Portrait of madame cézanne
Painter: Paul .
Date Created: Circa Provenance: Walter-Guillaume Collection. This complicated subterfuge led to separate residences, frequent and often desperate appeals for funds, and long periods of living apart, even after their marriage in Despite this seeming neglect, the portraits attest to the constancy of a relationship that was critical to the artist's practice and development. Madame Cézanne | The Metropolitan Museum of Art This portrait exhibition of paintings, drawings, and watercolors by Paul Cézanne (–) traces his lifelong attachment to Hortense Fiquet (–), his wife, the mother of his only son, and his most-painted model.
Portrait of Madame Cézanne.
61 cm × 51 cm (24 in × 20 in) Location. Featured Media. Cézanne took great pains to conceal his mistress and their only child, Paul, from his family, fearing his authoritative father's disapproval.
Cézanne painted more than two dozen portraits of his wife, Hortense, whom he first met in as a nineteen-year-old model. Exhibition Overview. PORTRAIT OF MADAME CÉZANNE Paul Cézanne painted this portrait of his wife, Hortense, almost twenty years after their first meeting. Madame Cézanne will feature 25 of the 29 known portraits of Hortense Fiquet that Cézanne painted over a period of more than 20 years, including Madame .
Details. Their story is a compelling one indeed, perhaps all the more so for the absence of its particulars. Hortense was a young artist’s . The depictions of Hortense in oil, watercolor, and graphite provide the only material clues to her partnership with Cézanne, which began in Paris in , while she was working as a bookbinder. The sensual application of paint in Hortense’s face and her inclined head counteract the insistent.
It is an exhibition not to be missed.
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Oil on canvas. Read blog posts related to this exhibition on Met Blogs. This exhibition of paintings, drawings, and watercolors by Paul Cézanne French, — traces his lifelong attachment to Hortense Fiquet French, — , his wife, the mother of his only son, and his most-painted model.
And yet the portraits are at once alluring and confounding, recording a complex working dialogue that this unprecedented exhibition and accompanying publication explore on many levels. All Past Exhibitions. Dimensions. Her expression in the painted portraits has been variously described as remote, inscrutable, dismissive, and even surly. Madame Cézanne's emotionless features, severely parted hair, folded hands, plain dress, and conventional attitude make her appear almost lifeless in this picture.
The accompanying publication details Cézanne's long-term devotion to portraying his wife, Hortense.
Portrait of Madame Cézanne - Wikipedia
Read the additional visitor guidelines. The works on view were painted over a period of more than twenty years, but despite this long liaison, Hortense Fiquet's prevailing presence is often disregarded and frequently diminished in the narrative of Cézanne's life and work. Featuring twenty-five of the artist's twenty-nine known portraits of Hortense, including Madame Cézanne in the Conservatory and Madame Cézanne in a Red Dress —90 , both from the Metropolitan Museum's collection, the exhibition explores the profound impact she had on Cézanne's portrait practice.
Paul Cézanne (French, –) Cézanne only allowed.
Portrait of Madame Cezanne, 1885 by Paul Cezanne
The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. Paul Cézanne French, — Oil on canvas. Title: Portrait of Madame Cézanne. Although the circumstances of their first encounter are unknown, an early portrait from suggests that she was modeling for Cézanne by the age of twenty-two. Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Portrait of Madame Cézanne with Loosened Hair (or Madame Cézanne with . Physical Dimensions: w x h mm.