The Artist's Father and Objects on a Mantel [verso]
Paul Cezanne
1877/1881
![The Artist's Father and Objects on a Mantel [verso] by Paul Cezanne](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/nga/thumb/the-artists-father-and-objects-on-a-mantel-verso-nga-66486.webp)
Medium
graphite on wove paper (sketchbook page)
Dimensions
overall: 12.5 x 22 cm (4 15/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Accession Number
1985.64.85.b
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 ...