Paul Cézanne - Madame Cezanne in the greenhouse 1892
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Madame Cezanne in the greenhouse 1892
92x73cm oil/canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
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From Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City:
Hortense Fiquet, a former artist’s model, met Cézanne about 1869; they had a son in 1872, fourteen years before they married. This painting, one of more than two dozen for which Hortense posed, is set in the conservatory of the Jas de Bouffan, the Cézanne family estate near Aix. The unfinished canvas offers a revealing glimpse into Cézanne’s working method. He placed Madame Cézanne’s carefully modeled head slightly off-center, cradled between a lush tree and a spindly plant, and then proceeded to build up the rest of the pyramidal composition, touch by exacting touch.