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)
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© The Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania, USA/ The Bridgeman Art Library
FWN 533
Portrait de femme
c.1899
Alternate titles: Femme assise tenant un livre; La Vieille Femme au livee; Portrait of a Woman; Woman in a red-stripped dress
Rewald (853): c.1898; Venturi revised: c.1896; Venturi (575): 1892–96; Rivière: 1888
Oil on canvas
36 3/4 x 28 7/8 in. (93.3 x 73.3 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)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Figures de Cézanne, June 27–July 23, 1910, no. 17, as Femme assise tenant un livre, tentative identification.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation, May 2–August 15, 1993, no number, pp. 138–39, ill. 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, Texas, 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
Rivière 1923 probably
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 216, listed, as La Vieille Femme au livee.Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne: His Life and Art. Translated by Harold L. van Doren. New York: Nicholas Brown, 1923, ill. opp. p. 148.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Henri-Matisse. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1933, pp. 181, 456.
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.
De Mazia, Violette. "Transferred Values: Part III." Vistas 1, no. 2 (Autumn-Winter), pl. 2.
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.
Bailey, Colin B. "The Origins of the Barnes Collection, 1912-15." The Burlington Magazine 150, 1265 (August 2008), p. 537, fig. 23, as Woman in a red-stripped dress, c. 1898.
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.
Dolkart, Judith F. "To see as the Artist Sees, Albert C. Barnes and the Experiment in Education." In The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2012, p. 12, fig. 5.
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.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, no. 57, pp. 285–88, as Portrait of a Woman (catalogue notes by C. Kang).
Shutova, Anya, and Barbara Buckley. "Materials and Techniques: A Study of Cézanne's Paintings in the Barnes Foundation." In Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, figs. 10a and 10b (detail) showing the graphite underdrawing.
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Record last updated August 6, 2024. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de femme, c.1899 (FWN 533)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=828 (accessed on July 5, 2025).
