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Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)
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Portrait of a Peasant, c. 1900
Paul Cézanne
French, 1839
- 1906
oil on canvas
92.7 x 73.7 cm
Purchased 1950
National Gallery of Canada (no. 5769)
In 1861 Cézanne abandoned law studies and moved to Paris, where he met the future Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro. He rarely hired professional models, but relied instead on close friends, family members, or the anonymous citizens of his hometown of Aix-en-Provence in the south of France. The model for "Portrait of a Peasant" may have worked for Cézanne as a gardener. His heavy coat and hat suggest that it was painted during the late fall or winter. With its symmetry of line and careful layering of colour, this otherwise mundane subject takes on a calm monumentality.
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