Woman at Her Toilette
Paul Cézanne, French, 1839 - 1906
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
Studio Art 15.03, Drawing I, Andrew Shea, Fall 2023
Art History 7.02, Paris in the 19th Century, Kristin O'Rourke, Spring 2024
Art History 41.02, 20th Century Art: European 1900-1945, Katie Hornstein, Summer 2024
Art History 41.02, 20th Century Art: European 1900-1945, Katie Hornstein, Summer 2024
Art History 41.02, 20th Century Art: European 1900-1945, Katie Hornstein, Summer 2024
Studio Art 20.01, Studio Art 71.01, Drawing II, III, Daniele Genadry, Summer 2024
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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