![The Artist's Father and Objects on a Mantel [verso], Paul Cezanne, Public domain](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/fc4ad648-00f8-4d21-8ed2-31762f535ebb/full/!1600,1600/0/default.jpg)
The Artist's Father and Objects on a Mantel [verso]
Paul Cezanne · 1877/1881 · graphite on wove paper (sketchbook page)
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About this picture
The Artist's Father and Objects on a Mantel [verso] is a public-domain drawing by Paul Cezanne, dated 1877/1881. Graphite on wove paper (sketchbook page). The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“The Artist's Father and Objects on a Mantel [verso]” (1877/1881) 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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