Madame Cezanne (Hortense Fiquet, 1850?1922) in a Red Dress, 1888?90, Oil on canvas, 45 7/8 x 35 1/4 in. (116. 5 x 89. 5 cm), Paintings, Paul Cezanne (French, Aix-en-Provence 1839?1906 Aix-en-Provence), Of the four portraits that Cezanne painted of his wife wearing a shawl-collared red dress, this is the only one to show her in an elaborately furnished interior. Seated in a high-backed yellow chair and wedged between well-placed props that seem to bend to her form and shift to her weight, Madame Cezanne is the lynchpin of a tilting, spatially complex composition