Woman at Her Toilette

Paul Cézanne, French, 1839 - 1906

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about 1895

Graphite and watercolor on paper

Sheet: 6 1/4 × 5 1/4 in. (15.8 × 13.3 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Josephine P. and Ivan Albright, Class of 1978H, in honor of Churchill P. Lathrop

W.978.175

Geography

Place Made: France, Europe

Period

19th century

Object Name

Watercolor

Research Area

Watercolor

Not on view

Inscriptions

On reverse: details of a landscape, in graphite, cut off on lower right with "93x26" On reverse of mat, in graphite, upper center: Cezanne. From A.H. Patterson's Collection bought from Alice Roullier Collection Label on back of frame: The Art Institute of Chicago

Course History

ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Katie Hornstein, Jane Carroll, Winter 2013

ARTH 51, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Katie Hornstein, Fall 2012

SART 15, Drawing I, Colleen Randall, Winter 2013

SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, Drawing III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2012

SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, Drawing III, Jennifer Caine, Spring 2013

ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Katie Hornstein, Jane Carroll, Winter 2013

ARTH 51, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Katie Hornstein, Fall 2012

SART 15, Drawing I, Colleen Randall, Fall 2013

SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, Drawing III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2013

ARTH 7, Paris in the 19th Century, Kristin O'Rourke, Winter 2014

SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II/III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2014

SART 15, Drawing I, Karol Kawiaka, Fall 2014

ARTH 7.2, Paris in the Nineteenth Century, Kristin O'Rourke, Winter 2015

SART 15, Drawing I, Colleen Randall, Spring 2015

SART 15.01, Drawing I, Esme Thompson, Fall 2020

ARTH 7.02, Paris in the 19th Century, Kristin O'Rourke, Spring 2022

Art History 7.02, Paris in the 19th Century, Kristin O'Rourke, Spring 2023

Studio Art 15.02, Drawing I, Daniele Genadry, Summer 2023

Exhibition History

Acquisitions 1974-1978, Jaffe-Friede, Strauss and Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 8-January 21, 1979.

An Introduction of the History of Art from the Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth Century, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 12-March 15, 1992.

Drawings at Dartmouth, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 28- November 28, 1988.

Flesh and Desire [curated by Art History II Professors Jane Carroll and Katie Hornstein], Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth Collection January 7-March 4, 2013.

Manet and His Time, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ArtH 87, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-July 9, 1994.

Reality and its Alternatives, Art History 2, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 4-March 13, 2005.

Rococo to Modernism: European Drawings and Watercolors from the Permanent Collection and Dartmouth's Alumni, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 30-May 30, 2004.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 19--?

Publication History

Richard H. Kendall, Cezanne by Himself, Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1988, p. 231, ill., p. 316.

Treasures of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, New York: Hudson Hill Press, 1985, p.98.

John Rewald, Paul Cezanne: The Watercolors, Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1983, p. 180, no. 388, ill.

Lionello Venturi, Cezanne: son art-son oeuvre, Paris, 1936, vol. 2, p. 279, no. 879.

Georges Riviere, Le maitre Paul Cezanne, Paris: H. Floury, 1923, p. 145, ill.

T. Barton Thurber, European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, p.197, ill., fig. 1.

Nancy Ireson and Sylvie Patry and André Dombrowsk, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation, New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2021, pp. 127-133, ill. p. 131, fig. 10.

Provenance

Collection of the artist, Paris,1895-1906; collection of the artist's son, Paul Cezanne, Paris, 1906-1930; Wildenstein Gallery, New York, New York; dates unknown; Alice Roullier Gallery, Chicago, dates unknown; Patterson family (possibly Joseph Medill Patterson, 1879-1946), Chicago, dates unknown; Josephine Medill Patterson Albright (1913-1996) and Ivan Albright (1897-1983), Woodstock, Vermont, given to present collection, 1978.

Catalogue Raisonne

Venturi, no. 879; Rewald, no. 388.

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