Apples and Oranges
About the painting
Still Life with Apples and Oranges (French: Nature morte aux pommes et aux oranges) is a still-life oil painting dating from c. 1899 by the French artist Paul Cézanne. It is currently housed at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
This canvas was inspired by Still Life with Curtain and Flowered Pitcher, painted a few months earlier with the same objects and now kept at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.
Particulars
- Accession number
- RF 1972
Meanwhile, in the life of Paul Cézanne
The whole life25 October 1897
Death of His Mother
The artist's mother, Anne-Élisabeth-Honorine Aubert, died.
November 1899
Sale of the Jas de Bouffan
At his sister's insistence he sold the deserted Jas de Bouffan estate and moved to a small town apartment at 23 rue Boulegon in Aix; a planned purchase of the Château Noir fell through. He hired a housekeeper, Madame Brémond, who cared for him until his death.
1901–1903
The Studio on the Chemin des Lauves
In 1901 he bought a plot of land north of Aix, in 1902 built a studio there to his own specifications (now the Atelier de Cézanne), and moved in in 1903; a long narrow slot was cut into the wall to admit natural light for the large "Bathers."
