Paul Cézanne: Boy in a Red Vest (Le Garçon au gilet rouge), Paul Cézanne, 1888–1890, Oil on canvas, Cézanne lived in an apartment on the Ile Saint-Louis in Paris between 1888 and 1890. This painting of an Italian boy is one of the many figural works he produced at that location. While we know the boy's identity—he was a professional model named Michelangelo de Rosa who posed for Cézanne several times—the artist didn't intend this as a portrait in the traditional sense. Rather, the painting is perhaps better understood as a study in human psychology and emotion. Shoulders slumped, mouth turned

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