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1887, Paul Cezanne, Paul Cezanne, the Artist's Son -- National Gallery of Art (Washington)

From the exhibition label: Cézanne doted on his only child, whom he drew frequently in sketchbooks and painted a half-dozen times. In the last painting he made of him, Paul is dressed like an adult, and although he looks out with an air of self-satisfaction, the jacket and hat, both slightly too small, suggest a youth still growing. Paul’s bowler hat is similar to one worn by Cézanne in an earlier self-portrait, on view in the third room of the exhibition. At right is the edge of a mirror, perhaps one that Cézanne used while making his self-portraits.

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Uploaded on August 26, 2019
Taken on April 28, 2018