# The Artist's Father, Reading "L'Événement"

- By: Paul Cezanne (French, 1839 - 1906)
- Date: 1866
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: overall: 198.5 x 119.3 cm (78 1/8 x 46 15/16 in.) ; framed: 224.2 x 144.8 x 10.1 cm (88 1/4 x 57 x 4 in.)
- Culture: French
- Credit line: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.52085.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/nga/866a1a6c-2e3e-452c-ad91-5b2339e56da2/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)