Seated Peasant
Paul Cézanne · ca. 1892–96 · Oil on canvas
Public domain
Marked public domain in The Met Collection API (isPublicDomain).
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About this picture
Seated Peasant is a public-domain painting by Paul Cézanne, dated ca. 1892–96. Oil on canvas. The file comes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“Seated Peasant” (ca. 1892–96) 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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