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 447
Madame Cezanne à l'éventail
begun c. 1879; reworked 1886–88
Alternate titles: Die Frau des Künstlers im Sessel; La Dame à l'éventail; La dame à l'éventail (Portrait de Mme Cézanne); La Femme de l'artiste dans un fauteuil (Madame Cézanne à l'éventail); Madame Cézanne à l'éventail; Madame Cézanne mit dem Fächer; Madame Cézanne with a Fan; Mme Cézanne auf rotem Sessel; Portrait de femme; Portrait of the Artist's Wife; The Artist's Wife in an Armchair
Rewald (606): begun 1878; reworked 1886–88; Venturi revised: 1879–80; Venturi (369): 1879–82; Cooper: 1879; Gowing: related to No. 421, 1879–80; Ratcliffe: probably 1879
Oil on canvas
36 3/8 x 28 11/16 in. (92.5 x 73 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 4165, portrait de Madame Cezanne, 92 x 73 cm
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4061, Femme à l'éventail assise dans fauteuil rouge, 92 x 73 cm (300 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 606, Annotated by Cezanne's son: circa 1877
Provenance
Exhibition History
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Sonderausstellung Paul Cézanne, April 22–June 15, 1904, no number, as Mme Cézanne auf rotem Sessel.
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Salle Cézanne, October 15–November 15, 1904, no. 9, as La Dame à l'éventail, lent by Vollard.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910, no. 40, as Portrait de femme, lent by L.D. Stein.
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Sammlung Emil G. Bührle, June 8–September 30, 1958, no. 223, pl. XIII.
Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, Französische Malerei von Manet bis Matisse aus der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle / Zürich, October 5–November 23, 1958, no. 52, ill. in color, as Die Frau des Künstlers im Sessel, c. 1880.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Hauptwerke der Sammlung E.G. Bührle, December 1958–February 1959, no. 18.
Petit Palais, Paris, De Géricault à Matisse: chefs-d'oeuvre français des collections suisses, March–May 1959, no. 16, pl. 33.
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Masterpieces of French Painting from the Bührle Collection, August 19–September 17, 1961, no. 32, ill., pl. 14b, shown only in London. Traveled to: National Gallery, London, 1961.
Palais de Beaulieu, Lausanne, Switzerland, Chefs-d'œuvre des collections suisses: de Manet à Picasso, May 1–October 25, 1964, no. 89, ill., as La dame à l'éventail (Portrait de Mme Cézanne), 1879-1882, lent by Foundation E. G. Bührle, Zurich.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., The Passionate Eye: Impressionist and Other Master Paintings from the Collection of Emil G. Bührle, Zürich, May 6–July 15, 1990, no. 39, ill., (dated c. 1878), as The Artist's Wife in an Armchair, lent by Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection. Traveled to: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, August 3–October 14, 1990; Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, November 2, 1990–January 13, 1991; Royal Academy of Arts, London, February 1–April 9, 1991.
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Cézanne: Aufbruch in die Moderne, September 18, 2004–January 16, 2005, listed p. 231, ill. p. 34, as Madame Cézanne à l'éventail (not shown).
Grand Palais, Paris, Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso ... L'aventure des Stein, October 5, 2011–January 16, 2012, no. 119, ill., as La Femme de l'artiste dans un fauteuil (Madame Cézanne à l'éventail), 1878-1888, lent by Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zurich; shown in Paris only.
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 86, ill. lent by Fondation Collection E.G. Bührle, Zurich.
Published References
Pach, Walter. "The Point of View of the 'Moderns.'" Century Magazine 87, no. 6 (April 1914), p. 862, ill.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne: 24 phototypies. Paris: Librairie de France, [1928], [pl. 7], as La Dame à l'éventail.
Stein, Gertrude. The Autobiography of Alice B. Tolkas. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1933, (quoted above).
Stein, Gertrude. "L'atelier de Gertrude Stein." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 11, periode 6 (April 1934), fig. 4, p. 237, appears in photograph of Gertrude Stein's studio.
