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)
FWN 515
La Vieille au chapelet
1895–96
Alternate titles: Alte Frau; Alte Frau mit Rosenkranz; An Old Woman with a Rosary; Dame au chapelet; Femme au chapelet; Frau mit dem Rosenkranz; Frau mit Rosenkranz; La femme au chapelet; Le vieille femme au chapelet; Mme Cézanne au chapelet; Old Woman with a Rosary; Old woman with rosary; The Old Woman wit a Rosary; The Woman with the Rosary; Woman with a Rosary; Woman with the Beads
Rewald (808): 1895–96; Venturi revised: 1895–96; Venturi (702): 1900–1904; Rivière: 1896; Vollard: 1896; Cooper: 1898–1900; Gowing: 1897–98 (Edinburgh); Machotka et al: c.1896; Other: Novotny: 1898–99
Oil on canvas
31 3/4 x 25 13/16 in. (80.6 x 65.5 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Rétrospective d'oeuvres de Cézanne, October 1–22, 1907, no. 47, as Femme au chapelet.
Grafton Galleries, London, Manet and the Post-Impressionists, November 8, 1910–January 15, 1911, no. 13, as Dame au chapelet, lent by Galeries Druet.
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. 5, as Alte Frau mit Rosenkranz, lent by Druet, for sale.
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Portraits du XIXe siècle, October 1–November 8, 1912, no. 49, as Femme au chapelet, lent by E. Druet.
Armory of the Sixty-Ninth Regiment, New York, International Exhibition of Modern Art [Armory Show], February 17–March 15, 1913, no. 214, as Femme au chapelet, lent by Druet. Traveled to: Art Institute, Chicago, March 24–April 15, 1913; Copley Hall, Boston, April 28–May 18, 1913.
Copley Society of Boston, Copley Hall, Boston, Armory Show, April 28–May 19, 1913, no. 14.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Französische Kunst des XIX. und XX. Jahrhunderts, October 5–November 14, 1917, no. 21, as Femme au chapelet, lent by J. D[oucet].
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, December 1–18, 1920, no. 1, ill., as La femme au chapelet, lent by Jacques Doucet.
Kunstverein Winterthur, Kunst Museum, Winterthur, Switzerland, Ausstellung von Meisterwerken aus Privatsammlungen, August 20–September 24, 1922, no. 3, as Alte Frau.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Exposition rétrospective d'art français, July 3–October 3, 1926, no. 3, ill., as La femme au chapelet, 1896, (with inverted measurements), lent by Jacques Doucet.
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, L'Impressionnisme, June 15–September 29, 1935, no. 6, ill., as Mme Cézanne au chapelet, lent by Mme Doucet.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 105, pl. IX, as La Vieille au chapelet, lent by Mme Doucet.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Art in Our Time: 10th Anniversary Exhibition, May 10–September 10, 1939, no. 63, ill.
New York World's Fair, New York, Masterpieces of Art, May–October 1940, no. 339, ill., as Femme au chapelet, lent by Mme Jacques Doucet, Paris.
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Paintings by Paul Cézanne, February 5–March 9, 1947, no. 11, ill. lent by Doucet.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 4–August 4, 1953, no. 23, ill. p. [34], lent by Private collection, Paris. Traveled to: Musée Masséna, Nice, France, August 8–September 12, 1953; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble, France, September 15–October 18, 1953.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 57, pl. XIII, as La Vieille au chapelet, c.1897–98, lent by the National Gallery, London. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
Musée Saint-Georges, Liège, Belgium, Cézanne, March 12–May 9, 1982, no. 22, ill. 1895-96. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 12–August 31, 1982 (exhibition catalogue; preface by Denis Coutagne).
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne, June 12–August 31, 1982, no. 22, ill.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 171, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
National Gallery, London, Cézanne in Britain, October 4, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 34, ill., as An Old Woman with a Rosary, c. 1895–96.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 128, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 50, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 18.1, 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
Denis, Maurice. "Cézanne I' and 'Cézanne II." Translated by Roger Fry. The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 16, no. 82 and no. 83 (January and Fabruary 1910), ill. p. [277] (no. 83), as La femme au chapelet.
Hind, C. Lewis. The Post Impressionists. London: Methuen, 1911, p. 5, ill. opposite p. 40, as Woman with the Beads, Druet collection.
Biermann, Georg. "Die klassische Malerei Frankreichs im 19. Jahrhundert: zur Ausstellung im Frankfurter Kunstverein." Der Cicerone 4, no. 17 (September 4, 1912), p. 675, fig. 4, as Alte Frau mit Rosenkranz.
