Sitter is Michelangelo di Rosa, a professional model. Cézanne portrayed him four times, two paintings and two watercolours.
Literature
R 656
Great French paintings from the Barnes Foundation, New York, 1993, pp. 114-117
Neil L. Rudenstine, The house of Barnes, Philadelphia, 2012, plate 2
Other works by Paul Cezanne
Christ in Limbo
c. 1869
c. 1869
House and tree, L'Hermitage
c. 1874
c. 1874
L'hermitage at Pontoise
1881
1881
Winter landscape, Giverny
1894
1894