1877, Paul Cezanne, Madame Cezanne Sewing -- National Gallery of Art (Washington) (special exhibition)
From the exhibition label: Along with the painting of the artist’s father in the previous room, this is one of the few portraits in which Cézanne presented the subject absorbed in an activity, giving it the air of a genre scene. Hortense Fiquet sits in the same chair as she does in the adjacent painting, attending to her task with as much care and focus as the artist used to construct his composition.
1877, Paul Cezanne, Madame Cezanne Sewing -- National Gallery of Art (Washington) (special exhibition)
From the exhibition label: Along with the painting of the artist’s father in the previous room, this is one of the few portraits in which Cézanne presented the subject absorbed in an activity, giving it the air of a genre scene. Hortense Fiquet sits in the same chair as she does in the adjacent painting, attending to her task with as much care and focus as the artist used to construct his composition.