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Portrait of Anthony Valabrègue
Paul Cézanne · 1870
J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
About this painting
Cézanne applied paint with a palette knife in thick layers for this portrait of his childhood friend, poet Antony Valabrègue — the same combative technique a Salon juror once said looked "painted with a pistol."
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
60 × 50.2 cm (23.6 × 19.8 in)
Painted at
Paris, France
Current location
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
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Édouard Manet