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 493
Madame Cezanne en robe rouge
1888–90
Alternate titles: Femme assise (Madame Cezanne); Grand Portrait de Mme Cézanne en rouge; Großes Porträt der Frau Cézanne in Rot; Madame Cézanne à la chaise jaune; Madame Cézanne au fauteuil jaune; Madame Cézanne au rideau; Madame Cézanne im roten Kleid; Madame Cézanne in a Red Dress; Madame Cézanne in a Yellow Chair; Madame Cézanne in rotem Kleid; Mme Cézanne; Podobizna choti umělcovy; Portrait; Portrait de madame Cézanne; Portrait de Mme Cézanne; Portrait of Mme Cézanne
Rewald (655): 1888–90; Venturi revised: c.1890; Venturi (570): 1890–94; Rivière: 1887
Oil on canvas
45 7/8 x 35 1/4 in. (116.5 x 89.5 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 4175, femme en rouge sous draperie B[ernheim], 115 x 90 cm
Vollard archives: photo no. 100, Annotated: 1887
Provenance
Exhibition History
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Rétrospective d'oeuvres de Cézanne, October 1–22, 1907, no. 18, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne, lent by Pellerin.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 76, as Grand Portrait de Mme Cézanne en rouge, lent by Pellerin.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 41, ill.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 167, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Masterpieces of French Painting from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1800–1920, February 4–May 6, 2007, no. 79, ill.
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Französische Meisterwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts aus dem Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 1–October 7, 2007, listed pp. 208-209, ill., as Madame Cézanne im roten Kleid.
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, El Greco y la pintura moderna [English translation: El Greco & Modern Painting], June 24–October 5, 2014, no. 17, ill., as Madame Cézanne in a Red Dress.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Madame Cézanne, November 19, 2014–March 15, 2015, n.n., pl. 22, lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 42, ill. shown in Paris and Washington only.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 14.4, ill. shown in Paris and Washington only. Traveled to: National Portrait Gallery, London, October 26, 2017–February 11, 2018; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, March 25–July 1, 2018.
National Gallery, London, After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art, March 25–August 13, 2023, no. 8, ill., as Madame Cézanne in a Red Dress.
Published References
Nordau, Max. "Der Herbstsalon: II." Neue Freie Presse. Morgenblatt (Vienna), October 19, 1907, p. 3, as Frauenstudie.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 167.
Coquiot, Gustave. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Ollendorf, 1919, ill. p. 248 (opposite), as Portrait de Mme Cézanne.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 201.
Denis, Maurice. "Le dessin de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 5, no. 2 (February 1924), ill. p. 39, as Portrait, (Coll. Pellerin).
Fry, Roger. "Le développement de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 7, no. 12 (December 1926), ill. p. 408, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, p. 68, fig. 34, pl. XXIII.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. LXVIII.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 111, ill.
Benesch, Otto. "Cézanne: zur 30. Wiederkehr seines Todestages am 22. Oktober." Die Kunst für Alle 52, no. 3 (December 1936), ill. p. 62, as Großes Porträt der Frau Cézanne in Rot, c. 1888-90.
Flament, Albert. "Tableaux de Paris: Peinture." La Revue de Paris (Paris) (September 1936), p. 949, as Portrait de madame Cézanne.
Larguier, Léo. Paul Cézanne ou le drame de la peinture. Paris: Denoël et Steele, 1936, p. 17, ill.
Rewald, John. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Art sacré: revue mensuelle, special number, Cézanne (May 1936), p. 8, fig. 19 p. 25, as Madame Cézanne au rideau.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 570, ill. vol. II, as Madame Cézanne au fauteuil jaune.
Slavíček, Jan. "Zprávy a úvahy: Paul Cézanne." Volné směry (Prague) vol. 33, issue 1 (1937), ill. p. 122, as Podobizna choti umělcovy, 1888-90.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 133, p. 217, ill. (analysis pp. 373–74).
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 91, ill.
Guerry, Liliane. "Le Problème de l'équilibre spatial dans les portraits cézanniens de la période constructive." Etudes d'Art, no. 2 (1946), fig. 1.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 61, as Grand Portrait de Mme Cézanne en rouge, 1890-94.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 68, pl. XXIII fig. 34, as Portrait of Mme Cézanne.
Storey, Benjamin. "Retrospettiva Cézanne." Emporium 115, no. 689 (May 1952), p. 199, ill. (picture not in exhibition).
"[Aquisitions des musées du monde entier]." La Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 1129 (February 1963), p. 44, no. 164, ill., as Madame Cézanne à la chaise jaune.
Sterling, Charles, and Margaretta M. Salinger. French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. III. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1967, p. 109, ill.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 41, ill.
"The Elusive Goal." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 77, ill.
Baetjer, Katherine. European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980, p. 26, ill. p. 617.
Moffett, Charles S. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1985, pp. 194–95, ill.
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 66, ill. b/w.
Verdi, Richard. "Tübingen: Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 135, no. 1081 (April 1993), fig. 53 p. 295, as Madame Cézanne in a Red Dress.
Cahn, Isabelle. "Cézanne portraitiste." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 45, 1893-1895.
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. 655, ill. vol. 2 and p. 40, ill. col. vol. 1, as Madame Cézanne au fauteuil jaune.
Shone, Richard. "London: Cezanne." The Burlington Magazine 138, no. 1118 (May 1996), fig. 39 p. 341, as Mme Cézanne.
Feilchenfeldt, Christina. "Portraits." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 168, fig. 2, as Madame Cézanne au fauteuil jaune.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "The Path to Les Lauves: A History of Cézanne's Studios." In Atelier Cézanne, 1902–2002: Le centenaire. Aix-en-Provence: Société Paul Cézanne, 2002, fig. 24, ill. in color.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Gemälde: Formate und Themen, Echtheitsfragen." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 234, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 256; vol. 2, p. 170, as Madame Cézanne au fauteuil jaune.
Lanchner, Carolyn. "Cézanne and Giacometti: An Odd Couple." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 404, pl. 143, as Madame Cézanne in a Yellow Chair, dated 1893–95.
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, pl. 10, as Madame Cézanne au fauteuil jaune.
Shiff, Richard. "Lucky Cézanne (Cézanne Tychique)." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 60, ill., p. 404, pl. 143, as Madame Cézanne in a Yellow Chair, dated 1893–95.
Henkel, Katharina. "Jawlensky: van Gogh / Jawlensky: Cézanne." In Horizont Jawlensky: Alexej von Jawlensky im Spiegel seiner künstlerischen Begegnungen, 1900-1914. Munich: Hirmer, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 204, fig. 7, as Madame Cézanne in rotem Kleid, c. 1888-1900.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 93.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 185, ill., as Femme assise (Madame Cezanne).
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. 195, fig. 11, as Madame Cézanne in a Red Dress.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Madame Cezanne en robe rouge, 1888–90 (FWN 493)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=636 (accessed on April 18, 2024).
