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Harlequin
Artist: Paul Cezanne (French, 1839-1906)
Date: 1888-1890
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, United States
Description
Cézanne painted the austere and elegant Harlequin, one of four costume pieces including a Mardi Gras showing Harlequin and Pierrot and three variants focusing on Harlequin, between 1888 and 1890. The artist's son Paul posed for Harlequin. Sensitively portrayed in Mardi Gras, his face in Harlequin was replaced by an impassive mask, a further, more abstract stage in Cézanne's development of the theme. Harlequin's traditional diamond patterned costume, bicorn hat, and the wooden sword that denoted his buffoonery have appealed to artists from the eighteenth century to the twentieth, and the character appears in Watteau's Italian Comedians and Picasso's Family of Saltimbanques. The opulent red and blue color scheme and lush surface texture are appropriate to Harlequin's theatrical origin, yet Cézanne emphasized the remoteness of the solitary figure.
I saw this on twitter and I have to share with y'all. Shout out to when Anthony was King of Mardi Grass 👏🏾🎉🎉🎉🎉
Mardi Gras Umbrella Parade - Fat Tuesday celebrations, Hastings, East Sussex, February 19th 2023
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Rue Ste. Anne in the French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Rue Ste. Anne in the French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Rue Ste. Anne in the French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA