Hidden beneath an 1865 still life titled “Still Life with Bread and Eggs,” the Cincinnati Art Museum (CAM) has discovered what may be one of the Post-Impressionist painter’s earliest self-portraits
Hidden beneath Paul Cézanne’s 1865 Still Life with Bread and Eggs, the Cincinnati Art Museum (CAM) has discovered what may be one of the Post-Impressionist painter’s earliest self-portraits.
There are few self-portraits from this period of Cezanne’s, but the museum believes this may be one of his earliest.
The painting has been in CAM’s collection since 1955. It went on display last spring and was then examined for possible conservation by head conservator Serena Urry.
Urry noticed that the cracks in the canvas—typical of works of this age—rather than being scattered, were concentrated in two places. In addition, they seemed to reveal white color underneath.
The conservator told CNN that the model’s position is an indication that he was painting himself; when he painted portraits of others, the model usually faces straight ahead, while here he sits at an angle.
The newly discovered work may depict Cézanne in his mid-thirties, decades before he developed his ink and began painting the idyllic French countryside. At the time, the artist was deep in his so-called “dark period”.
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