Detail of Still Life with a Ginger Jar and Eggplants in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2009

Artist: Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906)

Title: Still Life with a Ginger Jar and Eggplants

Date: 1893–94

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28 1/2 x 36 in. (72.4 x 91.4 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960

Accession Number: 61.101.4

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For this commanding still life, with its richly orchestrated play of overlapping shapes, patterns, colors, and textures, Cézanne relied on a stock of familiar objects. The raffia-corded ginger jar, for example, is featured in more than a dozen compositions, including three of comparable verve dating to the early 1890s.

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