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Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired directly from the artist) Josse and Gaston Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired on 26 October 1906 and until at least 1919) (possibly) Gottleib Friedrich Reber, Munich (acquired by 1933) Georges Renand, Paris (acquired by 1936 and until at least 1952) Sam Salz, New York Leigh B. and Mary Lasker Block, Chicago (acquired by 1967) E.V. Thaw & Co., New York Acquired in 1983 from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

(possibly) Paris, 6 rue Peletier, 3e exposition de peinture Impressionniste ,1877, no. 28 (titled Figure de femme; Étude d'après nature ) Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Portraits Français , 1945, no. 10 or 11 Baden-Baden, Kurhaus; Berlin Stadtschloss; Mainz, Kunsthalle and Dusseldorf, Kunstmuseum, La peinture française moderne: de l'impressionnisme à nos jours 1946, no. 54 (possibly) Vienna, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Classiques de la peinture française moderne—Meister der modernen französischen Kunst , 1947, no. 28 (possibly) Munich Haus der Kunst and Berliner Schloss, Moderne französische Malerei von den Impressionisten bis zur Gegenwart, 1947, no. 28, p. 23 Strasbourg, Musée des Beaux-Arts; Besançon, Musée des Beaux-Arts et Archéologie and Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Les Origines de l’art contemporain: La Peinture française de Manet à Bonnard, 1947-48, no. 50 (dated 1872-77) Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, La Femme, 1800-1930 , 1948, no. 14 (dated 1872-77) Art Institute of Chicago and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, 1952, no. 21, p. 28 (dated 1872-77) Aix-en-Provence, Musée Granet; Nice, Musée Masséna and Grenoble, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, 1953, no. 5 (dated 1872-77) Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 100 European Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block , 1967-68, no. 8, illustrated (dated circa 1876); no. 10 (Boston) Aarau, Aargauer Kunsthaus; Wuppertal, Von de Heydt-Museum; Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister and Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, El Greco bis Mondrian , 1996, n.n, p.126; p.127, illustrated in color Vienna, Kunstforum and Kunsthaus Zürich, Cézanne: Finished–Unfinished , 2000, no. 15, p. 158; p. 159, illustrated in color; p. 402 New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Madame Cézanne, 2014-15, pl. 8, p. 28, illustrated in color; p. 195, illustrated in color