Vollard, Ambroise. Recollections of a Picture Dealer. Translated by Violet M. MacDonald. New York: Dover Publications, 1936, p. 137.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 369, ill. vol. II, as La Dame à l'éventail.
Buren, Anne H. van. "Madame Cézanne's Fashions and the Dates of Her Portraits." Art Quarterly 29, no. 2 (1966), fig. 5.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 105.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, p. 28, fig. 23.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 14, ill.
Mellow, James R. Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein & Company. New York: Praeger, 1974, p. 91.
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 63, ill. in color.
Wetzel, Christoph. Paul Cézanne: Leben u. Werk. Stuttgart/Zurich: Belser, 1984, p. 38, ill. in color.
"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), p. 38, ill.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 56, 63, 72, 94, fig. 59, and pl. V.
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. 606, ill. vol. 2, as Madame Cézanne à l'éventail.
Gloor, Lukas and Marco Goldin, eds. Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bühle Zürich, Katalog III. Conegliano and Zurich: Linea d'ombra Libri and Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, 2004, pl. 112.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Sammler. Von Zola bis Annenberg." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel,
Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 177, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 248; vol. 2, p. 167, as Madame Cézanne à l'éventail.
Cowling, Elizabeth. "'Le drame de l'homme.' Le Cézannisme de Picasso en 1906–08." In Picasso, Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 44, fig. 5, as Madame Cézanne à l'éventail.
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, p. 5, fig. 2, as Madame Cézanne à l'éventail, dated c. 1879–82, possibly reworked 1886–88.
Dachy, Marc. "L'art moderne, un passion naissante: Une incroyable collection d'avant-garde." Beaux-arts magazine (Paris) hors-serie (November 2, 2011), pp. 17et 20, ill. p. 14, as Madame Cézanne à l'éventail, 1878-1888.
Parker, Robert McD. "Catalogue of the Stein Collections." In The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avent-Garde, edited by Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 396, no. 10, pl. 2, as Madame Cézanne with a Fan.
Parker, Robert McD. with the collaboration of Maxime Touillet. "Résidences de Leo Stein' and 'Résidences de Gertrude Stein." In Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso … L'aventure des Stein, edited by Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, Rebecca Rabinow and Gary Tinterow. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 150-151, no. 15 in fig. 61 and 62, p. 396, no. 6 in fig. 55, p. 398, no. 10 in fig. 57, p. 400, no. 8 in fig. 59 and p. 402, no. 12 in fig. 62, as La Femme de l'artiste dans un fauteuil (Madame Cézanne à l'éventail).
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. 504, ill.
Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Gli artisti italiani e Cézanne." In Cézanne et gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 40, fig. 23.
Kremnitzer, Kathryn. "The Portraits of Hortense Fiquet, Madame Cézanne." In Madame Cézanne. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 195–96, listed, p. 26, pl. 6, as Portrait of the Artist's Wife.
Cézanne: Pioneer of Modern Art. Kanagawa: Pola Museum of Art, Pola Art Foundation, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, p. 120, fig. 24.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. London and Princeton, N,J.: National Portrait Gallery Publications and Princeton University Press, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 42.
Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Cezanne et le Novecento." In Cezanne et les Maîtres, rêve d'Italie. Vanves: Editions Hazan, 2020. Exhibition catalogue, p. 157, fig. 2.
Etgar, Yuval. "Die Werke Paul Cézannes: eingenommen von Blickbezügen." In Die Sammlung Emil Bührle: Geschichte, Gesamtkatalog und 70 Meisterwerke. München: Hirmer, 2021, pp. 399-400, ill. p. 404, as Madame Cézanne mit dem Fächer.
Gloor, Lukas. "Der Bestand der Sammlung Emil Bührle: Illustrierte Liste aller 633 Käufe." In Die Sammlung Emil Bührle: Geschichte, Gesamtkatalog und 70 Meisterwerke. München: Hirmer, 2021, p. 268, no. 240, fig. 240 p. 269, as Madame Cézanne à l'éventail.
Record last updated February 8, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Madame Cezanne à l'éventail, begun c. 1879; reworked 1886–88 (FWN 447)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=589 (accessed on April 20, 2024).
