Guillaumin with the Hanged Man
Paul Cezanne
1873
Medium
Etching on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 15.6 × 11.6 cm (6 3/16 × 4 5/8 in.); Sheet: 26.4 × 20 cm (10 7/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
27696
About the Artist
Paul Cezanne · 1839–1906
Paul Cézanne (1839–1906), born in Aix-en-Provence to a prosperous banker father, Louis-Auguste, and mother Anne-Elisabeth-Honorine Aubert, grew up in a bourgeois family that later acquired the Jas de Bouffan estate, where he painted his earliest murals. As a youth, he formed the inseparable trio "Les Trois Inséparables" with schoolmates Émile Zola and Baptistin Baille. Despite his father's wishes ...