Paul Cézanne

Portrait of a Woman (Portrait de femme)

c. 1899. Oil on canvas

Location

On View: Room 6, West Wall

Artist

Paul Cézanne (French, 1839 - 1906)

Year

c. 1899

Medium

Oil on canvas

Accession Number

BF164

Dimensions

Overall: 36 3/4 x 28 7/8 in. (93.3 x 73.3 cm)

Viewing Status

Currently on view

Public Domain

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Cézanne painted many portraits of working-class people in Provence. Here he renders his subject with monumentality and dignity, reflecting his respect for rural Provençal types. Cézanne sets off the woman's remarkably vivid red-striped dress with patches of green and blue on the wall. The roundness and solidity of her form rhyme with the cauldron on the floor behind her, suggesting a parallel between the functional object and her steadfast presence.

Bibliography

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Barnes, Albert C. and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Henri-Matisse. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1933, 181, cat. data no. 411.

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De Mazia, Violette. "Transferred Values: Part III." Vistas 1, no. 2 (Autumn-Winter 1979-1980): 6, 9, pl. 2.

Dolkart, Judith F., Martha Lucy, and Derek Gillman. The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2012: 12, 13.

Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. Philadelphia: The Barnes Foundation, 2021, (cat. 57), 13-14, 24, 37, 285-87.

Elderfield, John, et al. Cézanne Portraits. London: National Portrait Gallery, 2017, 165-67, fig. 64.

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Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996, no. 853.

Sefarbi, Harry. "Henri Rousseau: from 'primitive' to Primitive." Vistas 4, no. 1 (1988): 21 n, pl. 19.

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Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: son art, son ouevre. 2 vols. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 575.

Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne: His Life and Art. Translated by Harold L. van Doren. New York: Nicholas Brown, 1923, ill. opp. 148.

Wattenmaker, Richard J. and Anne Distel. Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation: Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Early Modern. New York: Alfred A. Knopf in association with Lincoln University Press, 1993, 138, 139 ill.

Exhibition History

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National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 2-August 15, 1993; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, November 6, 1993-January 2, 1994; National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, January 21-April 3, 1994; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, April 24-August 16, 1994; Art Gallery of Ontario, September 17-December 31, 1994; Philadelphia Museum of Art, January 29-April 9, 1995; Haus der Kunst, Munich, June 23-October 22, 1995, "Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation: Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Early Modern" [with title Woman in a Red-Striped Dress (Portrait de femme), 1892-1896].

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Paul Cézanne

Portrait of a Woman (Portrait de femme)

c. 1899. Oil on canvas

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