Banks of the Seine at Médan
Paul Cezanne
c. 1885/1890
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 73 x 92.3 cm (28 3/4 x 36 5/16 in.) framed: 120 x 101.3 x 10.8 cm (47 1/4 x 39 7/8 x 4 1/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
Accession Number
1970.17.21
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 ...