The Gardener Vallier
Paul Cezanne
1906
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 107.4 × 74.5 cm (42 5/16 × 29 5/16 in.) framed: 130.81 × 97.47 × 8.89 cm (51 1/2 × 38 3/8 × 3 1/2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer
Accession Number
1959.2.1
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 ...