Mercury (after Pigalle)
Paul Cezanne · 1885/1895 · Graphite on ivory wove paper (recto); graphite with touches of watercolor on ivory wove paper (verso)
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Mercury (after Pigalle) is a public-domain drawing by Paul Cezanne, dated 1885/1895. Graphite on ivory wove paper (recto); graphite with touches of watercolor on ivory wove paper (verso). The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Mercury (after Pigalle)” (1885/1895) is built the way Cézanne built landscape, still life, and portrait: small planes of color, often the mountain Sainte-Victoire or a few ordinary objects.
About the artist
Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) was a French painter who rebuilt landscape, still life, and portrait out of small planes of color. Later artists treated that construction as a start toward Cubism.
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