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 426
Portrait de la mère de l'artiste
c.1870
Alternate titles: Portrait d'une paysanne; Ritratto della madre dell'atista
Rewald (148): 1869–70; Venturi: c.1871; Rivière: 1864 and 1866; Vollard: 1870; Cooper: (London) c.1866–67
Oil on canvas
21 1/16 x 14 5/8 in. (53.5 x 37 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 24b, ill. Traveled to: Musée d'Orsay, Cézanne: les années de jeunesse 1859-1872, Paris, September 19, 1988–January 1, 1989; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., January 29–April 30, 1989.
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni, March 7–July 7, 2002, listed p. 106, ill., as Ritratto della madre dell'atista, lent by Saint Louis Art Museum.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 2, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 1.3 (verso), ill. Traveled to: National Portrait Gallery, London, October 26, 2017–February 11, 2018; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, March 25–July 1, 2018.
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, Cezanne et les Maîtres, rêve d'Italie, February 27–July 5, 2020, no. 21, ill. lent by Saint Louis Art Museum.
Published References
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, pp. 196, 197, listed.
Vollard, Ambroise. "Souvenirs sur Cézanne." Cahiers d'art 6, nos. 9–10 (1931), p. 386, ill.
"Unknown Cézanne Work Found on Back of Retrieved Painting." New York Times, September 5, 1962, p. 41.
"[Aquisitions des musées du monde entier]." La Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 1129 (February 1963), p. 45, no. 165, ill., as Portrait d'une paysanne.
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. 148, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de la mère de l'artiste.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 38, fig. 1.27, as Portrait de la mère de l'artiste.
Ely, Bruno. "'Pater Omnipotens Aeterne Deus.' The purchase and sale of Jas de Bouffan by the Cézanne family." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 11, ill. in color.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 58; vol. 2, p. 57, as Portrait de la mère de l'artiste.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 2, 1866-67.
Cezanne, Jas de Bouffan: art et histoire. Under the scientific direction of Denis Coutagne and François Chédeville. Lyon; Aix-en-Provence: Fage édition; Société Paul Cezanne, 2019, fig. 44 p. 59.
Record last updated June 26, 2017. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de la mère de l'artiste, c.1870 (FWN 426)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=948 (accessed on April 23, 2024).
