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
Forest scene
1900-02
1900-02
Montagne Sainte-Victoire seen from Les Lauves
1904-06
1904-06
Seated man
1905-06
1905-06
The Bibémus Quarry
c. 1895
c. 1895
Chestnut trees and farm at the Jas de Bouffon
c. 1886
c. 1886