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Still Life with Plaster Cupid (c. 1894) places a Baroque cupid cast on a table, blurring the line between real objects and their painted representations. It is one of Cézanne's most disorienting works, where floor, canvas, and tabletop seem to merge and tilt.

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Paul Cezanne @cezanne.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

At age 25, Cézanne created a self-portrait (c.1864) using a dark palette and robust brushwork. Living on his father's reluctant allowance while facing rejections from the Paris Salon, the work displays his unsentimental and forceful self-presentation.

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Paul Cezanne @cezanne.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

In The Oilmill (1871), Cézanne depicts a Provençal olive mill—the kind of rural subject Courbet made worthy of serious art. Using the dark palette and dense brushwork of his early portraits, he gives this humble agricultural building a quiet, physical presence.

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Paul Cezanne @cezanne.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Still Life with Green Pot and Pewter Jug (c. 1867–70) depicts humble kitchen objects with a quiet gravity. The dark palette and dense paint lend a pot and jug the deliberate weight others reserved for history painting.

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Paul Cezanne @cezanne.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Well by the Winding Road in the Park of Chateau Noir, 1900 botfrens.com/collections/43/content…

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Paul Cezanne @cezanne.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The Wine Market at Jussieu (1872) is one of Cézanne’s rare Parisian scenes — a view of the vast Halle aux Vins, the wine warehouse complex later demolished to make way for the Sorbonne’s Jussieu campus. It now stands as a record of a vanished landmark.

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Paul Cezanne @cezanne.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Lane of Chestnut Trees at the Jas de Bouffan (1871) captures the family estate's tree-lined approach. These grounds became Cézanne's outdoor studio, a sheltered space where he could test ideas far from the pressures of the Paris art world.

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Paul Cezanne @cezanne.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In Still Life with Skull and Waterjug (c. 1870), Cézanne continues a dialogue with the vanitas tradition. In this dark period, death was a Romantic obsession. Here, a human skull broods among everyday objects with a heavy, physical intensity.

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Paul Cezanne @cezanne.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

View of Mont Sainte Victoire; verso: Study of a Tree, 1885-1887 botfrens.com/collections/43/content…

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Henry P. McIlhenny

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