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 509
Madame Cezanne dans la serre
1891–92
Alternate titles: A Woman seated; Bildnis seiner Frau; Bildnis seiner Gattin; Frau Cézanne; Frau Cézanne im Gewächshaus; Frau Cézanne im Treibhaus; Freilichtbildnis: Madame Cézanne; La Dame en noir; Madame Cézanne in the Conservatory; Portrait de Madame Cézanne; Portrait de Mme Cezanne; Portrait de Mme Cézanne dans la serre
Rewald (703): 1891–92; Venturi revised: c.1893; Venturi (569): c.1890; Rivière: 1891; Vollard: 1891; Other: van Buren: 1886–87
Oil on canvas
36 1/4 x 28 3/4 in. (92.1 x 73 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 20, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1891
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895.
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Rétrospective d'oeuvres de Cézanne, October 1–22, 1907, no. 25, as La Dame en noir, lent by Cézanne fils.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XII. Jahrgang, III. Ausstellung, November 17–December 12, 1909, no. 17, as Freilichtbildnis: Madame Cézanne, lent by Vollard.
Grafton Galleries, London, Manet and the Post-Impressionists, November 8, 1910–January 15, 1911, no. 11, as Portrait de Madame Cézanne, lent by Vollard.
Galerie Miethke, Dorotheergasse 11, Vienna, Kollektiv-Ausstellung Max Kurzweil und Carl Moll, March 4–30, 1911, as Mdme Cézanne dans son jardin, 35,000 Fr net.
Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, 1926, no. 15, tentative identification.
Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow, [Portrait in French art of the late XIX - early XX century], Winter 1929/30.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculptures, June 1–November 1, 1934, no. 296, pl. L (dated 1891), as Madame Cézanne in the Conservatory, lent by anon.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Modern Works of Art: 5th Anniversary Exhibition, November 19, 1934–January 20, 1935, no. 5, ill.
The Century Club, New York, French Masterpieces of the 19th Century, 1936, no. 17, ill.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, June 26–October 4, 1936, no. 254, pl. 65.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 27, ill. lent by Stephen Clark.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Art in Our Time: 10th Anniversary Exhibition, May 10–September 10, 1939, no. 60.
New York World's Fair, New York, Masterpieces of Art, May–October 1940, no. 341, as Madame Cezanne dans la serre, lent by Clark.
Paul Rosenberg, New York, A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Cézanne (1839-1906) for the Benefit of Fighting France, November 19–December 19, 1942, no. 15, ill. lent by Clark.
Century Association, New York, Paintings from the Stephen C. Clark Collection, June 6–September 28, 1946.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 48, ill., frontispiece, lent by Clark.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, To Honor Henry McBride, November 29–December 17, 1949, no. 2.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 68, on cover, lent by S.C. Clark. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, A Collector's Taste: Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Clark, January 12–30, 1954, no. 12, ill.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections, May 31–September 7, 1955, no number, lent by Clark.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1958, no. 16, as Madame Cézanne in the Conservatory, lent by Stephen C. Clark.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1959, no. 9, lent by Stephen C. Clark.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1960, no. 9, lent by Stephen C. Clark.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture Collected by Yale Alumni, May 19–June 26, 1960, no. 76.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Treasures from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 25–June 4, 1989, no. 92, ill.
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Morozov and Shchukin: The Russian Collectors, June 25–October 31, 1993, no. 34. Traveled to: Pushkin Museum, Moscow, November 30, 1993–January 30, 1994; Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, February 16–April 16, 1994.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Cézanne i blickpunkten, October 17, 1997–January 11, 1998, no. 7, ill., pp. 42–43 (dated 1891–92).
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 37, ill. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
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. 78, ill.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Madame Cézanne, November 19, 2014–March 15, 2015, n.n., pl. 28, lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Unfinished: Thoughts left visible, March 18–September 4, 2016, p. 163, pl. 121, text p. 280.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Public Parks, Private Gardens: Paris to Provence, March 12–July 29, 2018, pp. 123-24, fig. 120.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 222, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Published References
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Paul Cézanne." In Impressionisten: Guys, Manet, van Gogh, Pissarro, Cézanne. Munich and Leipzig: R. Piper & Co., 1907, ill. p. 201, c. 1885, as Bildnis.
Makovsky, Serguei. "[French artists in I. Morosov's collection, Moscow]." Apollon (St. Petersburg) 3, nos. 3–4 (March 1912), listed p. 23, ill. between pp. 28, 29, as Portrait de Mme Cezanne.
Royère, Jean. "Paul Cézanne, Erinnerungen." Kunst und Künstler 10, no. 10 (1912), ill. p. 479, as Bildnis seiner Frau.
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1913, pl. 69, as Bildnis seiner Gattin.
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 24, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne dans la serre.
Fry, Roger. "'Paul Cézanne' by Ambroise Vollard: Paris, 1915, A Review." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 31, no. 173 (August 1917), pl. III.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. opposite p. 192.
