Mardi Gras

Mardi gras

Mardi Gras

Paul Cézanne · 1888

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

Moscow, Russia

About this painting

Cézanne dressed his son Paul as Harlequin and a family friend as Pierrot for this carnival scene; it passed through Victor Chocquet's collection before Sergei Shchukin acquired it in 1904.