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 488
Portrait de madame Cezanne
1886–87
Alternate titles: Madame Cézanne; Portrait; Portrait de madame Cézanne; Portrait of Madame Cézanne; Ritratto di Madame Cézanne
Rewald (581): 1888–90; Venturi revised: 1886–88; Venturi (530): 1885–87
Oil on canvas
18 5/16 x 15 3/16 in. (46.5 x 38.5 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition Paul Cézanne (au profit de la caisse du monument Cézanne), March 3–24, 1924.
Musée de Cannes, Cannes, France, La Provence et ses peintres au XIXe siècle, 1929, no. 7, lent by Matisse.
Paul Rosenberg, Paris, Exposition Cézanne (1839-1906), organisée à l'occasion de son centenaire au profit de l’œuvre de l'allaitement maternel, February 21–April 1, 1939, no. 17, ill., (dated 1887), as Portrait de madame Cézanne, 1887, lent by Matisse.
Rosenberg & Helft, London, Exhibition Cézanne (1839-1906) to celebrate his centenary, April 19–May 20, 1939, no. 11, ill., (dated 1887), lent by Matisse.
Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Dation Pierre Matisse, June 18–September 30, 1992, pp. 77-79, ill. 79, as Portrait de madame Cézanne, 1885-87.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 126, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, De l'impressionnisme à l'Art nouveau: acquisitions du musée d'Orsay 1990-1996, October 16, 1996–January 5, 1997, pp. 138-139, ill., as Portrait de madame Cézanne, 1885-1890.
City Museum, Kobe, Japan, Rêve et réalité: collections du musée d'Orsay, June 19–August 29, 1999, no. 118, ill., as Portrait of Madame Cézanne, 1888-1890. Traveled to: National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, September 14–December 12, 1999.
Grand Palais, Paris, Paris - Barcelone: de Gaudí à Miró, October 9, 2001–January 14, 2002, p. 314, ill. 1885, shown in Barcelona only. Traveled to: Museu Picasso, Barcelona, Japan, February 28–May 26, 2002.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia, Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne & beyond, Post-impressionism from the Musée d'Orsay, December 4, 2009–April 5, 2010, no. 37, ill., as Portrait de madame Cézanne, 1885-90.
National Art Center, Tokyo, Post-impressionnisme: 115 chefs-d’œuvre de la collection du Musée d’Orsay, May 26–August 16, 2010, no. 33, ill., as Portrait de madame Cézanne, 1885-90.
de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay, September 2010–January 2011, no. 22, ill., as Portrait de madame Cézanne, 1885-90.
Fundación Cultural MAPFRE, Madrid, Impresionistas y postimpresionistas: el nacimiento del arte moderno, February 2–May 5, 2013, no. 25, ill., as Portrait de madame Cézanne, 1885-90.
Musée Gustave Courbet, Ornans, France, Courbet/Cézanne: La vérité en peinture, June 29–October 14, 2013, no. 23, ill., as Portrait of Madame Cézanne, 1885-1890.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Madame Cézanne, November 19, 2014–March 15, 2015, n.n., pl. 16 (dated c. 1885–88), as Portrait of Madame Cézanne, lent by Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Impressionisti dal Musée d'Orsay: 'Tête à tête', October 15, 2015–February 7, 2016, no. 64, ill., as Ritratto di Madame Cézanne, 1885-1890.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 38, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 13.1, 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
Faure, Elie. "Toujours Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 1, no. 8 (December 1920), ill. p. 270, as Portrait.
Fontainas, André and Louis Vauxcelles. "Paul Cézanne." Histoire générale de l'art français de la Révolution à nos jours: la peinture, la gravure, le dessin. Paris: Librairie de France, 1922, ill. p. 234, as Portrait.
"Cézanne d'après ses historiens." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 5, no. 5 (March 1, 1924), ill. p. 114.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 530, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de madame Cézanne.
Bagarry, Adrien-Pierre. "Le centenaire de Cézanne." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 22, no. 1 (March 1939), p. 7, ill., as Portrait de madame Cézanne, 1887, Henri Matisse collection.
"Pariskrönika: Cézanne-utställningar." Konstrevy (Stockholm) XV, no. 3 (1939), ill. p. 115, as Madame Cézanne.
Buren, Anne H. van. "Madame Cézanne's Fashions and the Dates of Her Portraits." Art Quarterly 29, no. 2 (1966), p. 124, note 5.
Patin, Sylvie. "Deux 'figures' de Cézanne au musée d'Orsay." Revue du Louvre - la revue des musées de France, no. 1 (April 1992), pp. 16-17, ill. p. 18, as Portrait de madame Cézanne, 1885-87.
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. 581, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de madame Cézanne.
Bois, Yve-Alain. "Cézanne and Matisse: From Apprenticeship to Creative Misreading." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 116, fig. 4.9, as Portrait of Madame Cézanne.
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, pl. 12, as Portrait de madame Cézanne, dated c. 1885–88.
Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Gli artisti italiani e Cézanne." In Cézanne et gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 59, fig. 72, CHECK.
Grammont, Claudine. "Les Cézanne de Matisse, 1865–1881." In Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 81, fig. 5.
Shiff, Richard. "Mimetic Cézanne." In Cézanne and the past : tradition and creativity [international symposium, Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, 28 January 2013]. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2017, fig. 5.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 88.
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. 194, fig. 9, as Portrait of Madame Cézanne.
Record last updated April 30, 2021. 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, 1886–87 (FWN 488)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=568 (accessed on December 21, 2024).
