Study for L'Autopsie
Paul Cezanne · 1867/69 · Black chalk with stumping on tan laid paper
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Study for L'Autopsie is a public-domain drawing by Paul Cezanne, dated 1867/69. Black chalk with stumping on tan laid paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Study for L'Autopsie” (1867/69) 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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