erpel, Fritz. Paul Cézanne. Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1988, no. 18.

Kendall 1988

Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 179, ill.

Lévêque 1988

Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 219, ill. in color.

Plazy 1988

Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 126, ill. in color.

Düchting 1989

Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 165, ill.

Wadley 1989

Wadley, Nicholas. Cézanne and His Art. London: Hamlyn, 1989, p. 57, ill. in b/w.

Kendall 1989a

Kendall, Richard. The History and Techniques of the Great Master Cézanne. London: Tiger Books International, 1989, p. 51, ill.

Arrouye 1995

Arrouye, Jean. Cézanne: Paris, Provence. Paris: Textuel, 1995, p. 116, ill.

Coutagne 1995

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

Patin 1995

Patin, Sylvie. Cézanne. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 19.

Sollers 1995

Sollers, Philippe. Le Paradis de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, 1995, p. 130, ill.

Cahn 1995b

Cahn, Isabelle. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 1995, p. 95, ill.

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. 781, ill. vol. 2 and p. 41, ill. col. vol. 1, as Femme à la cafetière.

Lewis 2000

Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 272, fig. 169.

Tosini 2005

Tosini, Aurora Scotti. "Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)." In Cézanne, Renoir. Milan: Skira, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 52, ill.

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. 235, ill.

Buschhoff 2007

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 2008

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 2009

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 2009

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 2009

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 2009a

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 2009b

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 2011

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 2011d

Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne abstraction faite. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2011, p. 251, fig. 181.

Colrat 2013

Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 95, pl. 16.

Smith 2013

Smith, Paul. "Cézanne's 'Primitive' Perspective, or the 'View from Everywhere.'" The Art Bulletin 95, no. 1 (March 2013), fig. 12.

Armstrong 2018

Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 94.

France-Lanord 2018

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.

Brettell 2019

Brettell, Richard R. On Modern Beauty: Three Paintings by Manet, Gauguin and Cézanne. Los Angeles: Getty Publicatons, 2019, fig. 45, dated c.1890–95.

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. 212 p. 222.

Dauberville 2020

Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 187, ill., as Femme assise.

Smith 2021

Smith, Paul. "Cezanne's Non-Constructive Line." In Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 6.

Nagaï 2022a

Nagaï, Takanori. Truth in Panting: The Meaning of Cezanne's Practices for Modernizing Society. Tokyo: Sangesha Publishers Inc., 2022, pl. 19.

Record last updated February 22, 2025. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Femme à la cafetière, c.1895 (FWN 514)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=758 (accessed on July 11, 2025).

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