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Yet posterity has not been kind to Madame Cézanne. She was called a distraction, blamed for her husband’s “lackluster” landscapes, and disdained for her impenetrable expression in his paintings—if she was acknowledged at all.
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Nov 20, 2014 · “Madame Cézanne,” which opened this week at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the first exhibition devoted to Paul Cézanne’s portraits of his wife.
- Pencil
- Watercolor
- Paper
Cézanne used repeated parallel or perpendicular strokes—hatching and crosshatching—to model surfaces and create a sense of volume, especially in drawings made from direct observation. Whether working from memory or from life, Cézanne employed dense scribbles to indicate shadow, loops, and spirals for foliage. He used fragmented strokes in place of...
Watercolor’s luminosity is dependent on the sheet on which it is painted, its brilliance a balance between transparent washes of pigment and the bright paper seen through. In his earliest experiments, Cézanne worked much as he did in his oil painting, applying the watercolor densely, filling in underlying pencil outlines, covering the paper comple...
Whether as a partner in creating the luminosity of watercolor, or left untouched to represent a bright spot or an element in a composition (like the label on a wine bottle), paper is a central protagonist in Cézanne’s drawing. Cézanne drew in sketchbooks and on loose sheets, using smooth and uniform paper (called “wove”) and paper with a textured...
Portrait of Madame Cézanne. 1885-1886 Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906) Cézanne only allowed those he trusted to watch him paint and confined his portrait practice to family and friends.
- Paul Cézanne (French, 1839-1906)
- Oil on canvas
- 1885-1886
- Portrait of Madame Cézanne
Mar 6, 2015 · «My first impression of Hortense Fiquet, or Madame Cézanne, is that she has the face of the disapproving old woman who lives next door to you. Her expression is similar to that of someone unaware they're having their picture taken.
Madame Cézanne (Hortense Fiquet, 1850–1922) in the Conservatory. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 826. Hortense Fiquet, a former artist’s model, met Cézanne about 1869; they had a son in 1872, fourteen years before they married.
This exhibition of paintings, drawings, and watercolors by Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906) traces his lifelong attachment to Hortense Fiquet (French, 1850–1922), his wife, the mother of his only son, and his most-painted model.
