Mercury (after Pigalle)
Paul Cezanne
1885/1895
Medium
Graphite on ivory wove paper (recto); graphite with touches of watercolor on ivory wove paper (verso)
Dimensions
Max: 48.5 × 31.4 cm (19 1/8 × 12 3/8 in.)
Classification
graphite
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
22601
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 ...