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Catalogue entry

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)
Saint Louis Art Museum
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Galerie E. Bignou, Paris
[Knoedler Galleries, New York]
Saint Louis Art Museum (May 1934)
Exhibition History
1988–89a London and traveling
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.
2002 Rome
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.
2017 Paris
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 2, ill.
2017–18 Paris and traveling
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.
2020 Paris
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 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, pp. 196, 197, listed.
Vollard 1931
Vollard, Ambroise. "Souvenirs sur Cézanne." Cahiers d'art 6, nos. 9–10 (1931), p. 386, ill.
New York Times 1962
"Unknown Cézanne Work Found on Back of Retrieved Painting." New York Times, September 5, 1962, p. 41.
Gazette des beaux-arts 1963
"[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 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. 148, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de la mère de l'artiste.
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. 38, fig. 1.27, as Portrait de la mère de l'artiste.
Ely 2004
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 2008
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 2018
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 2, 1866-67.
Société Paul Cezanne 2019
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 May 3, 2024).