Deri, Max. Die Malerei im XIX. Jahrhundert: entwicklungsgeschichtliche Darstellung auf psychologischer Grundlage. Berlin: Paul Cassirer, 1919, pp. 201–03, pl. 46.
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Munich: Kurt Wolfe Verlag, 1921, ill. opp. p. 160, as Frau Cézanne, dated 1891.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 235.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 218, listed.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Cézanne." In Entwicklungsgeschichte der modernen Kunst vol. 3. Munich: R. Piper & Co., [1924] (copyright 1915), pl. 497, as Frau Cézanne im Gewächshaus, c. 1891.
Ternovietz, Boris Nikolaevich. "Le Musée d'Art moderne de Moscou (Anciennes collections Stchoukine et Morosoff)." L'Amour de l'art 6, no. 12 (December 1925), p. 470, p. 473, ill., as Portrait de Mme Cézanne dans la serre, 1891.
Ettinger, Paul. "Die modernen Franzosen in den Kunstsammlungen Moskaus." Der Cicerone 18, no. 4 (1926), p. 111, ill. p. 114.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 112, as Frau Cézanne im Gewächshaus, 1891.
Zervos, Christian. "Idéalisme et naturalisme dans la peinture moderne, II: Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh." Cahiers d'Art, no. 10 (1927), p. 333, ill.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XCIII.
Scheffler, Karl. Europäische Kunst im 19. Jahrhundert. Berlin: B. Cassirer, 1927, p. 95.
Catalogue du Musée d'art occidental moderne. Moscow: Museum of Modern Western Art, 1928, no. 560, ill.
Réau, Louis. "III: Musée d'art occidental moderne à Moscou." In Catalogue de l'art français dans les musées russes. Paris: A. Colin, 1929, no. 742.
Ternovietz, Boris. "Lettre de l'U.R.S.S." Formes: revue internationale des arts plastiques, no. 5 (Mai 1930), p. 22, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne dans la serre.
Becker, John. "The Museum of Modern Western Painting in Moscow—Part I." Creative Art 10 (March 1932), p. 195, ill.
"The Century of Progress Exhibition of Art for 1934." Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 28, no. 4 (April-May 1934), ill. p. 52, as Madame Cézanne in the Conservatory.
Rich, Daniel C. "The Century of Progress Art Exhibition for 1934." Studio (November 1934), p. 270, ill.
Olmenhove, van den. "Kunst: Paul Cézanne." Verf en kunst: maandblad van P. A. Regnault's verf-, inkt- en blikfabrieken (Surabaya) 4, no.10, no.11, no.12 (1935), ill. p. 7 (no.12), as Portrait de Mme Cézanne dans la serre, 1891.
Venturi, Lionello. "Paul Cézanne." L'Arte 6, nos. 4 and 5 (July 1935), p. 397, fig. 19.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 569, ill. vol. II, as Madame Cezanne dans la serre.
Francastel, Pierre. L'impressionnisme: Les origines de la peinture moderne de Monet à Gauguin. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1937, fig. 16, as Madame Cezanne dans la serre, dated 1890; private collection.
Zervos, Christian. Histoire de l'art contemporain. Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'art, 1938, p. 35, ill.
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Cézanne: Intimate Exhibition." Art News 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), ill. on cover and p. 15.
"Paul Cézanne: Madame Cézanne in the Conservatory." ARTNews 38, no. 34 (September, 1940), p. 39, ill. in color.
"Important Cézanne Survey Staged as Benefit for Fighting French." Art Digest 17, no. 5 (December 1, 1942), p. 5, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. "Cézanne: Fighter for Freedom." Art News 41, no. 13 (November 15, 1942), p. 19, ill.
Jewell, Edward Alden. French Impressionists and Their Contemporaries. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944, p. 135, ill.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1946, p. 413, ill.
"L'Art moderne français dans…le Musée d'Art Moderne Occidentale." Cahiers d'Art (1950), no. 16, listed p. 338, as Portrait de Mme Cézanne dans la serre, 1891.
Venturi, Lionello. Impressionists and Symbolists: Manet, Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Scribner, 1950, fig. 134.
Loran, Erle. "Cézanne in 1952." Quarterly (Art Institute of Chicago) 46, no. 1 (February 1, 1952), cover illustration.
Sargent, Winthrop. "Cézanne: The Great Paintings of a Frustrated Recluse Changed the Whole Course of Modern Art." Life 32, no. 8 (February 25, 1952), p. 76, ill.
Hofmann, Werner. Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). Munich, Vienna, Basel: Kurt Desch, 1953, pl. 21, as Frau Cézanne im Treibhaus, c. 1890.
Rousseau, Théodore, Jr. Paul Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1953, pl. 21.