Literature

Bernadille,"Chronique parisienne: L'Exposition des impressionnistes," Le Français , 13 April 1877, p. 2 Shirakaba , vol. 3, no. 9, September 1912, p. 48, illustrated Bernheim-Jeune, ed., L'Art moderne et quelques aspects de l'art d'autrefois: cent-soixante-treize planches d'après la collection privée de MM. J. & G. Bernheim-Jeune , vol. I, Paris, 1919, pl. 16, illustrated (titled Portrait de Madame Paul Cézanne ) Élie Faure, Paul Cézanne , Paris, 1923, pl. 10, illustrated (titled Étude ) Georges Rivière, Le Maître Paul Cézanne , Paris, 1923, p. 95, illustrated; p. 241 (titled Portrait de Mme Cézanne dans un fauteuil rouge ) Christian Zervos, "Idéalisme et naturalisme dans la peinture moderne, II.—Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh," Cahiers d'Art , vol. 2, no. 10, 1927, p. 329, illustrated Georges Rivière, Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire , Paris, 1933; 1942, rev., n.p., illustrated (titled Portrait de Madame Cézanne dans un fauteuil rouge ) Lionello Venturi, Cézanne son art—son oeuvre , Paris, 1936, no. 228, vol. I, p. 115; vol. II, pl. 62, illustrated (dated 1872-77) Pierre Auzas, Peintures de Cézanne , Paris, 1946, pl. III, illustrated in color (dated 1872-77) Gustav Leuteritz, "Französische Malerei in Berlin," Bildende Kunst: Zeitschrift für Malerei, Graphik, Plastik und Architektur , vol. I, Berlin, 1947, p. 17, illustrated André Leclerc, Cézanne, 1948, p. 5, illustrated (titled Madame Cézanne in the Red Armchair ) Bernard Dorival, Cézanne , Paris, 1948, pl. 46, illustrated in color; p. 150 and illustrated in color on the cover (titled Portrait de Madame Cézanne, tête basse ) Jean de Beucken, Un portrait de Cézanne , Paris, 1955, p. 144 (titled Figure de Femme ) Liliane Brion-Guérry, Cézanne et l'expression de l'espace, Paris, 1966, no. 20, p. 80, illustrated; pp. 86 and 276 (titled Portrait de Madame Cézanne à la robe rayée ) “Bibliographie,” Jardin des Arts, no. 146, January 1967, p. 70, illustrated Anne H. van Buren, "Madame Cézanne's Fashions and the Dates of her Portraits," The Art Quarterly , vol. 29, no. 2, 1966, p. 124, note 5 Alfonso Gatto and Sandra Orienti, L’Opera completa di Cézanne , Milan, 1970, no. 229, p. 96; p. 97, illustrated (titled La Signora Cézanne a capo chino and dated 1872-77) Gilles Plazy, Cézanne, Paris, 1991, no. 17 Exh. Cat., Paris, Grand Palais; London, Tate Gallery and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Cézanne, 1995-96, fig. 1, p. 247, illustrated (dated 1872-77) John Rewald, The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1996, no. 387, vol. I, p. 255; vol. II, no. pl. 120, illustrated Exh. Cat., Rome, Complesso del Vittoriano, Cézanne et gli artisti italiani del '900, 2013, p. 73, fig. 97, illustrated Exh. Cat., Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Cézanne: Metamorphoses, 2017-18, fig. 2, p. 257, illustrated in color Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Floriane Dauberville, Paul Cézanne chez Bernheim-Jeune , vol. I, Paris, 2020, p. 7, illustrated (in photograph of the hôtel particulier of Josse and Gaston Bernheim Jeune); p. 143 (in reproduction of Exh. Cat., Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, La Femme, 1800-1930 , 1948) Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash, Portrait de madame Cezanne , c. 1877, (FWN 441), The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné , https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=383 (accessed on 25 February 2025)

