A bearded man with a coppery-peach completion, wearing a dark, navy-blue brimmed cap, vest, jacket, and pants sits on a wooden bench or chair against a green background in this vertical portrait. The scene is loosely painted with thick, visible brushstrokes in kelly and shamrock green, deep, midnight blue, tawny brown, and charcoal gray to create a mottled effect. The man’s body is angled to our right and he looks in that direction. His legs are crossed and are cropped below the knees by the bottom right corner of the canvas. His fingers are interlaced in his lap with one thumb hooked…
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The Gardener Vallier

Paul Cezanne (French, 1839 - 1906)

1906

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 107.4 × 74.5 cm (42 5/16 × 29 5/16 in.) ; framed: 130.81 × 97.47 × 8.89 cm (51 1/2 × 38 3/8 × 3 1/2 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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