Paul Cézanne
The artist's father reading "L'Événement"
1866198.5 x 119.3 cm
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
R 101
Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 743
Literature
Joachim Pissarro, Pioneering modern painting, New York/London, 2005, fig. 23
André Dombrowski, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry (eds.), Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation, New York, 2021, p. 23, fig. 7
Exhibitions
2017 Cézanne Portraits, Nr. 14
2006 Cézanne in Provence, Nr. 6
2005 Pioneering modern painting: Cézanne & Pissarro, 1865-1885, Nr. 2
1988 Cezanne. The Early Years 1859-1872, Nr. 21
Provenance
With Ambroise Vollard (1867-1939), Paris
Auguste Pellerin (1952-1929), Paris
by inheritance to René Lecomte, Paris
Lecomte family collection
Mme. Louis de Chaisemartin, née Germaine Charlotte Lecomte
sold 1970 through Hector Brame, Paris to NGA
Other works by Paul Cezanne
Still life with a plaster Cupid
1894-95
1894-95
House and tree, L'Hermitage
c. 1874
c. 1874
Three skulls on a oriental rug
1904
1904
Trees and rocks in the park of the Château Noir
c. 1904
c. 1904
Antony Valabrègue
1866
1866