Still Life with Apples and Pears by Cezanne in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2009

Artist: Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906)

Title: Still Life with Apples and Pears

Date: ca. 1891–92

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 17 5/8 x 23 1/8 in. (44.8 x 58.7 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960

Accession Number: 61.101.3

On View

Gallery Label:

Cézanne once proclaimed, "With an apple I want to astonish Paris," and he succeeded, even in his most deceptively simple still lifes, to dazzle and delight. Turning to the Provençal apples and Beurré Diel pears, grown locally not far from the family's estate near Aix, he dispensed with traditional one-point perspective and examined the fruit, plates, and table from various viewpoints-straight on, above, and sideways.

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