Marie-Hortense Fiquet

This art school was used by a number of major artists as a place to meet each other and to paint the models who worked there.

They started a relationship and when the Franco-Prussian War broke out in 1871, they left Paris together for L'Estaque in the south of France.

Afraid of offending his father, Louis-Auguste Cézanne, a well-to-do banker, and compromising his allowance, he went to great lengths to conceal his liaison with Fiquet.

[2] Fiquet and Cézanne married on 28 April 1886, in the presence of the artist's parents, though by that time he had publicly said that he no longer had any feelings for her.

[6] Hortense may have provided inspiration for a character in L'Œuvre, an Émile Zola novel which appeared in serial form the year before the Cézannes' marriage.

Paul Cézanne (1839–1906), Hortense Cézanne in a Red Dress, c.1890, São Paulo Museum of Art
Madame Cézanne (Hortense Fiquet, 1850–1922) in a Red Dress (1888-90), oil on canvas, 116.5 x 89.5 cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York