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

Artist: Paul Cézanne (French, Aix-en-Provence 1839–1906 Aix-en-Provence)

Title: Still Life with Jar, Cup, and Apples

Date: ca. 1877

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 23 7/8 x 29 in. (60.6 x 73.7 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929

Accession Number: 29.100.66


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Cézanne painted still lifes throughout his career, often using them for formal and technical experimentation. The distinctive olive-hued wallpaper in the background of this painting appears, with minor variations, in four other still lifes by Cézanne, as well as in two figure paintings he made about 1877. The wallpaper apparently hung in a room in the Paris apartment that the artist occupied intermittently from about 1877 until 1879.

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