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 489
Portrait de madame Cezanne
1886–87
Alternate titles: Bildnis Mad. Cézanne; La signora Cézanne in azzurro; Madame Cézanne; Madame Cézanne de azul; Madame Cézanne en bleu; Madame Cézanne in Blue; Mme. Cézanne in Blau; Podobizna; Portrait de Madame Cézanne; Portrait de madame Cézanne, en bleu; Portrait de Mme Cézanne; Portrait of Madame Cézanne; Portrait of Mme Cézanne in Blue
Rewald (650): 1888–90; Venturi revised: 1886–88; Venturi (529): 1885–87
Oil on canvas
29 3/16 x 24 in. (74.1 x 61 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
S.V.U. Mánes, Pavillon Mánes, Prague, Francouzští mistři [French Masters], December 1923, no. 27, ill., as Podobizna (Portrait).
Leicester Galleries, London, Paintings and Drawings by Paul Cézanne, June–July 1925, no. 14, ill. in b/w, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.
Galerie Thannhauser, Vereinshaus der Berliner Künstler, Berlin, Erste Sonderausstellung in Berlin, January 9–mid-February, 1927, no. 23, ill., as Bildnis Mad. Cézanne, lent by Halvorsen.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Masterpieces by nineteenth century French painters, October–November 1930, no. 2, ill., as Portrait de madame Cézanne, en bleu.
Society of Fine Arts, Wilmington, Delaware, French Paintings, 1931, no. 3, ill.
Knoedler Galleries, Chicago, A Century of French Painting, February 24–March 14, 1931, no. 3, ill.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Pictures of People, 1870–1930, April 6–18, 1931, no. 6, ill., as Portrait de madame Cézanne, en bleu.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Modern French Painting, May 22–June 30, 1931, no. 15, as Portrait of Mme Cézanne in Blue, lent by Knoedler.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 312, (dated 1890–95), lent by Knoedler.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, French Painting of the 19th Century, January 1934, no. 15. Traveled to: Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, February 1934; Art Association, Montreal, March 1934.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 23, ill. lent by J. Thannhauser.
Town Hall, Melbourne, Australia, Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art, opening: October 16, 1939, no. 23, ill., as Portrait de Madame Cézanne, 1885-1887. Traveled to: Exhibition Gallery, David Jones', Sidney, Australia, opening: November 20, 1939.
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 31, pl. XII, lent by Thannhauser.
Société des artistes indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, 50e exposition - Centenaire du peintre indépendant Paul Cézanne, March 17–April 10, 1939, no. 14, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne, lent by Thannhauser ("exhibited for the first time").
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, French Art of the Nineteenth Century, 1942, no. 7.
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, French Art of the 19th and 20th Centuries, November 1942, no. 7.
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York, Old Masters of Modern Art, April–May 1944.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Knoedler's One Hundred Years, 1846–1946, April 1–27, 1946, no. 19.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Selected French Paintings, December 26, 1946–January 11, 1947.
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Paintings by Paul Cézanne, February 5–March 9, 1947, no. 7, ill. lent by Knoedler.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 67, ill. lent by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Art in the Twentieth Century, June 17–July 10, 1955.
La Jolla Art Center, San Diego, Great French Paintings, June 15–July 26, 1956, no. 3, ill.
Galleries of the Art Department, University of California, Berkeley, California, Art from Ingres to Pollock: Painting and Sculpture since Neoclassicism, March 6–April 3, 1960, ill., p. 18.
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, Important European Paintings from Texas Private Collections, November–December 1964, no. 7, ill.
Musée de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, La peinture française: collections américaines, May 13–September 15, 1966, no. 55, pl. 41, as Portrait de madame Cézanne, en bleu, c. 1885-1887, lent by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Musée Saint-Georges, Liège, Belgium, Cézanne, March 12–May 9, 1982, no. 18, ill. 1885-87. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 12–August 31, 1982 (exhibition catalogue; preface by Denis Coutagne).
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne, June 12–August 31, 1982, no. 18, ill.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 38, ill.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 125, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Cézanne i blickpunkten, October 17, 1997–January 11, 1998, no. 5, ill., pp. 38–39 (dated 1888–90).
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 69, ill., as Portrait de madame Cezanne, 1885-87, lent bye The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
The Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, Faces of Impressionism, Portraits from American Collections, October 10, 1999–January 30, 2000, no. 16, ill. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 25–May 7, 2000; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, May 28–July 30, 2000.
