The Overture to Tannhäuser is an 1869 oil-on-canvas painting by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne, now in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. Silvia Borghesi, Anna Nermin Germeyan (translator): Cézanne. Warszawa: HPS, 2006, s. 34, 35. . It came from the Moscow collection of Ivan Morozov. The painting shows two women, usually identified as Cézanne's sisters but possibly the daughters of his uncle Dominique Aubert, at the Cézanne family home near Aix-en-Provence.Gowing, Lawrence, with Adriani, Götz; Krumrine, Mary Louise; Lewis, Mary Tompkins; Patin, Sylvie; Rewald, John (1988). Cezanne: The Early Years 1859–1872. New York: Harry N. Abrams. p. 158. . Its title refers to the work played by the pianist on the left, the overture to Wagner's Tannhäuser.
See also List of paintings by Paul Cézanne
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