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The image shows a small sketch of a basket filled with round objects in the upper left corner of the page. The drawing is done with pencil on yellowed paper, with some light smudges and graphite lines present on the rest of the page.
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The image shows a small sketch of a basket filled with round objects in the upper left corner of the page. The drawing is done with pencil on yellowed paper, with some light smudges and graphite lines present on the rest of the page.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

Basket

Paul Cezanne

Date
1877/1900
Medium
graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 15.2 x 23.7 cm (6 x 9 5/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
1992.51.9.qqq
Credit line
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Time span
1876 to 1900
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Portfolio and series

Series
Sketchbook [1992.51.9.a-sss]

Subjects and terms

  • French
  • object
  • Fruit
  • Post-Impressionist
  • Basket
Provenance

Paul Cézanne (the artist's son), Paris; Paul Guillaume, Paris; Adrien Chappuis, Tresserve, Switzerland, 1933; Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA, 1967; gift to NGA, 1991

Inscription

by later hand, lower right in graphite: LIII; by later hand, upper right in graphite: 105

NGA object ID 76288. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.