Madame Cezanne in a Yellow Chair
Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906)1888–90
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
This portrait is one in a series of four Paul Cezanne made of his wife, Emélie-Hortense Fiquet, whom he met when she worked as an artist’s model. They had a son together in 1872 and married in 1886. Technical examination suggests that Cezanne traced this image, the second in the series, from the first portrait, which he made from life. In contrast to her masklike expression, Hortense’s hands are agitated, contorted by crisscrossing brushstrokes and the dark-blue outlines Cezanne used to sketch out the forms, which remain visible in the final work.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 80.9 × 64.9 cm (31 13/16 × 25 9/16 in.)
Museum record · 2 owners · 26 exhibitions
Provenance
- Ambroise Vollard, Paris, possibly by 1904; sold to Bernheim-Jeune & Cie, Paris on February 22, 1907; bought by Théodore Duret, Paris on April 16, 1907; sold to Bernheim-Jeune & Cie, Paris, ca. April 1907; sold to Deusser, Düsseldorf on October 15, 1909.
- Paul Rosenberg, Paris, by 1926; sold to Alphonse Kann, St. Germain-en-Laye and London, on October 31, 1929; sold by him to Paul Rosenberg & Co, New York, in October 1947; sold to the Art Institute on April 22, 1948.
Exhibitions
- Possibly Paris, Galerie Vollard, Cézanne, 1895, no cat..
- Moscow, La Toison d’Or, 1908.
- Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Sonderbund Ausstellung, May-June 1909, cat 86.
- London, French Gallery, Great Masters of the French XIXth Century, 1926.
- New York, Paul Rosenberg & Co., Inc. Wildenstein Galleries, Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Paul Cézanne, 1839-1906, January 1928.
- Paris, Paul Rosenberg.
- Exposition d’Oeuvres Importantes de Grands Maîtres du XIXe siecle, May 18-June 27, 1931.
- Paris, Musée de L’Orangerie, Cézanne, 1936.
- Paris, Paul Rosenberg, Exposition Cézanne (1839 – 1906), organisée à l’occasion de son centenaire, February 21-April 1, 1939.
- London, Rosenberg & Helft, Exhibition Cézanne, April 19-May 20, 1939.
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1950, no cat. no. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings: A Loan Exhibition, February 7-March 16, 1952, traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 4-May 18, 1952.
- Paul Rosenberg and Co., Masterpieces Recalled, a Loan Exhibition of 19th and 20th Century French Paintings fro the Benefit of the League of Emotionally Disturbed Children, February 6-March 2, 1957.
- Washington, D. C., The Phillips Collection, Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27-March 28, 1971, traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, April 17-May 16, 1971 and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, June 1-July 3, 1971.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, Modern Masterpieces: Manet to Matisse, August 4-September 1, 1975, traveled to Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wale, April 10-May 11, 1975 and Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, May 28-June 22, 1975.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, European Portraits 1600-1900 in The Art Institute of Chicago, July 8-September 11, 1978.
- Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from The Art Institute of Chicago, October 18-December 17, 1986, traveled to Fukuoka Art Museum, January 5-February 2, 1986 and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, March 4-April 13, 1986.
- Leningrad, Hermitage Museum, Ot Delakrua do Matissa: shedevry frantsuzskoĭ zhivopici XIX-nachala XX veka, iz Muieia Metropoliten v Niu-Ĭorke i Khudozhestvennogo Instituta v Chikago, March 15-May 19, 1988, pl 36; Moscow, Pushkin Museum, June 10-July 30, 1988.
- Kunsthalle Tübingen, Cézanne: Gemälde, January 16-May 7, 1993.
- Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Cézanne i blickpunkten, October 17, 1997-January 11, 1998.
- St. Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde of the XX century, August 8-September 24, 1998; Moscow, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, October 5-November 15, 1998.
- New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cézanne to Picasso Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, September 13, 2006-January 7, 2007; Art Institute of Chicago, February 17-May 13, 2007; Paris, Musée d’Orsay, June 18-Spetember 16, 2007.
- Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008.
- Paris, Musée Luxembourg, Cezanne et Paris, October 10, 2011-February 27, 2012.
- New York, NY, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Portraits of Madame Cézanne, November 17, 2014–March 15, 2015 Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Cézanne Portraits, June 13, 2017 - September 24, 2017; London, National Portrait Gallery, October 26, 2017 - February 11, 2018, traveled to Washington D.C., National Gallery, March 25 - July 1, 2018.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Cezanne, May 15-Se, 2022; London, Tate, Oct. 5, 2022-Mar. 12, 2023.
- Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Modigliani Moderne Blicke, Nov. 24, 2023 - Mar. 17, 2024; Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Apr. 27-Aug. 18, 2024.
