Seated Peasant

Paul Cézanne

ca. 1892–96 · Oil on canvas · European Paintings

The mood and palette of this pensive figure study relate it to Cézanne's celebrated series of paintings showing men playing cards. This particular individual does not appear in any of those pictures, but there can be no doubt that he, like the models for the card players, was one of the workers at Jas de Bouffan, the Cézanne family estate in Aix-en-Provence.

Artist

Paul Cézanne

Date

ca. 1892–96

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

European Paintings

Credit line

The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 1997, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002