Still Life with a Ginger Jar and Eggplants

Paul Cézanne

1893–94 · Oil on canvas · European Paintings

For this commanding still life, with its richly orchestrated play of overlapping shapes, patterns, colors, and textures, Cézanne relied on a stock of familiar objects. The raffia-corded ginger jar, for example, is featured in more than a dozen compositions, including three of comparable verve dating to the early 1890s.

Artist

Paul Cézanne

Date

1893–94

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

European Paintings

Credit line

Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960