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| Antoine Dominique Sauveur Aubert (born 1817), the Artist's Uncle, as a Monk |
Artist:Paul Cézanne (French, Aix-en-Provence 1839–1906 Aix-en-Provence)
Date:1866
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:25 5/8 x 21 1/2 in. (65.1 x 54.6 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 1993, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002
In the fall of 1866 Cézanne painted nine portraits of his maternal uncle, Dominique Aubert. The forty-nine-year-old bailiff indulged his nephew with multiple sittings and agreed to pose in various costumes. Whereas he is shown here in the habit of a Dominican monk, in another likeness (53.140.1) he wears a tasseled cap and robe.
In the mid-1860s the young Cézanne applied paint thickly with a palette knife in emulation of his hero Courbet.
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