A new account of C?zanne's complex relationship with his wife, who served as the subject of some of his most iconic portraits Paul C?zanne's (1839-1906) portraits of Hortense Fiquet (1850-1922), his wife and the subject of some of his iconic portraits, rank among the most powerful of their kind in French modernism. Yet, posterity has not been kind to Madame C?zanne. She was called a distraction, blamed for her husband's "lackluster"...