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, as Frau mit dem Rosenkranz.
Lübbecke, Fried. "Kunstausstellung: Frankfurt a. M." Kunst und Künstler 10, no. 12 (1912), p. 619, as Alte Frau mit Rosenkranz.
Borgmeyer, Charles Louis. The Master Impressionists. Chicago: The Fine Arts Press, 1913, p. 139, ill., as Woman with the Beads, Collection Druet.
Dreyfus, Albert. "Paul Cézanne." Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst 24, no. 9 (June 1913), p. 205, ill.
Gregg, Frederick James. "The Attitude of the Americans." Arts and Decoration (March 1913), p. 167, ill.
Laurvik, J. Nilsen. Is It Art? Post-Impressionism, Futurism, Cubism. New York: The International Press, 1913, fig. 1.
Stuart, Evelyn Marie. "Cézanne and His Place in Impressionism." Fine Arts Journal 35, no. 5 (May 1917), p. 337, ill., as Woman with the Beads, "Collection E. Druet".
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 201.
Coquiot, Gustave. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Ollendorf, 1919, ill. p. 224 (opposite), as Le vieille femme au chapelet.
"Le courrier de la presse: Paul Cézanne." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 1, no. 26 (December 15, 1920), ill. p. 747, as Femme au chapelet.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, p. 67, pl. p. 66, as La Vieille au chapelet, collection Doucet.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 243.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 221, listed.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, p. 111, pl. [19] hors texte, as La Vieille au chapelet.
M.V. "De fransche tentoonstelling in het Rijksmuseum." Algemeen Handelsblad (Amsterdam), July 30, 1926, p. 9.
Vauxcelles, Louis. "A propos de Cézanne [Hommage à Paul Cézanne]." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 37 (July 1, 1926), p. 485, as Femme au chapelet.
Anonymous. "De Franschen in Amsterdam: II. Van Nattier tot Cézanne." De Maasbode (Rotterdam), August 8, 1926, p. 1 (derde blad), as La femme au chapelet.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 120, as Frau mit Rosenkranz, 1896.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. CII.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne: 24 phototypies. Paris: Librairie de France, [1928], [pl. 12], as La femme au chapelet.
Cogniat, Raymond. "Figures de collectionneurs, Jacques Doucet." Formes: revue internationale des arts plastiques, no. 2 (February 1930), ill. between pp. 10 and 11, as La femme au chapelet.
Jamot, Paul. "French Painting - II." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 60, no. 346 (January 1932), fig. A, pl. XLVI p. (57], as The Woman with the Rosary.
Olmenhove, van den. "Kunst: Paul Cézanne." Verf en kunst: maandblad van P. A. Regnault's verf-, inkt- en blikfabrieken (Surabaya) 4, no.10, no.11, no.12 (1935), ill. p. 6 (no.12), as La femme au chapelet, 1896.
L'Art sacré: revue mensuelle. Special number, Cézanne. Paris, May 1936, fig. 26 p. 27, as La Vieille au chapelet.
Larguier, Léo. Paul Cézanne ou le drame de la peinture. Paris: Denoël et Steele, 1936, p. 35, ill.
Tourrette, Gilles de la. "Paul Cézanne." Art et les Artistes 32 (July 1936), p. 338, ill., as La Vieille au chapelet, dated circa 1898.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 702, ill. vol. II, as La Vieille au chapelet.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 178, listed.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 77, as La Vieille au chapelet, 1898-99.
Jedlicka, Gotthard. Cézanne. Berne: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1948, fig. 51, as La Vieille au chapelet.
Nicolson, Bendict. "Post-Impressionism and Roger Fry." The Burlington Magazine 93, no. 574 (January 1951), p. 13, note 16.
"A Cézanne Portrait for the National Gallery." Museums Journal (December 1953), p. 223.
Sutton, Denys. "National Gallery Buys Cezanne: 'Old Woman With a Rosary.'" The Daily Telegraph (London), October 28, 1953, p. 1, ill., as Old Woman with a Rosary.
"National Gallery and Tate Gallery Bill." The Burlington Magazine 96, no. 610 (January 1954), p. 5, fig. 1 p. [2] (detail), as The Old Woman wit a Rosary.
Rewald, John. Cézanne, Geffroy et Gasquet, suivi de Souvenirs sur Cézanne de Louis Aurenche et de lettres inédites. Paris: Quatre Chemins-Editart, 1959, fig. 10.
