Still Life in Watercolors
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Figure 13<br />
Paul Cezanne<br />
Madame Cezanne with<br />
Hortensias, c. 1885<br />
Watercolor and graphite<br />
on paper, 30.5 x<br />
46 cm (12 x i8Ve <strong>in</strong>.)<br />
Private collection<br />
which a connection between the biographical and the still-life subject occurs. This<br />
draw<strong>in</strong>g-and-watercolor page is not a still life per se, but it br<strong>in</strong>gs the subjects of portrait<br />
and floral still life <strong>in</strong> conjunction with each other. Drawn and pa<strong>in</strong>ted just prior<br />
to the time that Cezanne's home life was regularized by marriage, legitimization of<br />
his son, the death of his father, and his com<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>to property, it suggests the miss<strong>in</strong>g<br />
l<strong>in</strong>k between the processes of the studio and the familiarities of the house, the greenhouse,<br />
and the bed, as well as the relationship between <strong>in</strong>timate and dispassionate<br />
observation. Unusually, it looks like a k<strong>in</strong>d of tribute or love letter, although of course<br />
it may have been noth<strong>in</strong>g of the sort. The dim<strong>in</strong>ution of Hortense's head <strong>in</strong> relation<br />
30<br />
CEZANNE IN THE STUDIO