Antoine Dominique Sauveur Aubert (born 1817), the Artist's Uncle, as a Monk

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Artist/Creator (1)	Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906)
Artist/Creator (1).Nationality	French
Artist/Creator (1).Role	artist
Title/Caption	Antoine Dominique Sauveur Aubert (born 1817), the Artist's Uncle, as a Monk
Date of Work	1866
Notes	In the fall of 1866, Cezanne painted several portraits of his maternal uncle, Dominique Aubert. He was not a monk, but simply posed in a Dominican habit at the artist's request. In the mid-1860s, the young Cezanne applied paint thickly with a palette knife in order to emulate the paintings of his hero Courbet.
Technique/Process	Painting: paintings
Materials/Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	25 5/8 x 21 1/2 in. (65.1 x 54.6 cm)
Period	Nineteenth century
Culture	French
Location.Current Site/City & Country	New York (N.Y.)
Location.Current Repository	Metropolitan Museum of Art
Repository Notes	The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg/Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 1993/2002
Subject	Painting, French Painting, Modern (period) Painting, 19th century Figures, male Monks in art
Publisher	Metropolitan Museum of Art
Publisher.Location	New York (N.Y.)
Credit Line	Image [copyright] The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Reference Number	Met-3197
Collection Title	Painting (Art and Art History Department images)
Collection Information	Collection administered by Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library (402) 472-1193
Copyright Information	http://contentdm.unl.edu/ah_copyright.html

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