Marie Cézanne, the Artist’s Sister, Paul Cézanne (1866)
This portrait of the artist's sister, Marie, was largely painted with a palette knife, resulting in thick strokes of color and a subtle impasto (texture). This aggressive technique was strongly influenced by Gustave Courbet, a leading painter of the previous generation. Cézanne's reliance on family as subject is underscored by the later, more restrained portrait of his mother on the back of this picture.
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