This photo provided by the Metropolitan Museum of Art shows Paul Cezanne's painting "Madame Cezanne in a Red Armchair." The painting is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The Met is opening an exhibition that focuses on the portraits Cezanne made of his most frequent model, his wife. The exhibition opens Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014, and runs through March 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Museum of Fine Arts Boston via the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Republished November 17, 2014 - 8:56 AM
Original Publication Date November 17, 2014 - 8:05 AM
NEW YORK, N.Y. - New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is opening an exhibition that focuses on the portraits Paul Cezanne made of his most frequent model — his wife.
The exhibition, "Madame Cezanne," opens Wednesday and runs through March 15.
Twenty-four of the 29 known portraits of her will be on view.
Cezanne was 30 when he met Hortense Fiquet in Paris in 1869. She was 19 and working as a bookbinder.
Cézanne kept the affair and their only child Paul a secret from his parents for fear of their disapproval. They eventually married in 1886.
It was a complicated relationship. He painted her for over 20 years but left her out of his will, leaving everything to their son.
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