Barr, Jr., Alfred H. "Paintings from Private Collections." Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art 22, no. 4 (Summer 1955), p. 11, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Four Steps toward Modern Art: Giorgione, Caravaggio, Manet, Cézanne. New York: Columbia University Press, 1956, fig. 29.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 561, ill.
Buren, Anne H. van. "Madame Cézanne's Fashions and the Dates of Her Portraits." Art Quarterly 29, no. 2 (1966), fig. 12.
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. 101, ill.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 105.
Salinger, Margaretta. "Windows Open to Nature." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 27, no. 1 (Summer 1968), ill.
Elsen, Albert E. Purposes of Art: An Introduction to the History and Appreciation of Art. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972, p. 363, ill.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 27 (with comments).
Dunstan, Bernard. "Notes on Painting from the Model." American Artist 39, no. 398 (September, 1975), ill. p. 37, as Madame Cézanne in the Conservatory.
Geist, Sidney. "The Secret Life of Paul Cézanne." Art International 19, no. 9 (November 20, 1975), p. 14, ill.
Dijkstra, Bram, ed. A Recognizable Image: William Carlos WIlliams on Art and Artists. New York: New Directions, 1978, p. 205, 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. 615.
Hibbard, Howard. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Harper & Row, 1980, fig. 789.
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 37.
Ely, Bruno. "Cézanne, L'Ecole de dessin et le Musée d'Aix." In Cézanne au Musée d'Aix. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1984. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 195.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. "Catalogue des oeuvres de Cézanne conservées au musée Granet d'Aix-en-Provence." In Cézanne au Musée d'Aix. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1984, ill. p. 221.
Moffett, Charles S. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1985, pp. 182–83, ill.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 153, ill. in color.
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 122, ill. in color.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 159, ill.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 272, fig. 2.
Flam, Jack. "Rethinking Modernism." Apollo (London) 142, no. 404 (October 1995), fig. 1 p. 5, as Madame Cézanne in the Conservatory.
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. 703, ill. vol. 2, as Madame Cezanne dans la serre.
Benesch, Evelyn. "From the Incomplete to the Unfinished: Realisation in the Work of Paul Cézanne." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 53, fig. 18, as Madame Cezanne dans la serre.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 49, fig. 1.37, as Madame Cezanne dans la serre.
Natter, Tobias. Die Galerie Miethke: Eine Kunsthandlung im Zentrum der Moderne. Vienna: Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Wien, 2003. Exhibition catalogue, p. 157, ill. listed erroneously as being in Vienna 1912 exhibition.
Coutagne, Denis. "The Jas de Bouffan Landscapes." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanné. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 124, ill. in color.
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. 179, ill.
Kropmanns, Peter. Cézanne: Eine Biographie. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2006, ill. between pp. 116 and 117.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 261; vol. 2, p. 172, as Madame Cezanne dans la serre.
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 95, fig. 64.
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. 394, fig. 14.14, as Madame Cézanne in the Conservatory, dated 1891.
Sidlauskas, Susan. Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, pl. 1, as Madame Cezanne dans la serre.
Burnstock, Aviva, Charlotte Hale, Caroline Campbell, and Gabriella Macaro. "Cézanne's Development of the Card Players." In Cézanne's Card Players. London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2010. Exhibition catalogue, p. 40, fig. 14.
Machotka, Pavel. "I ritratti di Cézanne: il volto umano della grande pitura." In Cézanne: les ateliers du midi. Milan: Skira, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 89, fig. 56.
Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne abstraction faite. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2011, p. 194, fig. 134.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 17, pl. 5.
Duverget, Chantal. "Madame Cézanne, de Franche-Comté." In Courbet/Cézanne: La vérité en peinture. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 122, fig. 3.
Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Gli artisti italiani e Cézanne." In Cézanne et gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 63, fig. 80.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Kollektion Paul Cézanne: 17. November bis 12. Dezember 1909." Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1908-1910. vol. 4, "Ganz eigenartige neue Werte". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2013, p. 301, ill.
Nagaï, Takanori. "Cézanne and Jas de Bouffan." In Le "basho" dans l'art moderne français. Tokyo: Sangensha, 2016, p. 107, ill.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 90.
Fontanella, Megan et al. Thannhauser Collection: French Modernism at the Guggenheim. New York: Guggenheim Museum Publication, 2018, p. 64, fig. 6.3, as Madame Cézanne in the Conservatory.
Cezanne, Jas de Bouffan: art et histoire. Under the scientific direction of Denis Coutagne and François Chédeville. Lyon; Aix-en-Provence: Fage édition; Société Paul Cezanne, 2019, fig. 205 p. 213.
Baldassari, Anne, ed. La collection Morozov: icônes de l'art moderne. Paris: Editions Gallimard and Fondation Louis Vuitton, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, p. 490 (listed and illustrated).
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. 188, fig. 2, as Madame Cézanne in the Conservatory.
Record last updated September 10, 2024. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Madame Cezanne dans la serre, 1891–92 (FWN 509)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=681 (accessed on November 25, 2024).
