Madame Cézanne

Cézanne is perhaps best-known for his still life and landscape paintings. However, you might not know that his paintings of people were critically acclaimed as well. Most of Cezanne’s figure paintings feature his wife, Hortense Fiquet Cezanne, who he painted more than any other model or even himself.

It all started in a Parisian art school called Academie Suisse, a place where many notable artists gathered to paint models who sat for them. Cezanne and Fiquet met in 1869 when Fiquet was working as a bookseller and modelling for artists at the school part-time. A relationship developed and when the Franco-Prussain War broke out in 1871, they left Paris and lived together at L’Estague in the south of France.

Cezanne concealed his relationship with Fiquet for some time, fearing it would jeopardise the allowance paid to him by his father, Louis-Auguste, a successful banker. Finally, Cezanne and Fiquet married in 28 April 1886, four years after their son was born.

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