(b. 1839, Aix-en-Provence, d. 1906, Aix-en-Provence)
Louis-Auguste Cézanne, the Artist's Father, Reading the "L'Événement"
1866
Oil on canvas, 200 x 120 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
The portrait of Louis-Auguste Cézanne as an old, serious and dignified man reveals nothing of the artist's humiliating dependence on his father until the latter's death.
