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)
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Erik Cornelius; © The National Museum of Fine Arts
FWN 442
Madame Cezanne cousant
c.1877
Alternate titles: Madame Cézanne; Madame Cézanne au fauteuil rouge; Madame Cézanne cousant; Madame Cézanne Sewing; Nähende Frau (Madame Cézanne); Portrait de Mme Cézanne; Portrait of the Artist's Wife; Porträt
Rewald (323): c.1877; Venturi revised: c.1877; Venturi (291): c.1877; Rivière: 1877
Oil on canvas
23 7/16 x 19 1/2 in. (59.5 x 49.5 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XII. Jahrgang, III. Ausstellung, November 17–December 12, 1909, no. 4, as Nähende Frau (Madame Cézanne), lent by Vollard.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Französische Kunst des XIX. und XX. Jahrhunderts, October 5–November 14, 1917, no. 9, ill., as Madame Cézanne, lent by A.K[ann].
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition rétrospective Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) au profit de la caisse du Monument Cézanne, June 1–30, 1926, no. 29, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne, propably lent by Hessel; shown in an installation photo in Dauberville, 2020, p. 117.
Galerie de la Renaissance, Paris, Portraits et figures de femmes: Ingres à Picasso, June 1–30, 1928, no. 29, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne, lent by J. Hessel.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The museum's first loan exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, November 8–December 7, 1929, no. 6, ill., (dated c. 1880), as Madame Cézanne Sewing, lent by Joseph Hessel.
Galerie Pigalle, Paris, Exposition Cèzanne, 1839–1906, January 4–February 7, 1930, no. 22, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne, lent by Hessel.
Durand-Ruel and Paul Rosenberg, Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, Great French Masters of the Nineteenth Century, February 12–March 10, 1934, no. 2, ill., (dated 1880), as Madame Cézanne cousant.
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Cézanne and Gauguin, November 1–December 13, 1936, no. 33, ill., as Madame Cézanne au fauteuil rouge, lent by Durand-Ruel, New York.
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Cézanne till Picasso, fransk konst i svensk ägo, September 1954, no. 67, ill. p. 19, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne, 1880.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Cézanne i blickpunkten, October 17, 1997–January 11, 1998, no. 3, ill., pp. 32–35.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Impressionism and the North: Late 19th Century French Avant-Garde Art and the Art in the Nordic Countries 1870–1920, September 25, 2002–January 19, 2003, no. 31, ill., p. 197, as Portrait of the Artist's Wife. Traveled to: Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark, February 21–May 25, 2003.
Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, Cézanne & Giacometti: Paths of Doubt, February 20–June 29, 2008, no. 7, ill. p. 50, as Madame Cézanne cousant, lent by Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne et Paris, October 12, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 56, ill., p. 187, as Madame Cézanne cousant, lent by Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Madame Cézanne, November 19, 2014–March 15, 2015, n.n., pl. 5, as Madame Cézanne Sewing, lent by Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 23, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 7.2, 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.
Published References
Duret, Théodore. "Paul Cézanne." Kunst und Künstler 5, no. 3 (1907), ill. p. 103, as Porträt.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 134.
Faure, Élie. Histoire de l'Art. L'Art moderne. Paris: Les Éditions Crès, 1921, ill. p. 397.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 164.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 204, listed.
Anonymous. "L'exposition du peintre aixois Paul Cézanne." Le Petit Provençal, June 2, 1926, p. 2, as Madame Cézanne.
Thiébault-Sisson, François. "L'exposition Cézanne." Le Temps (Paris) (June 8, 1926), p. 4, as Madame Cézanne.
Dormoy, Marie, translated by Margarete Mauthner. "Die Cézanne - Ausstellung bei Bernheim-Jeune." Kunst und Künstler 24, no. 11 (1926), pp. 447-448.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XL.
Alexandre, Arsène. "Portraits et figures de femmes: Ingres à Picasso." La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe (Paris), vol. 11, no. 7 (July 1928), ill. p. 279, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne.
Jewell, Edward Alden. "Was Cézanne an Industrious 'Painter Without Taste'?" New York Times Book Review, January 22, 1928, p. 5, ill.
Bernard, Tristan. "Jos Hessel." La Renaissance (Paris; New York), vol. 13, no. 1 (January 1930), ill. p. 13, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne.
Morselle, Mary. "French Paintings of the XIXth Century in Benefit Show: Mr. Rosenberg and Durand-Ruel Organize Remarkable Show Emphasizing French Loans Never Shown in America." Art News 32, no. 20 (February 17, 1934), p. 3, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 291, ill. vol. II, as Madame Cézanne cousant.
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Cézanne: Intimate Exhibition." Art News 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 15, ill.
Blomberg, Erik. "Fransk-svensk konstallians." Konstrevy (Stockholm) 17, no. 4 (1941), p. 132, ill.
Guerry, Liliane. Cézanne et l'expression de l'espace. Paris: Flammarion, 1950, pp. 65–66.
Buren, Anne H. van. "Madame Cézanne's Fashions and the Dates of Her Portraits." Art Quarterly 29, no. 2 (1966), p. 127, note 20.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 57, ill.
Abel, Ulf. "The Sandblom Collection." In The Grace and Philip Sandblom Collection. Stockholm: Nationalmuseum, 1981, p. 82, ill.
Kirsch, Robert. "Paul Cézanne: Jeune fille au piano and Some Portraits of His Wife. An Investigation of His Painting of the Late 1870's." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 110, periode 6 (July–August 1987), p. 21, fig. 2 p.24.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, pp. 147–48.
Asmussen, Marianne. Wilhelm Hansen's Original French Collection at Ordrupgaard. Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1993, pp. 280–81, ill.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 170, fig. 1.
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. 323, ill. vol. 2, as Madame Cézanne cousant.
Reff, Theodore. Review of The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, by John Rewald, in collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. The Burlington Magazine 139, no. 1136 (November 1997), p. 800, questions Rewald's date because of debate over the location of the wallpaper.
Prunster, Ursula. "Seeing Cézanne: Australian Affinities." In Classic Cézanne. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998. Exhibition catalogue, p. 64, fig. 28.
Feilchenfeldt, Christina. "Portraits." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 135, fig. 1, as Madame Cézanne cousant.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 45, fig. 1.33, as Madame Cézanne cousant.
Leca, Benedict. "Le Monde est une pomme: nature mortes et portraits parisiens de Cézanne." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 117, ill., as Madame Cézanne cousant.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 96, pl. 17.
Mitterand, Henri. Paul Cézanne, Émile Zola, Lettres croisées, 1858–1887. Paris: Gallimard, 2016, fig. 11.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 186, ill.
Smith, Paul. "Vermilion, or why Cézanne took the shine off things." Word & Image 36, nio. 1 (2020), p. 73, fig. 10.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 190, fig. 4, as Madame Cézanne Sewing.
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Record last updated March 28, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Madame Cezanne cousant, c.1877 (FWN 442)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=319 (accessed on December 21, 2024).
