Louis Guillaume

Paul Cézanne, 1879–1890

Shown from the chest up, a young boy wearing an aquamarine-blue jacket sits facing us in this vertical portrait painting. His body is slightly angled to our right and he looks just over our right shoulder. He has close-cropped, dark hair. His features and clothing are painted in patchworks of colors. For example, his pale face is painted with swipes of peach, straw yellow, stone blue, and olive green, especially around his large, dark eyes and small, cherry-red mouth. The scarf knotted around his neck is painted with daubs of light and azure blue, teal, putty gray, and white. His voluminous jacket has touches of red, blue, and lighter shades of green. He sits in a corner with walls washed with shades of aqua and turquoise. The rail of a brown chair curves behind his right shoulder, on our left, and is cut off by the left edge of the canvas. A cluster of darker green, leaf-like shapes suggest a design on the wall to our right.
Nghệ sĩ
Paul Cézanne
Niên đại
1879–1890
Loại
Painting
Kỹ thuật
oil on canvas
Kích thước
55.9 × 46.7 cm
Bộ sưu tập
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Giấy phép
Phạm vi công cộng, CC0

Mô tả hình ảnh

Shown from the chest up, a young boy wearing an aquamarine-blue jacket sits facing us in this vertical portrait painting. His body is slightly angled to our right and he looks just over our right shoulder. He has close-cropped, dark hair. His features and clothing are painted in patchworks of colors. For example, his pale face is painted with swipes of peach, straw yellow, stone blue, and olive green, especially around his large, dark eyes and small, cherry-red mouth. The scarf knotted around his neck is painted with daubs of light and azure blue, teal, putty gray, and white. His voluminous jacket has touches of red, blue, and lighter shades of green. He sits in a corner with walls washed with shades of aqua and turquoise. The rail of a brown chair curves behind his right shoulder, on our left, and is cut off by the left edge of the canvas. A cluster of darker green, leaf-like shapes suggest a design on the wall to our right.

Paul Cézanne