1875, Paul Cézanne, Self-Portrait -- National Gallery of Art (Washington) (special exhibition)
From the exhibition label: The landscape in the background is a copy of a painting of the River Seine in the center of Paris by the impressionist artist Armand Guillaumin, with whom Cézanne shared a studio at this time. Cézanne painted the landscape in reverse, as he saw it behind his reflection in a mirror while he worked. Although Cézanne exhibited twice with the impressionists in the 1870s, he was less interested in their goal of capturing fleeting atmospheric effects than he was in conveying a sense of solidity and structure in the subjects he painted.
1875, Paul Cézanne, Self-Portrait -- National Gallery of Art (Washington) (special exhibition)
From the exhibition label: The landscape in the background is a copy of a painting of the River Seine in the center of Paris by the impressionist artist Armand Guillaumin, with whom Cézanne shared a studio at this time. Cézanne painted the landscape in reverse, as he saw it behind his reflection in a mirror while he worked. Although Cézanne exhibited twice with the impressionists in the 1870s, he was less interested in their goal of capturing fleeting atmospheric effects than he was in conveying a sense of solidity and structure in the subjects he painted.