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Antoine Dominique Sauveur Aubert (born 1817), the Artist's Uncle, as a Monk

1866
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 823
In the fall of 1866 Cézanne painted nine portraits of his maternal uncle, Dominique Aubert. The forty-nine-year-old bailiff indulged his nephew with multiple sittings and agreed to pose in various costumes. Whereas he is shown here in the habit of a Dominican monk, in another likeness (53.140.1) he wears a tasseled cap and robe.

In the mid-1860s the young Cézanne applied paint thickly with a palette knife in emulation of his hero Courbet.

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  • Title: Antoine Dominique Sauveur Aubert (born 1817), the Artist's Uncle, as a Monk
  • Artist: Paul Cézanne (French, Aix-en-Provence 1839–1906 Aix-en-Provence)
  • Date: 1866
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 25 5/8 x 21 1/2 in. (65.1 x 54.6 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 1993, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002
  • Object Number: 1993.400.1
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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