L'Après-midi à Naples
Afternoon in Naples | |
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French: L'Après-midi à Naples | |
Artist | Paul Cézanne |
Year | c. 1875 |
Type | oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 37 cm × 45 cm (15 in × 18 in) |
Location | National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
L'Après-midi à Naples (Afternoon in Naples) is an oil-on-canvas painting executed c. 1875 by the French artist Paul Cézanne. The work is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.[1]
The art dealer Ambroise Vollard related that the title for the painting "L'Apres Midi à Naples" was proposed to Cézanne by his friend the landscape painter Antoine Guillemet. There are two known preliminary sketches for the painting.[2]
The work depicts a naked male-female couple in bed while a servant is seen arriving with a teapot. The painting's dramatis personae and arrangement of figures is said to have been influenced by the work of Eugène Delacroix. The fact that the afternoon is given over to carnality is said to signify that Italy was seen as a place of taking pleasure and Naples was most prominent on that map of indulgence.[3]
The National Gallery of Australia also owns Lucian Freud's After Cézanne (2000) created by the later painter in response to this work.[4]
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- The Negro Scipion (1867)
- The Overture to Tannhäuser (1869)
- L'Estaque, Melting Snow (c. 1871)
- The Hanged Man's House (1873)
- L'Après-midi à Naples (c. 1876)
- The Eternal Feminine (c. 1877)
- View of Auvers-sur-Oise (1879–80)
- Three Bathers (1879-1882)
- Portrait of Louis Guillaume (1879–1882)
- Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley (1882–1885)
- Chestnut Trees and Farm at Jas de Bouffan (c. 1884)
- Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from Bellevue (1885)
- House in Provence (1885)
- Chestnut Trees and Farm at Jas de Bouffan (c. 1886)
- Mont Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine (c. 1887)
- Portrait of Madame Cézanne with Loosened Hair (1883–1887)
- The Banks of the Marne (1888)
- Pierrot and Harlequin (1888-1890)
- Still Life with Peaches and Pears (1888-1890)
- View of the Domaine Saint-Joseph (late 1880s)
- The Basket of Apples (c. 1893)
- Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier (1893–1894)
- The Boy in the Red Vest (1894–1895)
- Portrait of Gustave Geffroy (1895)
- Bridge Across a Pond (1895-1898)
- Seated Peasant (c. 1892-1896)
- Portrait of Ambroise Vollard (1899)
- Pipe Smoker Leaning on a Table (1895-1900)
- Women Bathing (c. 1900)
- Lady in Blue (c. 1900)
- Pyramid of Skulls (1901)
- Forest (1902–1904)
- The Bunch of Flowers (1902-1904)
- The Bathers (1898–1905)
- Still Life with Teapot (1902–1906)
- La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du bosquet du Château Noir (1904)
- The Card Players (1890–1895)
- Mont Sainte-Victoire (1904-1906)
- Marie-Hortense Fiquet (model and wife)
- Homage to Cézanne (1900 painting)
- The Impressionists (2006 series)
- Cézanne and I (2016 film)
- Cézanne (crater)
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