Catalogue entry

FWN 485

Portrait de madame Cezanne

1888–90

Alternate titles: Bildnis Frau Cézanne; Bildnis: Gattin des Kunstlers; Damenbildnis; Frau Cézanne; Madame Cézanne; Mme Cézanne en face; Portrait de madame Cézanne; Portrait de Mme Cézanne; Portrait of Madame Cézanne; Porträt der Gattin Cézannes

Rewald (683): 1888–90; Venturi revised: 1883–86; Venturi (522): 1885–87

Oil on canvas

36 1/2 x 28 3/4 in. (92.7 x 73 cm)

Vollard A stockbook: no. 4161, portrait de femme en gris, 92 x 73 cm

Vollard X stockbook: no. 5240

Vollard archives: photo no. 114, Annotated by Cezanne's son: circa 1889

Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (BF710)

Keywords

People
Family:
- Madame Cezanne / Hortense Fiquet »
Interiors
Wall decoration:
- baseboard »

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris, and Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris

Auguste Pellerin, Paris (July 7, 1904)

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (Oct. 10, 1911)

Ambroise Vollard, Paris (Oct. 10, 1911)

J.P. Schneider, Frankfurt (Aug. 7, 1912)

Sally Falk, Mannheim

Moderne Galerie [Heinrich Thannhauser], Munich (by 1916)

Christian Tetzen-Lund, Copenhagen (1916–17)

Galerie Barbazanges, Paris

Barnes Foundation, Merion and Philadelphia (July 7, 1923)

Exhibition History

1904 Berlin

Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Sonderausstellung Paul Cézanne, April 22–June 15, 1904, no number, as Mme Cézanne en face.

1912 Frankfurt am Main

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. 10, as Porträt der Gattin Cézannes, lent by Vollard, for sale.

1912b Munich

Moderne Galerie [Heinrich Thannhauser], Munich, [unknown title], December 1912, no. 15, as Damenbildnis, 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. 112–113, 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

Rosenhagen 1904a

Rosenhagen, Hans. "Von Ausstellungen und Sammlungen." Die Kunst für Alle 19, no. 17 (June 1, 1904), p. 402.

Gebhardt 1912

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.

Lübbecke 1912

Lübbecke, Fried. "Kunstausstellung: Frankfurt a. M." Kunst und Künstler 10, no. 12 (1912), p. 619, ill.

Moderne Galerie Tannhauser 1916a

Katalog der Modernen Galerie Heinrich Tannhäuser (Nachtragswerk I). Munich: Moderne Galerie Tannhauser, September 1916, p. 13, ill., as Bildnis: Gattin des Kunstlers.

Häuser 1918

Häuser, Henrik. "Ein dänischer Sammler [Tetzen-Lund]." Der Cicerone 10, no. 11/12 (June 1918), pp. 164-165, fig. 2 p. 161, as Bildnis Frau Cézanne.

Meier-Graefe 1918a

Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 162.

Westheim 1918b

Westheim, Paul. "Erinnerungen an eine Sammlung." Das Kunstblatt 2, no. 8 (August 1918), p. 235, ill. p. 235, as Bildnis Frau Cézanne.

Meier-Graefe 1922

Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 199.

Mullen 1923

Mullen, Mary. An Approach to Art. Merion, PA: The Barnes Foundation Press, 1923, p. 29, ill.

Bernard 1925

Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, ill. opposite p. 77.

Barnes 1925b

Barnes, Albert C. The Art in Painting. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1925, p. 488, ill. p. 384.

Barnes 1925c

Barnes, Albert C. "Cézanne." Journal of the Barnes Foundation 1, no. 3 (October 1925), p. 14, ill.

Bernard 1926a

Bernard, Émile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne, Une Conversation avec Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1926, ill. opp. p. 44.

Pfister 1927

Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 75, as Frau Cézanne.

Meier-Graefe 1927a

Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. LXIV.

Thomsen 1934

Thomsen, Oluf. Christian Tetzen-Lunds Samling of moderne fransk Malerkunst. Copenhagen: Tetzen-Lund, 1934, no. 8 of checklist, pl. 18, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne, dated c. 1900.

Venturi 1935b

Venturi, Lionello. "Paul Cézanne." L'Arte 6, nos. 4 and 5 (July 1935), p. 397, fig. 20.

Venturi 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 522, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.

Barnes and de Mazia 1939

Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 118, ill. p. 231 (analysis pp. 361–63).

Loran 1943

Loran, Erle. Cézanne's Composition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943, pp. 84–85, pl. XVII.

Loran 1963

Loran, Erle. "Pop Artists or Copycats?" Art News 62, no. 5 (September 1963), pp. 48–49.

Van Buren 1966

Buren, Anne H. van. "Madame Cézanne's Fashions and the Dates of Her Portraits." Art Quarterly 29, no. 2 (1966), fig. 11.

Sweeney 1972

Sweeney, James Johnson. "The Albert C. Barnes Collection." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 3, no. 2 (Autumn 1972), p. 32, pl. 10.

Gottlieb 1984

Gottlieb, Lennart. "Tetzen-Lunds samling: om dens historie, indhold og betydning." Kunst og Museum 19 (1984), pp. 5, 26 (of English translation).

Dorn 1994

Dorn, Roland. Stiftung und Sammlung Sally Falk. Mannheim: Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, 1994, no. 54, fig. 509.

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. 683, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.

Athanassoglou-Kallmyer 2003

Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 48, fig. 1.36, as Portrait de madame Cézanne.

Feilchenfeldt 2005a

Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Zur Rezeptionsgeschichte Cézannes in Deutschland." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 140, ill.

Machotka 2008

Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 260; vol. 2, p. 171, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.

Sidlauskas 2009

Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, pl. 11, as Portrait de madame Cézanne.

Echte and Feilchenfeldt 2011b

Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Paul Cézanne, 22. April bis 15. Juni 1904." Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1901-1905. vol. 2, "Man steht da und staunt". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2011, p. 507, ill.

Danchev 2012

Danchev, Alex. Cézanne: A Life. London: Profile Books, 2012, pl. 37.

Dolkart and Lucy 2012

Dolkart, Judith, Martha Lucy. The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2012, p. 95, ill. p. 84, comments by Judith Dolkart.

Gottlieb 2013

Gottlieb, Lennart. Modernism: Reinventing Painting, 1908–41. Aarhus: ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 141, fig. 99.

Kremnitzer 2014

Kremnitzer, Kathryn. "The Portraits of Hortense Fiquet, Madame Cézanne." In Madame Cézanne. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 208, listed, p. 82, pl. 25, as Portrait of Madame Cézanne.

Dauberville 2020

Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 180, ill., as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.

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. 37, pp. 186–98, as Madame Cézanne (catalogue notes by C. Armstrong).

Record last updated July 20, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de madame Cezanne, 1888–90 (FWN 485)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=930 (accessed on April 26, 2024).