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni, March 7–July 7, 2002, listed p. 168, ill., as La signora Cézanne in azzurro, lent by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, El espejo y la máscara: el retrato en el siglo de Picasso, February 6–May 20, 2007, no. 42, ill., and ill. p. 24 (detail), as Madame Cézanne de azul, 1888-1890. Traveled to: Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, June 17–September 16, 2007.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Homage to Cézanne: His Influence on the Development of Twentieth Century Painting, November 15, 2008–January 25, 2009, no. 9, ill., and cover, as Portrait de madame Cezanne. Traveled to: Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan, February 7–April 12, 2009.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 127, ill.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Madame Cézanne, November 19, 2014–March 15, 2015, n.n., pl. 18, lent by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 40, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 13.2, 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
Anonymous. "Výtvarné uměni: Ještě francouzské uměni [Fine Art: Regarding French Art]." Venkov: orgán České strany agrární (Prague) (December 30, 1923), p. 4, as Podobizna.
jč. "Kulturní kronika: Francouzští mistři [Cultural Chronicle: French Masters]." Lidové noviny (Brno) (December 13, 1923), p. 7, as Podobizna.
Jamot, Paul. "L'art français en Norvège." La Renaissance (Paris; New York), vol. 12, no. 2 (February 1929), p. 101, ill. p. 89, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne, Walther Halvorsen collection.
"School of Art Has Given Impetus to Entire Modern Movement, Claim." Detroit Free Press, May 31, 1931, p. 41, ill., as Madame Cézanne en bleu.
Bulliet, Clarence Joseph. Art masterpieces in a Century of Progress, vol. I. Chicago: North-Mariano Press, 1933, pl. 44.
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Art in the Century in Progress." Fine Arts 20, no. 2 (June 1933), p. 36, ill.
Bulliet, Clarence Joseph. The Significant Moderns and Their Pictures. New York: Covici, 1936, pl. 7.
Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1936, fig. 4.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 529, ill. vol. II, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.
Vollard, Ambroise. Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux. Paris: Albin Michel, 1937, pl. 24.
Gaunt, William. "Paul Cézanne: An Essay in Valuation of the Ideals and Achievements of the Greatest Amateur of an Amateur Age in Painting." Studio 116, no. 564 (September 1938), p. 143, ill.
The Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston - Texas vol. 10, number 2 (Spring 1948), ill. front cover, as Madame Cézanne in Blue.
Ramuz, Charles Ferdinand. L'exemple de Cézanne suivi de Pages sur Cézanne: dessins et peintures. Lausanne: Mermod, 1951, ill. p. 22, as Madame Cézanne.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 14.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: A Guide to the Collection. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1981, no. 194, pp. 112-113, ill., as Madame Cézanne in Blue, 1885-1887.
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 31, ill. in color.
Rishel, Joseph J. Cézanne in Philadelphia Collections. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1983. Exhibition catalogue, p. 20, fig. 9b.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 93, ill. in color.
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 90, ill. in color.
Marzio, Peter C. (Introduction). A permanent legacy: 150 works from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. New York: Hudson Hills; in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1989, pp. 182-183, as Madame Cézanne in Blue, 1885-1887.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 68.
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. 650, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.
Feilchenfeldt, Christina. "Portraits." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 170, fig. 1, as Portrait de madame Cezanne.
Schmidt, Bertram. "Picasso und Cézanne. Zur Entstehung der kubistischen Bildsprache." In Jahrbuch der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen in Baden-Württemberg 44, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Baden-Württemberg. Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2007, p. 92, fig. 7 (detail).
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, pp. 126, ill., p. 322, pl. 111, as Madame Cézanne in Blue.
Kienle, Anabelle. "Cézanne and Beckmann: 'A Powerful New Pictorial Architecture.'" In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009, p. 322, pl. 111, as Madame Cézanne in Blue.
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, pl. 9, as Portrait de madame Cezanne.
Shiff, Richard. "Lucky Cézanne (Cézanne Tychique)." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 82, ill., p. 322, pl. 111, as Madame Cézanne in Blue.
Leeman, Fred. Emile Bernard (1868–1941). Paris: Wildenstein Institute and Citadelles & Mazenod, 2013, p. 354, fig. 84.
Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Gli artisti italiani e Cézanne." In Cézanne et gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 63, fig. 79.
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. 6.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 88.
France-Lanord, Hadrien. La couleur et la parole: les chemins de Paul Cézanne et de Martin Heidegger. Paris: Gallimard, 2018, ill. p. 116 (detail), as Madame Cézanne en bleu.
Force (editor), Christel H. Pioneers of the Global Art Market, Paris-Based Dealer Networks, 1850–1950. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020, pp. 147, 155 (n.82).
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. 10, as Portrait of Madame Cézanne.
Notes
After her marriage to Cézanne in April 1886, Hortense Fiquet and Paul junior lived in Aix at 10bis Cours Sextius until the end of 1887; the artist lived at the Jas de Bouffan with his mother. This portrait was executed at the Jas de Bouffan. The same panelling in the background of Portrait d'Henri Gasquet, 1896 (522).
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Portrait de madame Cezanne, 1886–87 (FWN 489)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=631 (accessed on April 19, 2024).
