Still-Life
by CÉZANNE, Paul, Oil on canvas, 66 x 82 cm
In 1902, C�zanne bought a plot of land on the Chemin des Lauves, on an otherwise undeveloped hillside to the north of Aix, and had a two-storey house built with a large studio, some five metres high, on the first floor. In his studio he could assemble all the objects he used for his still-lifes. The ginger jar appears in numerous paintings from the 1890s, as do the straw-cased jar, the jugs and the pitcher.
In the present still-life C�zanne shows the same object from two different viewpoints: the ginger jar is tilted forward so that we can see in through the top, but the sides of the jar are depicted frontally.