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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; Portrait of a Woman; Woman in a red-stripped dress
Rewald (853): c.1898; Venturi revised: c.1896; Venturi (575): 1892–96
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)
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
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (BF164)

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Baron Denys Cochin, Paris (Dec. 1, 1910)
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
[Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York]
Dr. Albert C. Barnes, Merion (June 24, 1921);
Barnes Foundation, Merion and Philadelphia
Exhibition History
1910d Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Figures de Cézanne, June 27–July 23, 1910, no. 17, as Femme assise tenant un livre, tentative identification.
1993–95 Washington, D.C. and traveling
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
Vollard 1923
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne: His Life and Art. Translated by Harold L. van Doren. New York: Nicholas Brown, 1923, ill. opp. p. 148.
Barnes and de Mazia 1933
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Henri-Matisse. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1933, pp. 181, 456.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 575, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de femme.
Barnes and de Mazia 1939
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 1972
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 1979–80
De Mazia, Violette. "Transferred Values: Part III." Vistas 1, no. 2 (Autumn-Winter), pl. 2.
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. 853, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de femme.
Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 273, fig. 170.
Bailey 2008
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 2008
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 2012
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, Morton, Rey 2017
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 188, fig. 57.
Elderfield, Morton, Rey 2017a
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, Ireson and Patry 2021
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 and Buckley 2021
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 February 25, 2022. 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 April 25, 2024).