Still Life with Milk Jug and Fruit
c. 1900
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 45.8 x 54.9 cm (18 1/16 x 21 5/8 in.) framed: 71.1 x 80 x 8.2 cm (28 x 31 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the W. Averell Harriman Foundation in memory of Marie N. Harriman
Accession Number
1972.9.5
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 ...