The Artist's Father, Reading "L'Événement"
Paul Cezanne
1866
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 198.5 x 119.3 cm (78 1/8 x 46 15/16 in.) framed: 224.2 x 144.8 x 10.1 cm (88 1/4 x 57 x 4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Accession Number
1970.5.1
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 ...