In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Peasants were a popular subject for French artists in the late 19th century. Many created romanticized depictions in which rosy-cheeked figures labor in fields saturated with golden light. Cézanne avoided such sentimentality in this painting. The subject is a gardener who worked on his father's estate outside Aix-en-Provence, where Cézanne lived and worked for many years. Cézanne rhymes nature with the gardener's body: the bush behind him forms a perfect oval frame, and the tree branches at right bend to follow his contours.
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Paul Cezanne — Boy in a Red Waistcoat
Georges Seurat — The Gardener
Paul Cezanne — The Artist's Son, Paul
Paul Gauguin — The Red Cow
Paul Cezanne — The Bend in the Road
Vincent van Gogh — The Woodcutter (after Millet)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Girl at the Foot of a Tree (Fillette
Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906) — Mount Sainte-Victoire
Vincent van Gogh — The Thresher (after Millet)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Girl at the Foot of a Tree (Fillette
Vincent van Gogh — Peasant Woman Bruising Flax (after Millet
Pablo Picasso — Woman Seated on Striped Floor
