Posted: 04 Jun 2025 by PML
The true identity of this young woman has only recently been established; she is almost certainly Christina Schweitzer of Nuremberg, and her assured and self-contained likeness is one half of a pair of marriage portraits, both painted in 1547
Posted: 09 Apr 2025 by
The poet and art critic Antony Valabrègue was, like Cézanne, born in Aix-en-Provence and grew up alongside the painter (although he was five years younger). He sat for him in his twenties, the most notable early portrait pre-dating this one by three or four years, and bursting into the presence of the Paris Salon admissions jury with what must have been an extreme case of the shock of the new.