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 491
Madame Cezanne en robe rouge
1888–90
Alternate titles: Bildnis seiner Frau in Rot; Femme en rouge (Madame Cezanne); Frau mit rotem Kleid; La femme en rouge; La signora Cézanne in abito rosso; Madame Cézanne; Madame Cézanne en rouge; Madame Cézanne in a Red Dress; Mme Cézanne in Rot; Mme Cézanne in rotem Kleid; Portrait; Portrait de madame Cézanne en rouge; Portrait de Mme Cézanne; Portrait de Mme Cézanne en rouge; Portrait of Madame Cézanne; Porträt Frau Cézanne; Porträt Madame Cézanne; Portret van Mme Cézanne in het rood
Rewald (652): 1888–90; Venturi revised: c.1890; Venturi (573): 1890–94
Oil on canvas
35 x 27 5/8 in. (89 x 70 cm)
Provenance
Paul Cassirer, Berlin (private collection)
Exhibition History
Städtische Ausstellungshalle, Cologne, Internationale Kunstausstellung des Sonderbundes Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, May 25–September 30, 1912, no. 145, as Frau mit rotem Kleid, lent by Flechtheim.
Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Düsseldorf, Germany, Eröffnungskatalog, 1913, no number, ill., p. 57, as Bildnis seiner Frau in Rot.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Cézanne-Ausstellung: Cézannes Werke in deutschem Privatbesitz: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, November–December 11, 1921, no. 22, ill., as Porträt Frau Cézanne, lent by P. Cassirer private collection.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Impressionisten, September–October 1925, no. 10, as Porträt Madame Cézanne.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, The Arts Club Exhibitions: Some Modern Paintings, December 21, 1926–January 24, 1927, no. 3, as Portrait, Lent by Henry Reinhardt & Company.
Reinhardt Galleries, New York, El Greco and Rembrandt to Cézanne and Matisse, January 15–February 5, 1927, no. 22, ill., as Portrait de Mme Cézanne, lent by Madame S. Paret.
McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, United Kingdom, A Century of French Painting, May 1927, no. 34, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne.
Galerie Barbazanges - Hodebert successeur, Paris, Tableaux des maîtres du XIXe et XXe siècle, December 9–31, 1927, no. 34, as La femme en rouge.
E.J. van Wisselingh & Co, Amsterdam, Cent Ans de peinture française, April 16–May 5, 1928, no. 2, ill., as Portrait de madame Cézanne en rouge, c. 1890.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, A Century of French Painting, November 12–December 8, 1928, no. 27, as Portrait de madame Cézanne en rouge, lent from the Paul Cassirer collection.
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, French Painting from the XVth Century to the Present, June 8–July 8, 1934, no. 67.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 84, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne en rouge, lent by Mrs. W.A. Clark.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 50, lent by Clark.
Orangerie, Paris, Chefs-d'oeuvre du Musée d'Art de São Paulo, October 10, 1953–January 1954, no. 5, ill. Traveled to: Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, January 14–February 28, 1954; Utrecht Centraal Museum, March 6–May 2, 1954; Berner Kunstmusuem, Bern, Switzerland, May 8–June 7, 1954; Tate Gallery, London, June 19–August 15, 1954; Palazzo reale, Milan, November 1954–February 1955.
Tate Gallery, London, Masterpieces from the São Paulo Museum of Art, June 19–August 15, 1954, no. 47, pl. XXXII.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from the São Paulo Museum of Art, March 21–June 2, 1957, no number, ill., on cover.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Französische Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts, von David bis Cézanne, October 7, 1964–January 6, 1965, no. 26, ill. not shown.
Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, September 18–October 7, 1986, no. 31, ill. Traveled to: Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan, October 10–November 9, 1986; Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, November 15–December 4, 1986.
