Focus on Portrait of Madame Cézanne with Loosened Hair and explore the Dating.
Biographers do not agree on the picture's dating and position within the series. Lionello Venturi dated it from 1883–87, and Georges Rivière placed it in the mid-1870s. For reasons of style John Rewald believed the painting was made in the early 1890s; the fuller form of the face may also indicate a later date, when Madame Cézanne would have been in her forties. If Rewald's date—now accepted by the Philadelphia Museum of Art—is accurate, the painting would be the last Cézanne made of Hortense, who first posed for him in 1869.
John Rewald Philadelphia Museum of Art Lionello Venturi