# Hercules Resting, in Post-Impressionism

Paul Cézanne painted this in 1897, aged 58. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Our note:

> Cézanne made this pencil drawing in 1897 after a sculpture of Hercules at rest, one of the many works of sculpture he studied in the Louvre and in plaster casts throughout his life. Copying sculpture let him concentrate on the turning planes and volumes of the body without the distractions of a living model.

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## The work

- Date: 1897
- Medium: Graphite on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions: 19.4 × 11.8 cm (7 11/16 × 4 11/16 in.)
- Type: Drawing and Watercolor
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1998.695v
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Paul Cézanne](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/paul-cezanne), French, 1839–1906

Cézanne divided his life between Paris and his native Aix-en-Provence. Encouraged by his schoolfriend Émile Zola and later by Pissarro, with whom he painted at Pontoise and Auvers in the 1870s, he showed at the first and third Impressionist exhibitions.

13 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [More by Paul Cézanne](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/paul-cezanne?hang=749) (13 works)
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