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 541
La Dame en bleu
c.1904
Alternate titles: Dame en bleu; La femme en camisole bleue; Portrait de la dame en bleu
Rewald (944): c.1904; Venturi revised: c.1900; Venturi (705): 1900–1904; Reff: probably 1900–1902 (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
34 13/16 x 28 5/16 in. (88.5 x 72 cm)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4322, femme assise avec chapeau; appuyée sur une table et couverte d'un tapis, 92 x 73 cm (500 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 353 and [529], Annotated: 1899
Provenance
Exhibition History
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, Paul Cézanne: 50 Years since His Death, 1956, no. 21.
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, French Art from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Century, 1956, p. 56.
Musée de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la peinture française dans les musées de l'Ermitage et de Moscou, May 14–September 6, 1965, no. 57, as Portrait de la dame en bleu, 1900-04, lent by the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. Traveled to: Paris, September 1965–January 1966.
Réunion des musée nationaux, Paris, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la peinture française dans les musées de Leningrad et de Moscou, September 1965–January 1966, no. 49, ill., as La Dame en bleu, c. 1900-1904, lent by the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad.
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, [L'Art du Portrait - Egypte ancienne, Antiquité, Orient, Europe occidentale], 1972, no. 391.
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, [Impressionist paintings on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the first exhibition in 1874], 1974, no. 55, 1898-1899.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, France, Cézanne: The Late Work, October 7, 1977–January 3, 1978, no. 54, pl. 19. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 26–March 19, 1978; Grand Palais, Paris, Cezanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978 (see Paris 1978a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues).
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 11, ill.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Impressionist to Early Modern Paintings from the U.S.S.R., May 1–June 15, 1986, no. 7, ill. Traveled to: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, June 26–August 12, 1986; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, August 23–October 5, 1986.
Villa Favorita, Lugano, Switzerland, Impressionisten und Post-Impressionisten aus sowjetischen Museen II, August 9–November 15, 1987, no. 19, ill., as Dame en bleu, c. 1900.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 77, ill.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 188, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 44, ill., (dated c. 1900). Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Cézanne: Aufbruch in die Moderne, September 18, 2004–January 16, 2005, listed p. 233, ill. p. 47, as La Dame en bleu.
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, Icônes de l'art moderne, La collection Chtchoukine (Icons of Modern Art, The Shchukin Collection), October 22, 2016–March 5, 2017, pp. 247, 438, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 60, ill. shown in Paris only.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 23.1, ill. shown in Paris only. 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
Ternovietz, Boris Nikolaevich. "Le Musée d'Art moderne de Moscou (Anciennes collections Stchoukine et Morosoff)." L'Amour de l'art 6, no. 12 (December 1925), p. 470, as La femme en camisole bleue.
Catalogue du Musée d'art occidental moderne. Moscow: Museum of Modern Western Art, 1928, no. 550.
Réau, Louis. "III: Musée d'art occidental moderne à Moscou." In Catalogue de l'art français dans les musées russes. Paris: A. Colin, 1929, no. 732.
Becker, John. "The Museum of Modern Western Painting in Moscow—Part I." Creative Art 10 (March 1932), p. 200, discussed.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 705, ill. vol. II, as Dame en bleu.
"L'Art moderne français dans…le Musée d'Art Moderne Occidentale." Cahiers d'Art (1950), no. 6, listed p. 338, as Dame en bleu.
Sterling, Charles. Musée de l'Ermitage: La Peinture française de Poussin à nos jours. Paris: Cercle d'art, 1957, pl. 96.
Sterling, Charles. Great French Painting in the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. New York: Abrams, 1958, pl. 96.
Descargues, Pierre. The Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1961, pp. 222–23, ill.
Barskaya, Anna. French Painting, Second Half of the 19th and to Early 20th Century, The Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. Leningrad and New York: Aurora Art Publishers and Harry N. Abrams, 1975, no. 44, ill.
Gowing, Lawrence. "The Logic of Organized Sensations." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 65, ill.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, pp. 144-145, pl. 44,45.
Bessonova, Marina, and William Williams. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Hermitage, Leningrad, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York: Park Lane, 1986, p. 177, ill.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 221, ill. in color.
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 139, ill. in color.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 169, ill.
Kostenevich, Albert. From Monet to Picasso: Catalogue of 19th and 20th Century Paintings in the Hermitage. Leningrad: Avrora, 1989, pp. 454–55, figs. 60 and 61.
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 178, fig. 155, 1900–04.
Cahn, Isabelle. "Cézanne portraitiste." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 46, 1900-1904.
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. 944, ill. vol. 2, as La Dame en bleu.
Coutagne, Denis. "The Major Works in the Lauves Studio." In Atelier Cézanne, 1902–2002: Le centenaire. Aix-en-Provence: Société Paul Cézanne, 2002, fig. 22, ill. in color.
Dittmann, Lorenz. "Cézanne un der Cézanneismus der Künstlergruppe 'Karo-Bube.'" In Die russische Avantgarde und Paul Cézanne. Bönen: Kettler, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, p. 53, fig. 8.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "The Path to Les Lauves: A History of Cézanne's Studios." In Atelier Cézanne, 1902–2002: Le centenaire. Aix-en-Provence: Société Paul Cézanne, 2002, fig. 28, ill. in color.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Sammler. Von Zola bis Annenberg." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel,
Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 179, ill.
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, p. 138, fig. 35, as La Dame en bleu, dated c. 1900–04.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 210, pl. 97.
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 44.
Record last updated August 10, 2018. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Dame en bleu, c.1904 (FWN 541)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=917 (accessed on October 15, 2024).
