Date : between 1893 and 1895
Dimensions : 65 cm x 81 cm Material : Oil on canvas Acquisition : Wilson L. Mead Fund (1948) Post-Impressionnistes
| Hortense Friquet (1850-1922) Item 3 on 13 French Painting Painting (Portrait)
Area related France
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Paul Cézanne painted Hortense Fiquet, his companion starting in 1869 and his wife from 1886, some twenty-four times. The present work is one of a related quartet of canvases in which she is shown wearing a distinctive carmine dress and seated in a yellow chair. The largest work in this group (New York - The Metropolitan Museum of Art) is one of the artist's most elaborate portraits, incorporating a curtain, fire tongs, and the edge of a mirrored mantelpiece. In the Art Institute's example, Cézanne aimed for something more austere.
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