Levey, Michael. A Concise History of Paintings: From Giotto to Cézanne. London: Praeger, 1962, fig. 546.
Brown, Milton. The Story of the Armory Show. New York: J.H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1963, p. 107.
Lord, James. A Giacometti Portrait. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1965, p. 7, mentioned.
Leonhard, Kurt. Paul Cézanne in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Rheinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1966, p. 53, ill.
Martini, Alberto, and Renata Negri. Cézanne e il post-impressionismo. Milan: Fabbri, 1967, pl. VII.
Rostrup, Haavard. "Studier i fransk portraetmaleri Cézanne." Meddelelser fra Ny Carlesberg Glyptotek 26 (1969), p. 13, ill.
Davies, Martin. National Gallery Catalogues. French School: Early 19th Century, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists etc. Revised by Cecil Gould. London: National Gallery, 1970, pp. 19–21, ill.
Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 7.
Monneret, Sophie. L'Impressionnisme et son époque: dictionnaire international illustré. Paris: Denoël, 1978, vol. 4, ill. p. 125.
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 71, ill. in color.
Ely, Bruno. "Cézanne, L'Ecole de dessin et le Musée d'Aix." In Cézanne au Musée d'Aix. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1984. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 194.
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 115, ill. in color.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 167, ill.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, p. 40, mentioned.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 133, 136–37, 170, 172, 192, 200–02, 212, 215, fig. 102, pl. X, and cover detail.
Gasquet, Joachim. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne. Translated by C. Pemberton. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991, p. 133, ill.
Wattenmaker, Richard et al. Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, p. 138, fig. 1.
Baker, Christopher, and Tom Henry. The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue. London: National Gallery Publications, 1995, p. 109, ill., as An Old Woman with a Rosary, probably 1896.
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. 808, ill. vol. 2, as La Vieille au chapelet.
Linde, Ulf. "Mont Sainte-Victoire." In Cézanne i blickpunkten. Stockholm: Centraltryckeriet, 1997. Exhibition catalogue, p. 20, ill. in b/w.
Mori, Gioia. "'La letteratura si esprime con astrazioni mentre il pittore concretizza.' Gli scrittori di Cézanne: Zola, Balzac e Flaubert." In Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni. Milan: Mazzotta, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 87.
Tuma, Kathryn A. "Cézanne and Lucretius at the Red Rock." Representations vol. 78, no. 1 (Spring 2002), p. 78, fig. 5.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 222, fig. 5.28, as La Vieille au chapelet.
Kitschen, Friederike. "Der 'deutsche' Cézanne in der Kunstrezeption der Wilhelminischen Epoche." In Distanz und Aneignung. Relations artistiques entre la France et l'Allemagne. Kunstbeziehungen zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich 1870–1945, Edited by Alexandre Kostka and Françoise Lucbert. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2004, p. 326, ill.
Conisbee, Philip. "Cézanne's Provence." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 4, fig. 2, as La Vieille au chapelet.
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. 83, fig. 4 (detail).
Verdi, Richard. "Cézanne in Britain, London." The Burlington Magazine 149, no. 1246 (January 2007), p. 53 mentioned, as Woman with a Rosary.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 357; vol. 2, p. 231, as La Vieille au chapelet.
Reissner, Elisabeth. "Ways of Making: Practice and Innovation in Cézanne's Paintings in the National Gallery." National Gallery Technical Bulletin vol. 29 (2008), p. 7, pl. 8.
Robins, Anna Gruetzner. "'Manet and the Post-Impressionists': a checklist of the exhibition." The Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1293 (December 2010), p. 785, fig. 9.
Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne abstraction faite. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2011, pp. 197, 247, figs. 137, 176.
Cézanne, Paul. The Letters of Paul Cézanne. Edited and translated by Alex Danchev. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson; Getty Publications, 2013, p. 321, ill.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 94, pl. 15.
Verdi, Richard. "Rembrandt and Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 157, no. 1350 (September 2015), fig. 16, as Old woman with rosary, c. 1895-96.
Brettell, Richard R. On Modern Beauty: Three Paintings by Manet, Gauguin and Cézanne. Los Angeles: Getty Publicatons, 2019, fig. 57.
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. 213 p. 225.
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. 286, fig. 1, as An Old Woman with a Rosary.
Record last updated May 4, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Vieille au chapelet, 1895–96 (FWN 515)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=784 (accessed on December 9, 2024).
