Paul Cézanne - Boy in a red vest 1888

Tall trees at the Jas-de-Bouffan 1887 The blue vase 1887 Bank of the Oise 1888 Boy in a red vest 1888 Bridge over the Marne 1888 Pierrot and Harlequin Mardi Gras 1888 Still Life flowers in a vase 1888
Boy in a red vest 1888

Boy in a red vest 1888
89x72cm oil/canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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From National Gallery of Art, Washington:
This is, at once, an astonishingly modern painting and one that reflects Cézanne's admiration for and connection to the past. He said himself that he "wanted to make of impressionism something solid and durable like the art of the museums." The boy's pose is that of an academic life study, and for some art historians it has recalled the languid elegance of 16th–century portraiture. As a young man in Paris, Cézanne had learned his art not only from his impressionist colleagues but also through studying old masters in the Louvre.