Catalog summary

Modern Perspectives: The Collection of Rolf & Margit Weinberg Paul Cézanne (1839 - 1906) Portrait de Madame Cézanne oil on canvas 10 ½ by 12 ¾ in.   26.5 by 32.3 cm. Executed circa 1877. Provenance Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired directly from the artist) Josse and Gaston Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired on 26 October 1906 and until at least 1919) (possibly) Gottleib Friedrich Reber, Munich (acquired by 1933) Georges Renand, Paris (acquired by 1936 and until at least 1952) Sam Salz, New York Leigh B. and Mary Lasker Block, Chicago (acquired by 1967) E.V. Thaw & Co., New York Acquired in 1983 from the above by the present owner Exhibited (possibly) Paris, 6 rue Peletier, 3e exposition de peinture Impressionniste ,1877, no. 28 (titled Figure de femme; Étude d'après nature ) Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Portraits Français , 1945, no. 10 or 11 Baden-Baden, Kurhaus; Berlin Stadtschloss; Mainz, Kunsthalle and Dusseldorf, Kunstmuseum, La peinture française moderne: de l'impressionnisme à nos jours 1946, no. 54 (possibly) Vienna, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Classiques de la peinture française moderne—Meister der modernen französischen Kunst , 1947, no. 28 (possibly) Munich Haus der Kunst and Berliner Schloss, Moderne französische Malerei von den Impressionisten bis zur Gegenwart, 1947, no. 28, p. 23 Strasbourg, Musée des Beaux-Arts; Besançon, Musée des Beaux-Arts et Archéologie and Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Les Origines de l’art contemporain: La Peinture française de Manet à Bonnard, 1947-48, no. 50 (dated 1872-77) Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, La Femme, 1800-1930 , 1948, no. 14 (dated 1872-77) Art Institute of Chicago and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, 1952, no. 21, p. 28 (dated 1872-77) Aix-en-Provence, Musée Granet; Nice, Musée Masséna and Grenoble, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, 1953, no. 5 (dated 1872-77) Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 100 European Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block , 1967-68, no. 8, illustrated (dated circa 1876); no. 10 (Boston) Aarau, Aargauer Kunsthaus; Wuppertal, Von de Heydt-Museum; Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister and Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, El Greco bis Mondrian , 1996, n.n, p.126; p.127, illustrated in color Vienna, Kunstforum and Kunsthaus Zürich, Cézanne: Finished–Unfinished , 2000, no. 15, p. 158; p. 159, illustrated in color; p. 402 New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Madame Cézanne, 2014-15, pl. 8, p. 28, illustrated in color; p. 195, illustrated in color Literature Bernadille,"Chronique parisienne: L'Exposition des impressionnistes," Le Français , 13 April 1877, p. 2 Shirakaba , vol. 3, no. 9, September 1912, p. 48, illustrated Bernheim-Jeune, ed., L'Art moderne et quelques aspects de l'art d'autrefois: cent-soixante-treize planches d'après la collection privée de MM. J. & G. Bernheim-Jeune , vol. I, Paris, 1919, pl. 16, illustrated (titled Portrait de Madame Paul Cézanne ) Élie Faure, Paul Cézanne , Paris, 1923, pl. 10, illustrated (titled Étude ) Georges Rivière, Le Maître Paul Cézanne , Paris, 1923, p. 95, illustrated; p. 241 (titled Portrait de Mme Cézanne dans un fauteuil rouge ) Christian Zervos, "Idéalisme et naturalisme dans la peinture moderne, II.—Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh," Cahiers d'Art , vol. 2, no. 10, 1927, p. 329, illustrated Georges Rivière, Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire , Paris, 1933; 1942, rev., n.p., illustrated (titled Portrait de Madame Cézanne dans un fauteuil rouge ) Lionello Venturi, Cézanne son art—son oeuvre , Paris, 1936, no. 228, vol. I, p. 115; vol. II, pl. 62, illustrated (dated 1872-77) Pierre Auzas, Peintures de Cézanne , Paris, 1946, pl. III, illustrated in color (dated 1872-77) Gustav Leuteritz, "Französische Malerei in Berlin," Bildende Kunst: Zeitschrift für Malerei, Graphik, Plastik und Architektur , vol. I, Berlin, 1947, p. 17, illustrated André Leclerc, Cézanne, 1948, p. 5, illustrated (titled Madame Cézanne in the Red Armchair ) Bernard Dorival, Cézanne , Paris, 1948, pl. 46, illustrated in color; p. 150 and illustrated in color on the cover (titled Portrait de Madame Cézanne, tête basse ) Jean de Beucken, Un portrait de Cézanne , Paris, 1955, p. 144 (titled Figure de Femme ) Liliane Brion-Guérry, Cézanne et l'expression de l'espace, Paris, 1966, no. 20, p. 80, illustrated; pp. 86 and 276 (titled Portrait de Madame Cézanne à la robe rayée ) “Bibliographie,” Jardin des Arts, no. 146, January 1967, p. 70, illustrated Anne H. van Buren, "Madame Cézanne's Fashions and the Dates of her Portraits," The Art Quarterly , vol. 29, no. 2, 1966, p. 124, note 5 Alfonso Gatto and Sandra Orienti, L’Opera completa di Cézanne , Milan, 1970, no. 229, p. 96; p. 97, illustrated (titled La Signora Cézanne a capo chino and dated 1872-77) Gilles Plazy, Cézanne, Paris, 1991, no. 17 Exh. Cat., Paris, Grand Palais; London, Tate Gallery and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Cézanne, 1995-96, fig. 1, p. 247, illustrated (dated 1872-77) John Rewald, The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1996, no. 387, vol. I, p. 255; vol. II, no. pl. 120, illustrated Exh. Cat., Rome, Complesso del Vittoriano, Cézanne et gli artisti italiani del '900, 2013, p. 73, fig. 97, illustrated Exh. Cat., Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Cézanne: Metamorphoses, 2017-18, fig. 2, p. 257, illustrated in color Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Floriane Dauberville, Paul Cézanne chez Bernheim-Jeune , vol. I, Paris, 2020, p. 7, illustrated (in photograph of the hôtel particulier of Josse and Gaston Bernheim Jeune); p. 143 (in reproduction of Exh. Cat., Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, La Femme, 1800-1930 , 1948) Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash, Portrait de madame Cezanne , c. 1877, (FWN 441), The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné , https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=383 (accessed on 25 February 2025)