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 500
Madame Cezanne aux cheveux dénoués
1885–86
Alternate titles: Frau Cézanne; Frau Cézanne mit aufgelösten Haaren; Le Caraco rayé; Madame Cézanne au corsage rayé; Madame Cézanne in a striped blouse; Portrait de Madame Cézanne; Portrait de Mme Cézanne; Portrait of Madame Cézanne; Portret van Mevrouw Cézanne
Rewald (685): 1890–92; Venturi revised: 1883–86; Venturi (527): 1883–87; Rivière: c.1874–75
Oil on canvas
24 3/8 x 20 1/8 in. (61.9 x 51.1 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 19, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1888
Provenance
Exhibition History
French Gallery, London, Great Masters of the French XIXth Century (Ingres to Picasso), February 25 - end of March 1926, no. 2, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne, 1885.
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, Modern French Art, March 11–31, 1930, no. 4, lent by P. Rosenberg.
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, Quelques oeuvres importantes de Manet à van Gogh, February–March 1932, no. 5, ill., as Portrait de Madame Cézanne, 1880.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1934.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculptures, June 1–November 1, 1934, no. 297, (dated 1880–85), as Madame Cézanne in a striped blouse, lent by Henry P. McIlhenny.
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November–December 1934, no. 13, (dated c. 1880–85), as Madame Cézanne in a striped blouse, lent by McIlhenny.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 58, as Madame Cézanne au corsage rayé, lent by Mc Ilhenny.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Masterpieces of Philadelphia Private Collections, May 20–September 15, 1947, no. 21.
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, The Henry P. McIlhenny Collection: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, June 15–July 31, 1962, no. 1, ill., as Madame Cézanne au corsage rayé, 1883-87.
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania, French Masterpieces of the 19th Century from the Henry P. McIlhenny Collection, May 1–September 18, 1977, no number, ill., p. 70.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne in Philadelphia Collections, July 19–August 21, 1983, no. 15, ill. lent by McIlhenny, Philadelphia.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, [McIlhenny Collection], 1986.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 44, ill.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 138, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 31, ill. Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).
The Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, Faces of Impressionism, Portraits from American Collections, October 10, 1999–January 30, 2000, no. 17, ill. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 25–May 7, 2000; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, May 28–July 30, 2000.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, fig. 84, p. 211, as Madame Cezanne aux cheveux dénoués.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Madame Cézanne, November 19, 2014–March 15, 2015, n.n., pl. 9, lent by Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 35, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 11.4, 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
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. opposite p. 144.
Faure, Elie. "Toujours Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 1, no. 8 (December 1920), ill. p. 267, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne.
Fontainas, André and Louis Vauxcelles. "Paul Cézanne." Histoire générale de l'art français de la Révolution à nos jours: la peinture, la gravure, le dessin. Paris: Librairie de France, 1922, ill. p. 230, 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. 129, as Frau Cézanne, 1877.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 201, listed.
Anonymous. "Paul Cézanne." Opgang: Geillustreerd weekblad voor godsdienst, wetenschap, kunst, [..] (Amsterdam) 6, no. 260 (February 6, 1926), p. 123, ill., as Portret van Mevrouw Cézanne, 1877, coll. G.F. Reber, Munich.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 72, as Frau Cézanne, c. 1885.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XLIX.
Dormoy, Marie. "La Collection Courtauld." L'Amour de l'art 10, nos. 1 et 2 (January et February 1929), ill. p. 17, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne.
Manson, James Bolivar. "The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Courtauld." Creative Art 4 (April 1929), p. 262.
Berthelot, Pierre. "Les expositions." Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 3 (March 25, 1932), p. 22, as Portrait de sa femme.
Bulliet, Clarence Joseph. The Significant Moderns and Their Pictures. New York: Covici, 1936, pl. 2.
Rydbeck, Ingrid. "Apropå Cézanne." Konstrevy (Stockholm) XII, no. 5 (1936), ill. p. 137, as Madame Cézanne au corsage rayé.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 527, ill. vol. II, as Madame Cezanne aux cheveux dénoués.
Goldwater, Robert J. "Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections." Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 138, ill.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 98, listed (analysis p. 343).
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 47, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne, 1883-87.
Hofmann, Werner. Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). Munich, Vienna, Basel: Kurt Desch, 1953, pl. 14, as Frau Cézanne mit aufgelösten Haaren, 1883-87.
Rousseau, Théodore, Jr. Paul Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1953, pl. 14.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 14 (with comments).
"The Elusive Goal." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 76, ill.
Rishel, Joseph J. The Henry P. McIlhenny Collection: An Illustrated History. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1987, p. 42, ill.
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. 685, ill. vol. 2, as Madame Cezanne aux cheveux dénoués.
Kropmanns, Peter, and Uwe Fleckner. "Von kontinentaler Bedeutung: Gottlieb Friedrich Reber und seine Sammlungen." In Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: französische Kunst in deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, edited by Andrea Pophanken and Felix Billeter. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001, listed p. 387.
Elderfield, John. "Picasso's Extreme Cézanne." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 211, fig. 8.4, as Portrait of Madame Cézanne.
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, pl. 4, as Madame Cezanne aux cheveux dénoués.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 89.
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. 196, fig. 13, as Portrait of Madame Cézanne.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Madame Cezanne aux cheveux dénoués, 1885–86 (FWN 500)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=663 (accessed on April 19, 2024).
