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Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906)
Madame Cézanne (née Hortense Fiquet, 1850–1922) in the Conservatory
1891
Oil on canvas
36 1/4 x 28 3/4 in. (92.1 x 73 cm)
Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960
61.101.2
Cézanne met Hortense Fiquet, a former artist's model, about 1869, but they did not marry until 1886. By that date, their son, Paul, was fourteen. According to him, this portrait was painted in 1891 in the conservatory of Jas de Bouffan, the Cézanne family estate, near Aix-en-Provence. Of the more than two dozen paintings for which Hortense posed, this unfinished canvas offers compelling insight into Cezanne's working method.