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Compare the sitter’s still face with the crossed marks and blue outlines defining her hands.
Hortense Fiquet, Cézanne’s wife, appears in four related portraits. Technical examination suggests that he traced this version from the first, which had been painted from life. The repeated pose provided a structure within which he could continue adjusting color, contours, and the relationship between figure and chair.
Oil on canvas · 80.9 × 64.9 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Post-Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Madame Cezanne in a Yellow Chair
- Artist
- Paul Cézanne
- Date
- 1888–90
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 80.9 × 64.9 cm (31 13/16 × 25 9/16 in.); Framed: 106.7 × 90.2 × 11.2 cm (42 × 35 1/2 × 4 3/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Wilson L. Mead Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.