Palazzo Forti, Verona, Italy, Da Manet a Toulouse-Lautrec, July 4–September 27, 1987, no number, ill., pp. 126–30. Traveled to: Serrone della Villa Reale, Monza, Italy, October 7–December 6, 1987; Villa Croce, Genova, Italy, December 17, 1987–February 21, 1988.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 43, ill.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 20, ill., as Portrait de madame Cézanne en rouge. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso, Italy, L'impressionismo e l'età di Van Gogh, October 9, 2002–March 30, 2003, no. 96, ill., as La signora Cézanne in abito rosso, lent by Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Madame Cézanne, November 19, 2014–March 15, 2015, n.n., pl. 21, as Madame Cézanne in a Red Dress, lent by Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand.
Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo Assis Chateaubriand - MASP, Sao Paulo, Arte da França: de Delacroix a Cézanne, July 17–November 8, 2015.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 41, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 14.3, 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.
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary, Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction, October 28, 2021–February 13, 2022, no. 3, ill.
Published References
Gleizes, Albert, and Jean Metzinger. Du "Cubisme". Paris: E. Figuière, 1912, pp. 8–10, pl. I.
Waldmann, Emil. "Paul Cézanne: zur Ausstellung im Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer." Kunst und Künstler 20, no. 4 (1922), p. 135, as Mme Cézanne in Rot.
Charensol, Georges. "Les expositions." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 73 (January 1, 1928), p. 34, as La femme en rouge.
Niehaus, Kasper. "Fransche schilderkunst, Cézanne, de redder." De Telegraaf (Amsterdam), April 25, 1928, ill. p. 9, as Portret van Mme Cézanne in het rood.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 573, ill. vol. II, as Madame Cézanne.
Goldwater, Robert J. "Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections." Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 139, ill.
Zervos, Christian. Histoire de l'art contemporain. Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'art, 1938, p. 37, ill.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 134, p. 251, ill. (analysis pp. 381–82).
Valsecchi, Marco. "Capolavori del Museo di San Paolo." L'Illustrazione Italiana 80, no. 12 (December 1953), p. 64, ill.
Bardi, P.M. and Hélène Adhémar. Art et Style. 30, L'art français au Musée d'art de Sao-Paulo. Paris, 1st trimester 1954, ill. in b/w (n.p.), as Portrait de madame Cézanne en rouge, c. 1890.
Bardi, Pietro Maria. "Paintings at São Paulo Museu de Arte." Connoisseur 133 (March 1954), p. 16, ill.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, p. 38, fig. 34.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 51, ill.
Cooper, Douglas. Alex Reid & Lefevre 1926–1976. London: The Lefevre Gallery, 1976, listed p. 90, ill. p. 91, as Portrait of Madame Cézanne, 1890-94, The Sao Paulo Museum.
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 65, ill. in color.
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 67, pl. 31.
Thomas, Denis. The Age of the Impressionists. Middlesex, U.K.: Holiday House, 1987, p. 157, ill.
Wattenmaker, Richard et al. Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, p. 224, fig. 2.
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. 652, ill. vol. 2, as Portrait de madame Cézanne en rouge.
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. 195, ill.
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, pl. 15, as Portrait de madame Cézanne en rouge.
Schaefer, Barbara, ed. "Sonderbundausstellung 1912 - Rekonstruktion." 1912, Mission Moderne: die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes. Cologne: Wienend, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, no. 145, p. 556.
Dascher, Ottfried. "Es ist was Wahnsinniges mit der Kunst" : Alfred Flechtheim - Sammler, Kunsthändler, Verleger. vol. 6, Quellenstudien zur Kunst: eine Schriftenreihe der International Music and Art Foundation, Walter Feilchenfeldt, ed. [Wädenswil]: Nimbus, 2013, listed p. 420, ill. p. 65, as Portrait de madame Cézanne en rouge.
Roux-Dessarps. "A propos de la galerie Barbazanges d'après le fond d'archives conservé au musée d'Orsay." Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français (Paris), année 2014 (2015), mentioned and ill. p. 14, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne en rouge.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 183, ill., as Femme en rouge (Madame Cezanne).
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Record last updated August 14, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Madame Cezanne en robe rouge, 1888–90 (FWN 491)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=633 (accessed on December 21, 2024).
