The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
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© The Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania, USA/ The Bridgeman Art Library
FWN 533
Portrait de femme
c.1898
Alternate title: Femme assise tenant un livre
Rewald: (853) c.1898; Venturi revised: c.1896; Venturi: (575) 1892–96
Oil on canvas
36 11/16 x 28 11/16 in. (93.2 x 73 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3483, huile; portrait de bourgeoise dans une robe d'intérieur tartan rouge, assise tenant dans deux mains un livre, 92 x 73 cm (250 frs)
Vollard C stockbook: no. 7028, Femme en rouge assise un livre à la main
Vollard archives: photo no. 52, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1894
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Figures de Cézanne, June 27–July 23, 1910 (exhibition catalogue; a portrait drawing of Achille Emperaire (Chappuis No. 229) appeared on the cover of the catalogue). The exhibition was extended into September. Two lithographs with the title "Baigneurs" were also shown, no. 17, as Femme assise tenant un livre, tentative identification.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia, Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation, May 2–August 15, 1993 (exhibition catalogue; catalogue notes for the Cézannes by Joseph Rishel), no number, ill., p. 138. Traveled to: Musèe d'Orsay, Paris, November 6, 1993–January 2, 1994. National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, January 21–April 3, 1994. Kimbell Art Museum, Forth Worth, Tex, April 24–August 16, 1994. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, September 17–December 31, 1994. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, January 29–April 1995. Haus der Kunst, Munich, June 23–October 22, 1995.
Published References
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne: His Life and Art. Translated by Harold L. van Doren. New York: Nicholas Brown, 1923, ill. opp. p. 148.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 575, ill. vol. II as Portrait de femme.
Barnes, Albert C, and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 151, p. 258, ill. (analysis pp. 383–85).
Sweeney, James Johnson. "The Albert C. Barnes Collection." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 3, no. 2 (Autumn 1972), p. 33, pl. 13.
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. 853, ill. vol. 2 as Portrait de femme.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 273, pl. 170.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 363; vol. 2, p. 235 as Portrait de femme.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 188, fig. 57.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. London and Princeton, N,J.: National Portrait Gallery Publications and Princeton University Press, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 64.
Record last updated November 17, 2014. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. "Portrait de femme, c.1898 (FWN 533)." The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. http://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=828 (accessed on April 21, 2019).