1895, Paul Cezanne, Woman with a Coffeepot -- Musée d'Orsay (Paris)
From the NGA exhibition label: The plain face, no-nonsense costume, and large, rough hands evocative of manual labor do nothing to diminish the stately presence of this unknown woman from Aix. She is one of the few sitters in a well-defined environment: the coffee press and cup resting on an oilcloth-covered table point to a kitchen, perhaps in the Cézanne family house. An emphasis on geometrical shapes — the cylindrical cafetière and cup, the rectangular panels of doors — is tempered by softer passages such as the wallpaper of cascading flowers.
1895, Paul Cezanne, Woman with a Coffeepot -- Musée d'Orsay (Paris)
From the NGA exhibition label: The plain face, no-nonsense costume, and large, rough hands evocative of manual labor do nothing to diminish the stately presence of this unknown woman from Aix. She is one of the few sitters in a well-defined environment: the coffee press and cup resting on an oilcloth-covered table point to a kitchen, perhaps in the Cézanne family house. An emphasis on geometrical shapes — the cylindrical cafetière and cup, the rectangular panels of doors — is tempered by softer passages such as the wallpaper of cascading flowers.