Catalogue entry

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

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ittleson Purchase Fund)

Keywords

People
Family:
- Madame Cezanne / Hortense Fiquet »
Interiors
Wall decoration:
- chair rail / dado »
Interiors
Furnishings:
- chair / chaise »
- curtain / rideau »
- fabric / blue brown foliage »
- fireplace / cheminée »
- fireplace tongs / pince de feu »
- mirror / miroir »

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris, and Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris

Auguste Pellerin, Paris (July 7, 1904);

Jean-Victor Pellerin, Paris

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1962)

Exhibition History

1907a Paris

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.

1936c Paris

Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 76, as Grand Portrait de Mme Cézanne en rouge, lent by Pellerin.

1993 Tübingen

Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 41, ill.

1995–96 Paris and traveling

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.

2007 Houston

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.

2007b Berlin

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.

2014b Madrid

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.

2014–15b New York

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.

2017 Paris

Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 42, ill. shown in Paris and Washington only.

2017–18 Paris and traveling

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.

2023 London

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 1907

Nordau, Max. "Der Herbstsalon: II." Neue Freie Presse. Morgenblatt (Vienna), October 19, 1907, p. 3, as Frauenstudie.

Meier-Graefe 1918a

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 1919

Coquiot, Gustave. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Ollendorf, 1919, ill. p. 248 (opposite), as Portrait de Mme Cézanne.

Maestri Moderni 1920

Maestri Moderni. I, Cézanne. Rome: La Voce, 1920, ill.

Zeisho 1921

Zeisho, Atzouji. Paul Cézanne. Tokyo: Rakuyodo, Taisho, 1921, fig. 31.

Meier-Graefe 1922

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 1924

Denis, Maurice. "Le dessin de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 5, no. 2 (February 1924), ill. p. 39, as Portrait, (Coll. Pellerin).

Fry 1926

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 1927a

Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, p. 68, fig. 34, pl. XXIII.

Meier-Graefe 1927a

Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. LXVIII.

Fry 1929

Fry, Roger. "Cézannes Udvikling." Samleren 6 (July, August, September 1929), p. 131, ill.

Rivière 1933

Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 111, ill.

Mack 1935

Mack, Gerstle. Paul Cézanne. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935, fig. 17.

Benesch 1936

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 1936

Flament, Albert. "Tableaux de Paris: Peinture." La Revue de Paris (Paris) (September 1936), p. 949, as Portrait de madame Cézanne.

Larguier 1936

Larguier, Léo. Paul Cézanne ou le drame de la peinture. Paris: Denoël et Steele, 1936, p. 17, ill.

Raynal 1936

Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. LXX p. 102.

Rewald 1936a

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 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 570, ill. vol. II, as Madame Cézanne au fauteuil jaune.

Huyghe 1936d

Huyghe, René. Cézanne. Paris: Plon, Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1936, pl. 28.

Novotny 1937

Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 63.

Slavíček 1937

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 and de Mazia 1939

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).

Cogniat 1939a

Cogniat, Raymond. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1939, pl. 87.

Rivière 1942

Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 91, ill.

Guerry 1946

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 1947

Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 61, as Grand Portrait de Mme Cézanne en rouge, 1890-94.

Guerry 1950

Guerry, Liliane. Cézanne et l'expression de l'espace. Paris: Flammarion, 1950, fig. 20.

Fry 1952

Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 68, pl. XXIII fig. 34, as Portrait of Mme Cézanne.

Storey 1952

Storey, Benjamin. "Retrospettiva Cézanne." Emporium 115, no. 689 (May 1952), p. 199, ill. (picture not in exhibition).

Beucken 1955

Beucken, Jean de. Un portrait de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, [1955], pp. 225-26.

Beucken 1962

Beucken, Jean de. Cézanne. New York: Viking Press, 1962, p. 93, ill.

Gazette des beaux-arts 1963

"[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.

Guerry 1966

Guerry, Liliane. Cézanne et l'expression de l'espace. Paris: Albin-Michel, 1966, pl. 44.

Sterling and Salinger 1967

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.

Ramuz 1968

Ramuz, Charles Ferdinand. Cézanne Formes. Lausanne: International Art Book, 1968, pl. 19.

Ikegami 1969

Ikegami, Chuji. Cézanne. Tokyo: Shueisha, 1969, fig. 25.

Schapiro 1973

Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 41, ill.

Brion-Guerry 1977

"The Elusive Goal." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 77, ill.

Baetjer 1980

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 1985

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 and Takumi 1986

Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 66, ill. b/w.

Kendall 1988

Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 171, ill.

Naubert-Riser 1992

Naubert-Riser, Constance. Cézanne. London: Studio Editions, 1994, p. 97.

Verdi 1993a

Verdi, Richard. "Tübingen: Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 135, no. 1081 (April 1993), fig. 53 p. 295, as Madame Cézanne in a Red Dress.

Cahn 1995b

Cahn, Isabelle. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 1995, p. 81, ill.

Cahn 1995c

Cahn, Isabelle. "Cézanne portraitiste." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 45, 1893-1895.

Rewald 1996

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 1996

Shone, Richard. "London: Cezanne." The Burlington Magazine 138, no. 1118 (May 1996), fig. 39 p. 341, as Mme Cézanne.

Feilchenfeldt, C. 2000a

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 2002

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 2005e

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 2008

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 2009

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 2009

Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, pl. 10, as Madame Cézanne au fauteuil jaune.

Shiff 2009a

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 2014

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 2018

Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 93.

Dauberville 2020

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, Ireson and Patry 2021

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.

Related work

Record last updated May 17, 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 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 30, 2024).